How could a mother do this to her child? There must be a special place in hell for people like her. And where was CPS? They should have to answer for this too. I'm outraged!
http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/44999.html
Exhibit No. 36 was a photo of 21/2-year-old Savina Gonzales. Her stomach sunken, her ribs and spine showing and her fingernails long and ragged with dried feces under them.
Savina was dead, but her eyes were wide open.
She weighed 13 pounds.
It was a disturbing image, but none of the jurors serving on Darlene Sanchez's murder trial were shown the photo.
There was no need for them to see it. The reactions from witnesses were clear: Savina's death was horrifying.
"She is not normal; she is skin and bones," prosecutor Chris Gularte said during his opening statements Monday in Fresno County Superior Court. "She has no fat. On the cellular level, her cells were breaking apart. She has purple fingers -- evidence of her heart giving up."
Sanchez, 38, is charged with second-degree murder for starving one of her eight children to death four years ago. If convicted, she faces life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years.
http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/44999.html
Exhibit No. 36 was a photo of 21/2-year-old Savina Gonzales. Her stomach sunken, her ribs and spine showing and her fingernails long and ragged with dried feces under them.
Savina was dead, but her eyes were wide open.
She weighed 13 pounds.
It was a disturbing image, but none of the jurors serving on Darlene Sanchez's murder trial were shown the photo.
There was no need for them to see it. The reactions from witnesses were clear: Savina's death was horrifying.
"She is not normal; she is skin and bones," prosecutor Chris Gularte said during his opening statements Monday in Fresno County Superior Court. "She has no fat. On the cellular level, her cells were breaking apart. She has purple fingers -- evidence of her heart giving up."
Sanchez, 38, is charged with second-degree murder for starving one of her eight children to death four years ago. If convicted, she faces life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years.