UPDATE:: Mother Of 10-Year-Old Possibly Beaten To Death For Being Gay Charged In His MurderThe boyfriend of a Southern California woman whose 10-year-old son died last week under suspicious circumstances was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murder, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said. Anthony Avalos' death followed a dozen referrals of suspected child abuse to child welfare officials over several years.
The mother of a 10-year-old boy who was beaten to death, and whose alleged abuse may be linked to his coming out as gay, has been charged with her son’s brutal murder, prosecutors say.
Heather Barron, mother of Anthony Avalos, and her boyfriend, Kareem Leiva, have been charged with one count each of murder and torture, for allegedly beating and torturing the boy to death, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office said in a statement Friday. Prosecutors also charged Barron with one count of child abuse, and Leiva with one count of assault of a child causing death, according to the DA’s office.
Avalos died June 21 after he was found a day earlier in his home in Lancaster, near Los Angeles, suffering from life-threatening injuries and showing signs of being severely beaten, prosecutors said.
Kareem Leiva, 32, was arrested in Anthony's death after an interview with sheriff's detectives on Wednesday. The arrest came a day after county child welfare officials revealed that the boy had previously reported being beaten, locked up and not fed.
Sheriff's deputies were called to a home in Lancaster, in the high desert Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles, on June 20 after Anthony's mother called 911 to report that he had fallen down the stairs. Deputies found him unresponsive in the home and he died at a hospital the next day.
Kareem Leiva, Heather Barron's boyfriend, arrested in death of Barron's son Anthony Avalos - CBS News
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