[Narcodran]

Disgusting. Another wacko prune picker.

[neonasafluni]

Why? No self-respecting Cali would not be drunk or on drugs?

[movlabk]

yeah, it had to be one of them. No one in their right mind would do that. Murder is always twisted, but things like this is about as bad as it gets.

[Wgnhqhlg]

Tuber, we all know bad people are every where. I do confess to enjoying a good bashing of Texas sometimes though because it can be so fun.

[heennaRaf]

Sloww, I haven't joined in a good Texas bash in a good 3-6 months. That's like eternity here on poly. Just like I haven't made primarially political threads since the 2006 election.

[mloversia]

Originally posted by Theben
The guy must've been on drugs or an alcoholic. Man witnessed beating toddler to death near Modesto identified
By Dana Hull and Kelli Phillips
Bay Area News Group
Article Launched: 06/16/2008 02:39:19 PM PDT

Authorities identified the Turlock man eyewitnesses saw punch and stomp a toddler to death on a darkened country road before being fatally shot by police as Sergio Casian Aguilar, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department announced today.

The toddler is believed to be Aguilar's 2-year-old son, according to the sheriff department's news release.

Eyewitnesses reported coming upon Aguilar attacking the boy on Saturday night. They tried to stop him as he swung and slammed the child into the asphalt behind his parked four-door Toyota pickup.

Investigators spent Father's Day trying to understand and cope with the savage attack on Bradbury Road, 10 miles west of Turlock near cow pastures and dairy farms.

The boy's beating left police and rescue workers badly shaken, said Deputy Royjindar Singh. "Why would somebody do this?" Singh said.

"In the shadows and light it looked like he had hit an animal," said Dan Robinson, chief of the Crows Landing Volunteer Fire Department, who came upon the chaos driving home from a late dinner in Turlock, in an interview with the Modesto Bee. "As we backed up again, I could see that he had blood on his arms. I could see that it was a small child."

Robinson jumped from his vehicle and confronted the man, who lunged at him. Robinson said the man wasn't screaming and wasn't loud, but was forceful, saying "demons" were in the boy.

"Give me the knife. Give me the knife," the man said as he grabbed for a pen in
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the fireman's front pocket.

"There was a total hollowness in his eyes," Robinson said, "like I could see right through to the back of his head."

An elderly couple was first on the scene, calling 911 about 10:15 p.m. to describe the terror unfolding before their eyes.

The man ripped the child out of a car seat in the back of a pickup truck, threw him to the ground and kicked and stomped him against the pavement, witnesses told deputies. At least three people yelled at the man and attempted to pull him off the boy, but were brushed back by the attacker.

Coroner's deputies believe they know the boy's name, but "due to the severity of his injuries making a visual identification is nearly impossible," Singh said.

The coroner's office will use DNA to confirm that the boy was Aguilar's son, according to the sheriff office's release. DNA samples were taken from Aguilar, the boy and the boy's mother.

Although DNA results can take up to six weeks to process, the coroner is pushing to get the results back in this case within a week.

A Stanislaus County sheriff's helicopter flying in the area on another matter arrived about six minutes after the initial 911 call.

Officers in the helicopter could see the man beating a child on the road. Because patrol deputies were still several minutes away, they decided to land in a field near the man's vehicle, Singh said.

The helicopter's tactical flight officer, a Modesto police officer, ran toward the suspect with his gun drawn, but he was unable to reach the roadway because of an electric and barbed wire fence, Singh said.

"When the flight officer first contacted the suspect and tried to get him to stop, the infant was on the ground and the suspect was kicking and stomping the child," Singh said. "The officer demanded that the man stop, but he just continued his assault."

The officer, who has not been identified, then shot the man, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The toddler was taken to Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

"Some of the key questions we're trying to answer is why this happened?" Singh said. "What was going on before the suspect left? Where was he going? Where had he been? What was going on in his life that day?"

Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson sent department employees an e-mail Sunday offering assistance to any staff member affected by the incident, Singh said.

"It does hit home, especially for the deputies with children and those officers in the helicopter that attempted to save the boy's life," he said. "This is one of the more violent scenes they've ever seen. It involves a victim who is defenseless and helpless. And it's Father's Day."

Religious nutter?

EDIT: Quoted instead of bolded.

ACK!

[Phassetus]

Originally posted by Tuberski
Religious nutter? While I thought that, I figured if I said it I'd get jumped on. But on top of that most of the time if a parent beats a child b/c of 'spiritual possession', it isn't so severe. Also chronic alcoholics can have extreme hallucinations with very violent responses.