“It was just a constant barrage of negativity,” a therapist testified about what she witnessed of Heather Maxine Barron’s interaction with her children.
A therapist who was sent to do an assessment at the Lancaster home of a boy less than four years before his death testified on Tuesday, Feb. 14, that she had grave concerns about the way his mother behaved toward her children.
Leiva and Barron now face a maximum of life in prison without the possibility of parole if they are convicted as charged in the non-jury trial before Superior Court Judge Sam Ohta. Social worker Shane Bulkley told the judge that Barron acknowledged she had used a belt on the children and used hot sauce as a disciplinary measure in the past, but that he and his supervisor found there wasn’t sufficient evidence to corroborate the concerns expressed by the therapist in her October 2014 hotline call.
A third social worker testified that she responded to a hotline call made about Anthony’s half-brother, Angel, in April 2015, who had told a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy that Barron caused an injury to his ear. The prosecutor said the boy was “already brain dead” and had been lying on the floor in the family’s townhouse “for at least a day, possibly more” when Barron called 911 to seek assistance for the boy, and that the two “concocted a story that Anthony Avalos had injured himself.”
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