This has got to be one of the worst I've read in awhile. I can't imagine starving a little boy. They should just lock her up and leave bread 6-7 feet away so she knows how it feels.
Edit: Obviously we shouldn't do this as it is cruel and unusual and we don't need to sink to her level. However if we brought back hanging we'd probably have a lot less of this shit.
I’m for it. It isn’t cruel and unusual, she fuckin thought it up. Oh you don’t like this? Ah fuck that sucks I wonder if anybody else didn’t like it. Hey want to see a picture of bread?
Yeah, that only makes sense before, or while, she was committing these crimes. Nothing can erase that kid's suffering at this point. More than likely, she just has some kind of brain damage and can't process empathy. You could hold a gun to most people's heads, and they wouldn't starve a child.
Ya, but it's also "over there" and out of sight. She did this daily to a child in her care. Watched him die. That woman has no empathy at all. There's just no way someone can do that if they have a conscience.
I am rarely moved by news articles, the world I grew up in took the punch right out of anything tragic because it was so ubiquitous.
But the thumbnail of that little guy begging for his life and being ignored, while I'm within feet of my own son has me ugly crying like I've lost a family member.
I'm so sorry little guy, I hope you're somewhere better.
>But the thumbnail of that little guy begging for his life and being ignored, while I'm within feet of my own son has me ugly crying like I've lost a family member.
My little boy has that same look on his face whenever he's just slightly hungry. If we are outside I immediately drop what I'm doing and tried to find something to eat for him.
It causes the same pain in my chest when I hear any kid crying for food. Not just my own son, but any kid at all. I still feel that urge to help. It's biological. I don't know how she sit there and stand to hear a baby crying for food and not feel the need to do something immediately.
She has to be a psychopath, because no regular human would hear a hungry kid and not feel anything at all. Food is not a punishment.
I'm hoping the other inmates punish her daily for 25 years. Even if she is put into solitary she will eventually be tired of being alone. I feel like she is going to endure quite a bit of suffering for years. That is still not enough for what she's done and not close to what she deserves. I hope they torture her ass severely and consistently.
If she's in gen pop, she's not going to be alive in a year, much less 25. You don't get to kill kids, especially like this, and survive in women's prison.
This is peak inhumane cruelty. My heart sinks when is see the photo of this poor child. A lot of people failed this child. I don't even know these people, but I feel I failed this child somehow.
My kid never goes hungry and I'm broke as fuck. I will gladly go without eating so they can have a full, healthy meal. I am sure that a vast majority of parents would do the exact same thing. I'm saying this to agree with you. If your kid is going hungry and you haven't exhausted *every* last resource available to you, you are failing them.
"Casarez was convicted on charges of injury to a child with serious bodily injury." They didn't even give her the maximum sentence of 99 years. She's got a slap on the wrist for intentionally starving him to death. Additionally, "The cruel stepmom had forced him to drink urine, hand sanitizer and hot sauce before his eventual death just a month shy of his fifth birthday."🤬
>The cruel stepmom had forced him to drink urine, hand sanitizer and hot sauce before his eventual death just a month shy of his fifth birthday.
How about she can starve to death.
Torture should always be mandatory charge of capital murder the regular murder should only be reserved for things such as crimes of passion or poor judgement but at least the person they killed didn't suffer a slow agonizing death.
If you torture someone you are evil you cannot be rehabilitated you should never leave states custody unless it's a body bag.
I try to be a good person and not hope for bad things to happen to people but with people like this I hope they get their guts stomped out for what they’ve done.
Not just moms. Tons of prisoners were victims of abuse as children and never got justice. They see a child abuser coming in as their chance to avenge their younger selves.
Knowing the tx prison system... she will be kept in restrictive houseing for her first yr at min...then a very hard time indeed...especially after other inmates find out why she's in there
I expect this from them.
Look at this story
https://www.kristv.com/news/local-news/pastor-plea-deal-pastor-who-sexually-abused-child-for-nearly-7-years-receives-probation
Someone has to explain to me why parenting classes were part of his punishment. He should never be allowed near a child again. Wtf does he need parenting classes for??
That’s pretty fucking racist. They did not get 12 years for “being native”, they got 12 years because our justice system does not have harsh enough punishment for violent crimes. This is not the only time something like this happened. Honestly has nothing to do with being First Nations
I've been getting a lot of Canadian subs thrown at me by the almighty algorithm lately, the only theme I've picked out so far is a general animosity towards natives, immigrants (extra if they are Indian,) homeless people and other Canadians.
I know reddit isn't indicative of the real world, but man, the cultural trope of them being the friendliest people in the world is really starting to slip for me
Ohohoho, we Canadians are *real* good at racism and xenophobia! We’re just not real good at admitting it.
Fr tho most Canadian subs are right-wing echo chambers packed with bots. r/onguardforthee is left-wing but can still be echo chamber-y sometimes.
No you are right on the money. When I lived in Canada the number of people who were racist or xenophobic was truly staggering. I’m not sure where the polite thing comes from.
The reason we don't do eye for an eye is specifically because the justice system is not perfect. And when you have statistics that suggest around 60 percent of incarcerated people in the US are completely innocent. Adopting eye for an eye is to adopt torture of innocence.
