PALMDALE, Calif. (TCN) — A mother who was convicted of first-degree murder in her son’s 2013 death and sentenced to life in prison is seeking resentencing for the second time since having the request denied in 2021.
KABC reports that Pearl Sinthia Fernandez, 42, was sentenced in 2018 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing her son, 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez. Her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, 45, was sentenced to death in 2018, and his automatic appeal to the California Supreme Court is pending.
The abuse of Gabriel Fernandez began when he was 7 years old and he died three months after turning 8, KABC reports. He was routinely beaten, shot with a BB gun, forced to eat cat feces, and made to sleep inside a small cabinet while gagged and bound…