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Family Members Angry
After Deadly SWAT ShootingKTLA News
August 12, 2008, 5:57 AM PDT
LYNWOOD --- Authorities
are on the offensive after a sheriff's SWAT team member fatally shot a man who allegedly shot and wounded his common-law
wife and then held the couple's 2-year-old daughter hostage inside his Lynwood home for more than two hours, officials
said today.
The barricade situation in the 3100 block of Los Flores Boulevard, near Long Beach Boulevard, began
at about 8:45 p.m. Sunday, said Deputy Jim Jobling of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Century Station.
When deputies arrived, they found a wounded woman, identified as Laura Sibrian, 29, "who had been shot in the
abdomen by her common-law husband, Gerrardo Arvallo, 32," Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Byron Ward said in
a statement.
The SWAT team entered the house around 11:30 p.m. after talks with Arvallo failed, officials said.
The suspect had been talking to the SWAT team and refused to release his daughter while making threats to kill himself,
Ward said. "Believing that the child was in imminent danger, a sheriff's Special Weapons Team implemented a hostage
rescue plan, which resulted in a deputy-involved shooting and the rescue of the child", he said.
A deputy
fired a single shot and killed Arvallo when he was not near the child, authorities said. It was not immediately known whether
Arvallo was shot before or after the SWAT team entered the home, authorities said.
Family members are upset and
say they should have been given a chance to talk Arvallo out of the situation. Police say their first concern was for the
safety of the child, who was not hurt in the ordeal and was placed in protective custody.
Sibrian was shot once
in the abdomen and was in stable condition at a local hospital Monday, authorities said. She was expected to survive.
A woman, who identified herself as Sibrian's sister, told KTLA that she is caring for the toddler at this time. She
also said that Monday marked the birthday of the child and Sibrian. Copyright © 2008,
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| | Sunday, 29 June 2008 | Five-month-old baby found with cracks in skull, possibly caused by shaking.
 Leobardo Reyes Leobardo Reyes, 23, was charged with felony child endangerment after doctors found cracks in the 5-month-old
baby’s skull. “Police found out that he shook the baby,”
city spokesman Matt Robinson said. The baby was in serious condition
as of Saturday afternoon. She was sent to the Children’s Hospital in Oakland. Parents of the shaken baby took her to Sutter Tracy Community Hospital around 10:30 p.m. Friday. Doctors noticed
the baby’s three cranial fractures and called police. Police questioned
the parents and elicited enough information to arrest the father. No
charges were leveled against the child’s mother as of Saturday. The mother and the infant placed in custody of the San
Joaquin County Child Protective Services. Reyes is being held on a $500,000
bail. He is set to appear in court on Tuesday at the Manteca branch of the San Joaquin County Superior Court. • To reach a Tracy Press reporter or editor, call 835-3030 or e-mail tpnews@tracypress.com This e-mail address is being protected from
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child
in roadside beatingDemian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, June 16, 2008 (06-15) 16:56 PDT -- Sergio Casian Aguiar, who
worked at a supermarket in Turlock, was fatally shot by police Saturday night after he refused to stop attacking his 2-year-old
son, according to the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department.
His estranged wife, Frances Liliana Casian,
is a kindergarten teacher. She was out of towm and the baby was staying with his father and the father's roommate
for the weekend.
He parked his truck on a country road outside Turlock on Saturday night, removed the baby
boy from a car seat and then beat the child to death in the street, fighting off passers-by who tried to stop him, until he
was gunned down by a police officer whose helicopter landed in a nearby pasture, police said Sunday. The 27-year-old suspect, who lived in Turlock (Stanislaus County), died almost immediately where
he fell. The child, who according to police appeared to be 12 to 24 months old, was taken to a hospital but died before arrival. Police officials declined to identify the man and said they were not yet certain who the child was
- or in what way, if any, he was related to his attacker. The Stanislaus County coroner's office told police that the
agency may have to identify the boy through a DNA test because he was beaten beyond recognition. No information was immediately available about the child's mother. The
suspect "had tunnel vision," said Stanislaus County sheriff's Deputy Royjindar Singh, a department spokesman.