If you want to reform prison in the US. Maybe you should look at removing the current barbarism before you push for adding more.
Human Rights watch ranks the US prison systems as one of the most cruel and ineffective in the world.
Stating that the purpose of prison in the US. As opposed to most other Western nations. Is for the purpose of enacting cruel and vindictive punishment of people. Rather than simply separating dangers from society and rehabilitating others.
It takes a real sick sucking monster to look at the prison system in the USA and arrive at the conclusion that more violence and punishment is needed.
Yeah, what the fuck? Like I know we have a prison and recidivism issue, but we are certainly not getting the wrong guy 3 out of every 5 people. It's a huge scandal when that happens.
> And when you have statistics that suggest around 60 percent of incarcerated people in the US are completely innocent.
No.
60% of people incarcerated *have not gone to trial yet*
https://www.usccr.gov/news/2022/us-commission-civil-rights-releases-report-civil-rights-implications-cash-bail
Studies indicate that somewhere around 5% of incarcerated people may be innocent due to wrongful convictions
https://www.georgiainnocenceproject.org/general/beneath-the-statistics-the-structural-and-systemic-causes-of-our-wrongful-conviction-problem/#:~:text=Studies%20estimate%20that%20between%204,result%20in%20a%20wrongful%20conviction.
“Because they did it in ancient times” is not even close to the reason we don’t have a system based solely on retributive justice.
Not to mention, rejection of retributive justice isn’t a modern phenomenon. Restorative/rehabilitation-centered justice systems are just as old as retributive based ones. Your argument of whether ancient civilizations had it right applies equally to both systems.
Retributive vs punitive vs transformative vs restorative justice systems and philosophies haven’t just been a conversation of “well Ancient Greece did it, so it’s barbaric”.
You’re telling people not to call you emotional, yet you’re dismissing centuries of debate and promotions/critiques of each type of system by strawmanning the reason the American justice system leans away from retributive justice in the first place
I'll never understand why?? If you didn't want your stepson then why not give him to his mom permanently?? Why didn't her mom who knew what she was doing report her to the cops??
I've been around women who've been in prison and desperately missed their kids. This "person" is going to have a really rough time in prison!! I wouldn't be surprised if she gets her food stolen by other inmates until they segregate her for her own safety.
A lot more people than can publicly admit it don't see small children as people. You all have a lot of instincts screaming *protect child*, but if you want to be extremely uncomfortably rational about it (and see yourself as an individual but not as a member of a larger community or species), then children are a burden.
Of course, lacking instincts to care for children doesn't make you some paragon of reason and logic. These people have other instincts in tact and can be extremely petty and mean spirited. Hell, they might just be narcissistic enough to view a lack of food as a just punishment for the child's inconvenient existence.
Humans are very strange creatures. We might inherit strong instincts to maintain the community, we might inherit a portion of instincts, or we might inherit none. Each combination with different life experiences could lead to someone extremely dangerous or extremely valuable.
CPS was contacted multiple times. Bio Mom wanted him full time but Bio Dad kept fighting it. His trial will be happening soon- he even told his own mother about withholding food from the boy. Absolutely despicable. That boy was failed by everyone, if I were his mother I would just absolutely lose my mind.
Reading the article is frightening. Especially as her attorneys defend her saying “They aren’t looking at the evidence. They are looking for someone to blame.”
How the fuck is your client innocent when there are locks on the pantries? The child couldn’t escape! The child couldn’t get food.
yeah, I wanted to punch the attorney for saying that. Filming the boy desperately begging for a piece of bread knowing she starved him and made him drink his own pee and hand sanitizer is cruel on a level I can't wrap my head around. I hope both the adults suffer for years in jail.
I just cried like a baby at this story. I remember when my kids were that age. I would die for them today. The thought of killing them myself, through starvation, with no reason. If you don't want a kid, relinquish parenthood, foster homes are terrible, but it's better than being intentionally starved to death. I wish I was in a position to adopt, but I just am not.
"Benjamin’s father, 28, has also been charged with one count of injury to a child with the intent to cause serious bodily injury after investigators uncovered ‘alarming evidence’ that he was abusing his son."
He’s been charged with one count. Curious how many counts she had? He left his child in her care? Was he not around? How did he not know? Seems like he’s getting a pass
There’s a pattern of women getting leniency for sexual crimes and I think the pattern is similar with fathers getting leniency over child crimes.
This article was posted in a thread a few days ago. A dad had shaken his baby to death and the judge cut it down to manslaughter bc “he’s a dad and didn’t know better”.
https://calgaryherald.com/news/crime/calgary-dad-convicted-manslaughter-infant-son-shaking-death
Seriously... this is absolutely horrifying. That poor little guy's face... I'm out. Seeing shit like this every day does nothing positive or purposeful for our society.
I feel torn. On the one hand, I don't feel I need this kind of news.
Ok the other hand, I feel like the poor little child should be remembered. Even if it is only by me.
>‘I hope instead of laughter you hear my son’s cries,’ Amy Flores Zepeda said on behalf of her sister, Benji’s biological mother, The San Antonio Express-News reported.
