Tag: Anthony Avalos

Mother, Boyfriend Get Life Without Parole for 10-Year-Old Boy’s Torture Killing

April 25, 2023
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LOS ANGELES—A Lancaster woman and her boyfriend who were convicted of torturing and murdering the woman’s 10-year-old son were sentenced April 25 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Heather Maxine Barron, 33, and Kareem Ernesto Leiva, 37, were convicted in a non-jury trial March 7 of first-degree murder and torture for the…

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Witness Called Hotline After Boy Reported Alleged Abuse by His Mother

February 9, 2023
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LOS ANGELES—Less than three years before his death in 2018, a 10-year-old boy told a school vice principal he had been abused by his mother, prompting a report to a child abuse hotline, the then-vice principal testified Feb. 8 in the murder trial of the boy’s mother and her boyfriend. Gia Greaux, who was a…

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Nurse: Anthony Avalos’s Mother Faked Emotions, Was In Waiting Room When He Died

February 7, 2023
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LOS ANGELES—A University of California–Los Angeles Mattel Children’s Hospital nurse testified Feb. 6 that a woman accused of joining her then-boyfriend to physically abuse the Lancaster woman’s 10-year-old son appeared to fake being emotional and was in the waiting room instead of at her child’s bedside when the boy died of his injuries in 2018….

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LA District Attorney Gascón Removes Death Penalty for Couple Charged With Murdering 10-Year-Old Boy

May 8, 2021
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The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday that District Attorney George Gascón, a Democrat, decided not to seek the death penalty in the case of a couple allegedly murdering and torturing a 10-year-old boy. The LA County DA’s office had previously announced it would seek the death penalty after Heather Maxine Barron and…

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