"As people tried to intervene, to tackle him, he just went back to what he was doing. Anything and everything he could
do to the baby, that's what he was doing." Singh said investigators were
working hard to answer a series of questions about the shocking case, including why the suspect stopped in the roadway, where
he was coming from and where he was going. Singh said he did not know whether the suspect was under the influence of alcohol
or drugs. The beating and subsequent shooting by police happened near a dairy
ranch along two-lane West Bradbury Road, between South Blaker Road and South Central Avenue, in an unincorporated area about
10 miles west of downtown Turlock and 20 miles south of Modesto. The rural road, which extends straight west from Highway
99, has no streetlights. Singh said an elderly couple driving along West Bradbury
Road just after 10 p.m. made the first 911 call to police, reporting that the suspect's four-door Toyota pickup truck
was parked facing west in the eastbound lane. According to the caller, the suspect was behind the truck, where he was brutally
beating the boy. The couple had poor cell phone reception and did not give authorities
a precise address, delaying the response by a few minutes, Singh said. But soon, he said, others called as well, and some
witnesses stopped and tried to halt the attack on the child, who was shaken, punched, kicked and stomped on the pavement. "One (person) tried to intervene, and the suspect pushed him off and continued assaulting the
baby," Singh said. By 10:13 p.m., a county dispatcher had confirmed the correct
location and broadcast it, Singh said, but it was so remote that the first officers to arrive were aboard a Sheriff's
Department helicopter that had been patrolling over Turlock. The pilot, a sheriff's deputy, and the tactical flight officer,
a Modesto city police officer, landed in a cow pasture just off the roadway at about 10:19 p.m., Singh said. The flight officer then ran about 20 yards toward the suspect and, while standing behind the pasture's
fence, ordered him to stop beating the child, who was on the ground, Singh said. "He
refuses to comply with the orders, and the officer fires," he said, "resulting in the death of the suspect." Firefighters from a nearby station arrived a few minutes later and tried desperately to resuscitate
the child. The boy was then rushed to Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock. Despite this effort, Singh said that the child died
before arrival at the hospital. By the time the ambulance had left the scene,
Singh said, almost a dozen people had witnessed some part of the incident, with at least two trying to physically stop the
suspect. "The two officers on the helicopter, they were pretty shook up about
it," Singh said. "We have to kind of expect this in our line of work. But for people who were just driving home,
they weren't prepared for this. They're watching a helpless baby die in front of them and they're trying to intervene,
but all their efforts aren't doing anything." E-mail Demian Bulwa at dbulwa@sfchronicle.com. This article appeared on page A - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle
Coach Accused Of Molestation To Stand TrialPOSTED: 4:18 pm PDT June 4, 2008 UPDATED:
5:45 pm PDT June 4, 2008 EL CAJON, Calif. -- An East County youth coach was ordered to stand trial Wednesday on allegations he molested five girls, including
two of his own daughters.
Former softball coach,
James Russell Phillips, 41, is charged with seven counts of committing a lewd act on a child. Deputy District Attorney Claudia Grasso said he also faces a multiple-victim allegation. Four of the alleged victims, ages 11 to 14, testified in an El Cajon courtroom against him. Also on the stand was Lisa Brennan with the San Diego Police Department. She testified that she interviewed
a 12-year-old who claimed she was molested by Phillips when she was about 8 years old. Brennan said Phillips was the girl's
softball coach, and the child said he touched her inappropriately. The child told Brennan
that one time, while she was with Phillips' daughter, she was on the master bedroom bed. Brennan said that the girl said
Phillips asked his daughter to leave and sat on the bed with her, allegedly rubbing the girl between her legs, over her pants.