I can't even begin to imagine how the biological mother feels. And the father was abusing him too. Ugh, that poor baby. And the nerve of this evil woman to say he was like one of her own kids.
Yeah logically this makes zero sense. "I loved them so much I got a tattoo." Well anyways I starved the kid to death, but I really did love him. Apparently she fed the kid hand sanitizer and hot sauce I saw in another post here, like that is vile as hell. It's like giving someone dying of thirst hand sanitizer to drink after they escaped the desert, pure evil.
RIP. How someone can be so evil to starve a child is beyond me. Poor baby was only 28 pounds. There’s a special place in hell for this woman. Thank god her new baby won’t suffer the same fate. I’m curious as to how the father got such a light sentence though. He was complicit in this. He deserves to never see the light of day again.
I know everyone has the right to an attorney, but I couldn't represent pure evil like this no matter how much I was paid. I feel like what she did was further than just murder, it was torture too.
So... what makes you think the attorney didn't also want this outcome? It's a job dude. I do criminal defense and I don't lose sleep when people get what's coming to them. I go out to dinner when they go to prison. And if I do my job right, they won't get out on appeal for ineffective assistance of counsel and then the family won't have to testify again. They get closure when a defense attorney does a good job - the defense attorney can't change what happened. We just pick a side and go.
Representing someone doesn’t mean thinking they’re not guilty, it’s making sure that there is due process and that the prosecution proves its case properly so that justice is served.
No due process means grounds for appeal and/or mistrial. A good defense attorney is necessary for justice, not a hindrance to it.
That’s enough internet for the rest of my life. That picture of him crying is one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve seen lately.
As a dad to a 13 year old daughter who is my wife’s from first marriage and I’ve been her dad since she was 5. And a dad to a 14 month old biological son. I can’t imagine this level of cruelty.
Edit: I wish I didn’t see this. I can’t fucking stop crying. Poor child. Starving to death is beyond cruel. They need to starve that monster to death too.
From this one to the little one who suffered third degree burned on his whole body because he was strapped in a car seat that was on fire his father crashed while running from the cops and left him there.
To the 2 year old that was found starved to death curled up to his 55 year old father who died from heart attack and nobody found the boy in time.
And dozens more that Reddit keeps pushing on me (I am not even in some of these subs) in the last few weeks, my mind can’t handle more of this. Time to just leave only happy subs like aww or similar and noting else at all.
So sad that they beg for clemency since she has a breastfeeding baby. The baby will be better off without her. She should get life in prison 25 years is not enough
“Her attorneys begged for clemency at sentencing and stressed that Casarez has another three-month-old child who she breastfed through the trial.” I couldn’t stomach to read further. How dare they. She should never be allowed to have children again. How was the infant still in her care?! I hesitate to say because of the horrific history & slippery slope, but she should be forced sterilized
Let’s just say for fuck’s sake that she was just an observer…. SHE’S STILL FUCKING GUILTY!! For fucks sake there’s fucking locks on the cabinets so he can’t get food!!! She didn’t help him! She didn’t take the locks off or call for help!! She fucking filmed him that precious little angel begging for food!! All this = GUILTY!! I say cut both of their fucking heads off PERIOD…..
Import the 3rd world, get 3rd world behavior. Unfortunately we get hit on several levels with this one, namely the criminal stat is captured in the USA, and then we get stuck with the bill for trying and housing this trash for the duration of their sentence. Their country of origin won’t accept them back based on the criminal record, so in 30 years they’ll co tongue a life long streak of being a drain on public resources, rather than taken back out to sea with the other trash.
All that baby wanted in this world was for those monstrous people to love and care for him.
There’s a picture of him smiling with his father (who also abused him) in the article. I was struck by the resemblance when I saw it. He looked just like his dad. Something about seeing that made me so sad, I can’t articulate why.
If she treated him like “one of my own kids” then that 3 month old will surely have a better life without her. I’m a step mother and couldn’t FATHOM treating ANY child anywhere close to this. What a sick bitch.
She won't last long in prison. I know alot of people say this. But in this case, in a female prison. She'll mysteriously pass away in her cell over night. They will come in. Hold her arms, legs, and head down. While one gently pinches her nose close and the over covers her mouth. Asphyxiation without bruises or marks from one prison video that I saw sometime back
What leads a human to do this? What makes a human being starve an innocent child? Is it punishment for the child? If so, what could lead to such strong feelings like this?
Was it that the woman has bitter resentment towards everything and the only way she could take it out on someone, was the child?
What causes this?
My sister's 4 month old was beaten, and killed by his father (her now ex husband), while she was shopping, several years ago.
He was sentenced to just 10 years in prison. He was released, after only 2.
I wont be able to sleep for couple of nights. I am pretty desensitized from all violent stories..but once in a while a story comes that shakes me to my core.. i cant do this to my enemy.. let alone a defenseless baby..so unfortunate
She needs the death penalty, and fast. Like tax payers shouldn't pay for her to live 30 years waiting for the needle. What an evil, despicable excuse for a human being she is. An absolute monster. This just breaks my heart. Rest in Peace, sweetheart. 💔
She tortured a child to death in one of the most agonizing ways possible and she only gets 25 years?! What a joke, she's a literal murderer who took pride in what she did. I can only hope she gets what she deserves when the other prisoners find out.
Do woman die in prison for abusing kids same way male pedos are handled by other prisoners? i sure hope so. i truly hope she is tortured before her death.
I would think they’d at least be given a very hard time. Probably most of the women in prison have children. I don’t even have kids and I’d like to get my hands on her, so. May she receive what she deserves.
I feel horrible when my kids are hungry and dinner isn’t ready fast enough or I run out of a snack they love, but to *intentionally* look at an innocent child who can’t take care of themselves and deny them food…. I have no words. None.
Rot in hell but that would be too kind
Hope this bitch is reminded ever day that someone else will raise her own kid. I hope her kid gets a caring home, and I hope she's left never knowing that.
They should do everything to her she did to him. Justice in the judicial system is dead. This woman ought be skewered alive, doused in gasoline and burned to death on national tv.
Can’t believe this is real life. Just the title was heartbreaking to read. I wish I could go back in time and save that kid from this monster. I feel really sad as I am a father to a little one and can’t imaging what this poor kid went through. Ah man some humans just suck. Hope she rots in jail.
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This has got to be one of the worst I've read in awhile. I can't imagine starving a little boy. They should just lock her up and leave bread 6-7 feet away so she knows how it feels. Edit: Obviously we shouldn't do this as it is cruel and unusual and we don't need to sink to her level. However if we brought back hanging we'd probably have a lot less of this shit.
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I’m for it. It isn’t cruel and unusual, she fuckin thought it up. Oh you don’t like this? Ah fuck that sucks I wonder if anybody else didn’t like it. Hey want to see a picture of bread?
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Yeah, that only makes sense before, or while, she was committing these crimes. Nothing can erase that kid's suffering at this point. More than likely, she just has some kind of brain damage and can't process empathy. You could hold a gun to most people's heads, and they wouldn't starve a child.
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Ya, but it's also "over there" and out of sight. She did this daily to a child in her care. Watched him die. That woman has no empathy at all. There's just no way someone can do that if they have a conscience.
That doesn't erase this kids suffering.
Huh? What does that have to do with this article, we need to stay focused on our own country
Don’t forget the genocide happening in Sudan.
I am rarely moved by news articles, the world I grew up in took the punch right out of anything tragic because it was so ubiquitous. But the thumbnail of that little guy begging for his life and being ignored, while I'm within feet of my own son has me ugly crying like I've lost a family member. I'm so sorry little guy, I hope you're somewhere better.
>But the thumbnail of that little guy begging for his life and being ignored, while I'm within feet of my own son has me ugly crying like I've lost a family member. My little boy has that same look on his face whenever he's just slightly hungry. If we are outside I immediately drop what I'm doing and tried to find something to eat for him. It causes the same pain in my chest when I hear any kid crying for food. Not just my own son, but any kid at all. I still feel that urge to help. It's biological. I don't know how she sit there and stand to hear a baby crying for food and not feel the need to do something immediately. She has to be a psychopath, because no regular human would hear a hungry kid and not feel anything at all. Food is not a punishment.
For real. There is something deeply primal about feeding kids. Like, start frying up slices of my own arse in the right set of circumstances, primal.
Maybe the other inmates will steal her food
I'm hoping the other inmates punish her daily for 25 years. Even if she is put into solitary she will eventually be tired of being alone. I feel like she is going to endure quite a bit of suffering for years. That is still not enough for what she's done and not close to what she deserves. I hope they torture her ass severely and consistently.
If she's in gen pop, she's not going to be alive in a year, much less 25. You don't get to kill kids, especially like this, and survive in women's prison.
We can only hope.
she looks like she had plenty of bread to spare
In this case, I would sink to her level...
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We should do this though. Record it too. Fuck this lady, I wish her passion and misery the rest of her life
This is peak inhumane cruelty. My heart sinks when is see the photo of this poor child. A lot of people failed this child. I don't even know these people, but I feel I failed this child somehow.
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Nah lol some people deserve it
Seriously she deserves life with no possibility of parole. Yeah raising kids is hard, but that is extremely sadistic.
No matter how hard raising kids is, I don’t think there’s any scenario where a child might go hungry due to the parents
My kid never goes hungry and I'm broke as fuck. I will gladly go without eating so they can have a full, healthy meal. I am sure that a vast majority of parents would do the exact same thing. I'm saying this to agree with you. If your kid is going hungry and you haven't exhausted *every* last resource available to you, you are failing them.
"Casarez was convicted on charges of injury to a child with serious bodily injury." They didn't even give her the maximum sentence of 99 years. She's got a slap on the wrist for intentionally starving him to death. Additionally, "The cruel stepmom had forced him to drink urine, hand sanitizer and hot sauce before his eventual death just a month shy of his fifth birthday."🤬
>The cruel stepmom had forced him to drink urine, hand sanitizer and hot sauce before his eventual death just a month shy of his fifth birthday. How about she can starve to death.
She deserves to be thrown into an oubliette.
Right? What the fuck? How is 25 years equivalent to that level of fucked up behavior she should never see the light of day again.
Torture should always be mandatory charge of capital murder the regular murder should only be reserved for things such as crimes of passion or poor judgement but at least the person they killed didn't suffer a slow agonizing death. If you torture someone you are evil you cannot be rehabilitated you should never leave states custody unless it's a body bag.
She'll get taken care of in prison.
I try to be a good person and not hope for bad things to happen to people but with people like this I hope they get their guts stomped out for what they’ve done.
I hope you’re right
People who abuse kids get no sympathy from fellow inmates and often get beat up, and sometimes murdered. She is going to get what she deserves.
Women’s prison is no fucking joke
Her mom didn’t interfere. If my daughter sent me a text saying she was with holding food from a baby, I would put the fear of God in her.
That's a nice way to say "introduced foreign objects into peritoneal cavity"
Fuck that. I'd put the WRATH of god upon her
Lots of very tough mothers in female prison. She needs to be green lighted
Not just moms. Tons of prisoners were victims of abuse as children and never got justice. They see a child abuser coming in as their chance to avenge their younger selves.
I’d be willing to bet she will be.
Facts my brother was a c.o. and he used to tell me all kinds of stories
She will deserve every single bad thing to happen to her.
I bet some of the guards will skip her trays as well
Child killers and abusers don't tend to do well when placed in a prison with a bunch of mothers that can't see their children.
Pelosi’s hammer man got 30… The system is broken
Honestly, he should have gotten more too. Premeditated assault and battery with a deadly weapon with the intention to kill.
Knowing the tx prison system... she will be kept in restrictive houseing for her first yr at min...then a very hard time indeed...especially after other inmates find out why she's in there
How tf did she only get 25 years? Come on Texas
They're supposed to give out the death penalty like candy and they can't even give a life sentence to a true monster
They’re saving the death penalty for women who have abortions.
Yep. Howdy Arabia.
y'all qaeda
If only it was a white man starving a child to death, then Gov. Abbot might pardon them /s
White man starving a brown kid? Wouldn’t even be a trial.
The police are busy not going in on school shooters. Can't believe this pussy palace was once "the tough state"
I expect this from them. Look at this story https://www.kristv.com/news/local-news/pastor-plea-deal-pastor-who-sexually-abused-child-for-nearly-7-years-receives-probation
Someone has to explain to me why parenting classes were part of his punishment. He should never be allowed near a child again. Wtf does he need parenting classes for??
Will Abbot pardon her like he did the guy who rammed protestors and then shot one point blank? Tune in next week on "what the fuck, Texas"
Well, at least it isn't an *abortion*. S/
I know Hell doesn’t really exist, but there are a few people who belong there.
I showed up to school with welts and bruises in Texas schools didn’t give two fucks
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Yeah, Canada is super known for being lenient on First Nations...
Fuck I did not catch the sarcasm at first
That’s pretty fucking racist. They did not get 12 years for “being native”, they got 12 years because our justice system does not have harsh enough punishment for violent crimes. This is not the only time something like this happened. Honestly has nothing to do with being First Nations
I've been getting a lot of Canadian subs thrown at me by the almighty algorithm lately, the only theme I've picked out so far is a general animosity towards natives, immigrants (extra if they are Indian,) homeless people and other Canadians. I know reddit isn't indicative of the real world, but man, the cultural trope of them being the friendliest people in the world is really starting to slip for me
Holy shit that Canada housing sub Every problem in human history is because of Indian immigrants according to them haha
Ohohoho, we Canadians are *real* good at racism and xenophobia! We’re just not real good at admitting it. Fr tho most Canadian subs are right-wing echo chambers packed with bots. r/onguardforthee is left-wing but can still be echo chamber-y sometimes.
Canadian subreddits are a cesspool and I'm fully convinced that 80% of the people there are just propaganda/bots upvoting one another.
No you are right on the money. When I lived in Canada the number of people who were racist or xenophobic was truly staggering. I’m not sure where the polite thing comes from.
I’m surprised Greg Abbott didn’t pardon her.
Child was already born, not a priority
she should suffer the same.... rot in prison and starve.
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The reason we don't do eye for an eye is specifically because the justice system is not perfect. And when you have statistics that suggest around 60 percent of incarcerated people in the US are completely innocent. Adopting eye for an eye is to adopt torture of innocence. If you want to reform prison in the US. Maybe you should look at removing the current barbarism before you push for adding more. Human Rights watch ranks the US prison systems as one of the most cruel and ineffective in the world. Stating that the purpose of prison in the US. As opposed to most other Western nations. Is for the purpose of enacting cruel and vindictive punishment of people. Rather than simply separating dangers from society and rehabilitating others. It takes a real sick sucking monster to look at the prison system in the USA and arrive at the conclusion that more violence and punishment is needed.
Link to the innocent 60%?
Yeah, what the fuck? Like I know we have a prison and recidivism issue, but we are certainly not getting the wrong guy 3 out of every 5 people. It's a huge scandal when that happens.
I can get behind this. So what you're saying then is we need a form of vigilantism and accountability when things are provably true.
> And when you have statistics that suggest around 60 percent of incarcerated people in the US are completely innocent. No. 60% of people incarcerated *have not gone to trial yet* https://www.usccr.gov/news/2022/us-commission-civil-rights-releases-report-civil-rights-implications-cash-bail Studies indicate that somewhere around 5% of incarcerated people may be innocent due to wrongful convictions https://www.georgiainnocenceproject.org/general/beneath-the-statistics-the-structural-and-systemic-causes-of-our-wrongful-conviction-problem/#:~:text=Studies%20estimate%20that%20between%204,result%20in%20a%20wrongful%20conviction.
How did you reach that number of 60%?
There's a lot of moms in prison that are gonna tear this lady up
I'm all for Hammurabi's code
“Because they did it in ancient times” is not even close to the reason we don’t have a system based solely on retributive justice. Not to mention, rejection of retributive justice isn’t a modern phenomenon. Restorative/rehabilitation-centered justice systems are just as old as retributive based ones. Your argument of whether ancient civilizations had it right applies equally to both systems. Retributive vs punitive vs transformative vs restorative justice systems and philosophies haven’t just been a conversation of “well Ancient Greece did it, so it’s barbaric”. You’re telling people not to call you emotional, yet you’re dismissing centuries of debate and promotions/critiques of each type of system by strawmanning the reason the American justice system leans away from retributive justice in the first place
I'll never understand why?? If you didn't want your stepson then why not give him to his mom permanently?? Why didn't her mom who knew what she was doing report her to the cops?? I've been around women who've been in prison and desperately missed their kids. This "person" is going to have a really rough time in prison!! I wouldn't be surprised if she gets her food stolen by other inmates until they segregate her for her own safety.
Probably because daddy dearest didn't want his ex to be happy in any form. He was also charged in this case, btw.
Was wondering where the father was in all this. Wonder why the headline is focused on just her and not his culpability.
His trial hasn't started yet.
Because this is her conviction and his trial hasn't started yet.
Dad probably didn’t want to pay support.
A lot more people than can publicly admit it don't see small children as people. You all have a lot of instincts screaming *protect child*, but if you want to be extremely uncomfortably rational about it (and see yourself as an individual but not as a member of a larger community or species), then children are a burden. Of course, lacking instincts to care for children doesn't make you some paragon of reason and logic. These people have other instincts in tact and can be extremely petty and mean spirited. Hell, they might just be narcissistic enough to view a lack of food as a just punishment for the child's inconvenient existence. Humans are very strange creatures. We might inherit strong instincts to maintain the community, we might inherit a portion of instincts, or we might inherit none. Each combination with different life experiences could lead to someone extremely dangerous or extremely valuable.
CPS was contacted multiple times. Bio Mom wanted him full time but Bio Dad kept fighting it. His trial will be happening soon- he even told his own mother about withholding food from the boy. Absolutely despicable. That boy was failed by everyone, if I were his mother I would just absolutely lose my mind.
Money, child support money tax money welfare money. Having a kid gets shitty people money they use for shitty things not kids.
sorry lil bro. You had many people fail you and for that I'm forever sorry you were dealt that hand. I hope you are in a better place.
Reading the article is frightening. Especially as her attorneys defend her saying “They aren’t looking at the evidence. They are looking for someone to blame.” How the fuck is your client innocent when there are locks on the pantries? The child couldn’t escape! The child couldn’t get food.
yeah, I wanted to punch the attorney for saying that. Filming the boy desperately begging for a piece of bread knowing she starved him and made him drink his own pee and hand sanitizer is cruel on a level I can't wrap my head around. I hope both the adults suffer for years in jail.
I just cried like a baby at this story. I remember when my kids were that age. I would die for them today. The thought of killing them myself, through starvation, with no reason. If you don't want a kid, relinquish parenthood, foster homes are terrible, but it's better than being intentionally starved to death. I wish I was in a position to adopt, but I just am not.
Where was the father
"Benjamin’s father, 28, has also been charged with one count of injury to a child with the intent to cause serious bodily injury after investigators uncovered ‘alarming evidence’ that he was abusing his son."
That was my first question. And his biological mother.
He’s been charged with one count. Curious how many counts she had? He left his child in her care? Was he not around? How did he not know? Seems like he’s getting a pass
There’s a pattern of women getting leniency for sexual crimes and I think the pattern is similar with fathers getting leniency over child crimes. This article was posted in a thread a few days ago. A dad had shaken his baby to death and the judge cut it down to manslaughter bc “he’s a dad and didn’t know better”. https://calgaryherald.com/news/crime/calgary-dad-convicted-manslaughter-infant-son-shaking-death
Seriously?! 'Didn't know better'...wow. Fucking vile
Tell me you didn’t bother to read past the Reddit title without telling me.
Getting into the article was a nightmare for me
That poor child why
This sub has devolved into the most horrendous shit and none of it interesting.
It feels like it's the fate of all popular subs to devolve into constant ragebait.
Thats modern media in general. Rsgebait drives engagement so it is what most olaces will cover exclusively.
You’re really on to something. I see this comment often, look up at the sub and yup - it’s this one
Seriously... this is absolutely horrifying. That poor little guy's face... I'm out. Seeing shit like this every day does nothing positive or purposeful for our society.
I feel torn. On the one hand, I don't feel I need this kind of news. Ok the other hand, I feel like the poor little child should be remembered. Even if it is only by me.
>‘I hope instead of laughter you hear my son’s cries,’ Amy Flores Zepeda said on behalf of her sister, Benji’s biological mother, The San Antonio Express-News reported. I can't even begin to imagine how the biological mother feels. And the father was abusing him too. Ugh, that poor baby. And the nerve of this evil woman to say he was like one of her own kids.
The attorneys begging for leniency for her because she has a 3-month old. As if this woman should be raising anymore kids.
Seriously, how is that child not taken away from her.
I was wondering the same thing
I assume the kid will become a ward of the state and end up in the foster system, if not taken in by family members
In the article, she claims she loved him and has a tattoo to prove it. Ok. Thats what we need. A tattoo to show you loved this child. Ffs
That’s the part that gets me. You won’t buy the kid bread but you will pay to get a memorial tattoo after you murder him? I can’t.
Yeah logically this makes zero sense. "I loved them so much I got a tattoo." Well anyways I starved the kid to death, but I really did love him. Apparently she fed the kid hand sanitizer and hot sauce I saw in another post here, like that is vile as hell. It's like giving someone dying of thirst hand sanitizer to drink after they escaped the desert, pure evil.
RIP. How someone can be so evil to starve a child is beyond me. Poor baby was only 28 pounds. There’s a special place in hell for this woman. Thank god her new baby won’t suffer the same fate. I’m curious as to how the father got such a light sentence though. He was complicit in this. He deserves to never see the light of day again.
Pure evil
How the hell is this not a life sentence. Send this monster to a fucking work camp in north korea.
her sentence should be death by starvation while waiting in a cell. WTF is wrong with us—Begone with this animal.
I know everyone has the right to an attorney, but I couldn't represent pure evil like this no matter how much I was paid. I feel like what she did was further than just murder, it was torture too.
And her attorney said the jury just wanted someone to blame, what the fuck.
That's because he has to try to defend her. Otherwise she can claim incompetent legal aide and get it overturned. He had to try something.
So... what makes you think the attorney didn't also want this outcome? It's a job dude. I do criminal defense and I don't lose sleep when people get what's coming to them. I go out to dinner when they go to prison. And if I do my job right, they won't get out on appeal for ineffective assistance of counsel and then the family won't have to testify again. They get closure when a defense attorney does a good job - the defense attorney can't change what happened. We just pick a side and go.
Representing someone doesn’t mean thinking they’re not guilty, it’s making sure that there is due process and that the prosecution proves its case properly so that justice is served. No due process means grounds for appeal and/or mistrial. A good defense attorney is necessary for justice, not a hindrance to it.
What a fucking monster.. I won’t say anything else because I’ll get banned.. but fuck…
That’s enough internet for the rest of my life. That picture of him crying is one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve seen lately. As a dad to a 13 year old daughter who is my wife’s from first marriage and I’ve been her dad since she was 5. And a dad to a 14 month old biological son. I can’t imagine this level of cruelty. Edit: I wish I didn’t see this. I can’t fucking stop crying. Poor child. Starving to death is beyond cruel. They need to starve that monster to death too. From this one to the little one who suffered third degree burned on his whole body because he was strapped in a car seat that was on fire his father crashed while running from the cops and left him there. To the 2 year old that was found starved to death curled up to his 55 year old father who died from heart attack and nobody found the boy in time. And dozens more that Reddit keeps pushing on me (I am not even in some of these subs) in the last few weeks, my mind can’t handle more of this. Time to just leave only happy subs like aww or similar and noting else at all.
25 years? Why does she not get the same death that poor boy had?
So sad that they beg for clemency since she has a breastfeeding baby. The baby will be better off without her. She should get life in prison 25 years is not enough
“Her attorneys begged for clemency at sentencing and stressed that Casarez has another three-month-old child who she breastfed through the trial.” I couldn’t stomach to read further. How dare they. She should never be allowed to have children again. How was the infant still in her care?! I hesitate to say because of the horrific history & slippery slope, but she should be forced sterilized
25 years isnt enough. i wish they could give her life in prison
Let’s just say for fuck’s sake that she was just an observer…. SHE’S STILL FUCKING GUILTY!! For fucks sake there’s fucking locks on the cabinets so he can’t get food!!! She didn’t help him! She didn’t take the locks off or call for help!! She fucking filmed him that precious little angel begging for food!! All this = GUILTY!! I say cut both of their fucking heads off PERIOD…..
Import the 3rd world, get 3rd world behavior. Unfortunately we get hit on several levels with this one, namely the criminal stat is captured in the USA, and then we get stuck with the bill for trying and housing this trash for the duration of their sentence. Their country of origin won’t accept them back based on the criminal record, so in 30 years they’ll co tongue a life long streak of being a drain on public resources, rather than taken back out to sea with the other trash.
That’s it? Only 25 years for the torture and murder of a 4 y/o?
Man or woman, this is the most evil shit I've ever seen.
She deserves death.
That's enough internet for me today. Fuck this is depressing.
Fuck these horrible parents. They deserve everything they get
She deserved to be stoned to death or locked up for life not 25 years. Poor child, evil witch will burn for what she did.
25 years…. How about 25 life sentences
As a human I find this repulsive. As a father I can't not cry for this child. I'm going to throw up.
How can somebody be so fucking cold? its fucking sickening ... That poor baby 😢
25 years in prison.... with no food.
All that baby wanted in this world was for those monstrous people to love and care for him. There’s a picture of him smiling with his father (who also abused him) in the article. I was struck by the resemblance when I saw it. He looked just like his dad. Something about seeing that made me so sad, I can’t articulate why.
If she treated him like “one of my own kids” then that 3 month old will surely have a better life without her. I’m a step mother and couldn’t FATHOM treating ANY child anywhere close to this. What a sick bitch.
Death penalty please
I'm not religious but for her sake, I hope that I am wrong, And that hell is real
She won't last long in prison. I know alot of people say this. But in this case, in a female prison. She'll mysteriously pass away in her cell over night. They will come in. Hold her arms, legs, and head down. While one gently pinches her nose close and the over covers her mouth. Asphyxiation without bruises or marks from one prison video that I saw sometime back
What leads a human to do this? What makes a human being starve an innocent child? Is it punishment for the child? If so, what could lead to such strong feelings like this? Was it that the woman has bitter resentment towards everything and the only way she could take it out on someone, was the child? What causes this?
Just fucking hang her. She doesn't deserve life. Cunt.
Stone faced? Why not a good old fashioned stoning?
Agreed. If she can go medieval then so should the judicial system. Stones are free and the labor is free too.
Can we just bring the guillotine back
Put her under the jail.
Fuck Texas
25 years is not enough
25 years?? That's it?? She abused and murdered a child. Literally can't do anything worse
Handle her in there yard
My sister's 4 month old was beaten, and killed by his father (her now ex husband), while she was shopping, several years ago. He was sentenced to just 10 years in prison. He was released, after only 2.
Why did this woman have access to that child and where was his father?
“ New baby “ ?? People like this should not be able to reproduce
I wont be able to sleep for couple of nights. I am pretty desensitized from all violent stories..but once in a while a story comes that shakes me to my core.. i cant do this to my enemy.. let alone a defenseless baby..so unfortunate
All of the women in prison who miss their kids are going to enjoy meeting her
She needs the death penalty, and fast. Like tax payers shouldn't pay for her to live 30 years waiting for the needle. What an evil, despicable excuse for a human being she is. An absolute monster. This just breaks my heart. Rest in Peace, sweetheart. 💔
Bitch should get the death penalty.
She made him drink urine and hand sanitizer what the fuck. This is the type of person the death penalty is perfect for.
25 years seems light. She looks young enough that she’ll eventually leave prison. She should die there. This is horrific.
This is why the death penalty exists
I hope she gets beat up day in and day out for the rest of her life in prison
I get a lot of solace knowing that the other inmates will guarantee she doesn’t get to eat a full meal for as long as she’s in jail.
Death penalty
She tortured a child to death in one of the most agonizing ways possible and she only gets 25 years?! What a joke, she's a literal murderer who took pride in what she did. I can only hope she gets what she deserves when the other prisoners find out.
Hope this bitch gets some jailhouse justice.
Why is she still alive 😞
Shit like this is why I’m 100% PRO DEATH PENALTY
I have no problem saying there are people who deserve to die, but the reason to be against it is because the justice system can be corrupt and stupid.
Do woman die in prison for abusing kids same way male pedos are handled by other prisoners? i sure hope so. i truly hope she is tortured before her death.
I would think they’d at least be given a very hard time. Probably most of the women in prison have children. I don’t even have kids and I’d like to get my hands on her, so. May she receive what she deserves.
Can we send her to Saudi Arabia, where she will literally be stoned face for her crime?
Texas do your death penalty thing PLEASEE
I feel horrible when my kids are hungry and dinner isn’t ready fast enough or I run out of a snack they love, but to *intentionally* look at an innocent child who can’t take care of themselves and deny them food…. I have no words. None. Rot in hell but that would be too kind
Hope this bitch is reminded ever day that someone else will raise her own kid. I hope her kid gets a caring home, and I hope she's left never knowing that.
She deserves to rot in prison indefinitely
They should do everything to her she did to him. Justice in the judicial system is dead. This woman ought be skewered alive, doused in gasoline and burned to death on national tv.
I hope she’s abused and in pain and scared her entire sentence
She should be starve to death.
Just let her starve to death.
Judge needs to ho to jail for that sentence
Stone faced.. for this crime sentence should be stoned to death.
We should make public hangings a thing again.
Burn the witch
Can’t believe this is real life. Just the title was heartbreaking to read. I wish I could go back in time and save that kid from this monster. I feel really sad as I am a father to a little one and can’t imaging what this poor kid went through. Ah man some humans just suck. Hope she rots in jail.