The same girl told Brennan that Phillips would ask her to play a "game" where
he would hide the softball in his pants and ask the child search his pants. The child did not do so, according to the detective,
and told her parents about the incident. Brannan described another alleged incident involving
a different girl. "She said Coach Phillips offered her private lessons because she
wasn't very good at softball. She would go to the house and Mr. Phillips would walk by her and touch her bottom and he
would touch her breasts," she testified. Brennan also testified that one of his daughters
told police that her father kissed her on her mouth and would allegedly touch her breasts and buttocks. Phillips, who coached in the Julian and Ramona areas, has denied the allegations. He's due back in court for
a rearraignment on June 18. If convicted of the charges, he could spend 25 years to life in prison. Phillips
is being held on $900,000 bail.
Father
Arrested for Scalding Baby David Begnaud SACRAMENTO
(CBS13) ― A baby burned with scalding hot water.
Police
nabbed the father in Nevada, the same state where family members say he served 12 years for attempted murder. Now,
he's accused of scalding his own son.
Karen Hoffman is Xavier's grandmother. At the time, back in August,
her daughter, the baby, and the baby's father Alaric Simmons were living with her.
"When ever he was
alone with the baby, little things would happen, he would have a split lip," says Karen.
One weekend, while
out of town, she got a phone call she'll never forget.
"He told me you need to get the hospital,"
explains Karen.
Xavier had second and third degree burns on his face.
"He said that he put him
on the bathroom sink, and that he was washing up and the baby had fell into the water. But he had no burns on his hands, and
he had no burns anywhere else on his body, just one on the side of his face, and that part was covered," Karen says.
The injuries took a toll on Karen and the family.
"And to hear him cry, when we brought him home
we gave him medicine and we had to scrap it and he's scream and I couldn't do it, and my boyfriend did it," Karen
said.
Now, the injuries aren't even noticeable. Today, Simmons, appeared almost disinterested as a judge told
him he's charged with corporal punishment and child endangerment.
"I wish he would burn in hell, and
I'm not that kind of person," Karen says sadly. (© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
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Needless Victims of Child Abuse
Infant
in critical condition, father arrested on suspicion of attempted murderThe Bakersfield Californian | Thursday, May 1 2008 10:15
PM Last Updated: Friday, May 2 2008 7:06 AM Police arrested a father Thursday accused of hitting his 6-week-old baby boy
several times in the back of the head and causing a traumatic injury.Police went to a home in the 300 block of Monterey Street
at about 3:30 p.m. to help a baby who was having breathing problems, according to the Bakersfield Police Department. Officers performed CPR on the child until medical help arrived. The baby was taken to Kern Medical Center
and was in critical condition Thursday afternoon, police said. Police arrested the child’s
father, Timothy Webb, 21, of Bakersfield on suspicion of attempted murder.
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Body of missing child found in Dumpster, father arrested
Associated Press - March 15, 2008 11:44 PM ET
MARTELL, Calif. (AP) - Officials found the body of a missing 2-year-old boy in a trash can hours after
arresting his father on suspicion of kidnapping and assault.
The El Dorado County Sheriff's Department says the body of Andrew Bailey was found Saturday in Martell,
a town in Amador County.
The boy's father, Charles Bailey, was arrested earlier Saturday in Sonora after officials say he assaulted
his girlfriend with an axe and nabbed the boy, Andew Bailey.
Scores of people volunteered in the sheriff's search effort once the boy disappeared.
Sheriff's Sgt. Bryan Golmitz says the investigation by local agencies is being aided by the FBI.
Information from: The Sacramento Bee, http://www.sacbee.com
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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3-year-old found dead; father arrested for murder
Story Published: Feb 26, 2008 at 2:28 PM EST
Story Updated: Feb 26, 2008 at 8:11 PM EST
By KSEE 24 News
A Dos Palos man has been arrested on murder charges in connection with the death of his 3-year-old daughter.
Police
said Liadan Wright was found dead at a home in the 1300 block of Dos Palos avenue Monday afternoon around 5 p.m.
Initially
Jericho Wright,26, was questioned and arrested on a neglect charge, after he told investigators that he returned from work
at 5:30 a.m. Monday to find the girl unresponsive.
When pressed further he admitted that around 3:00 p.m. on Sunday,
his daughter had wet her clothes for the second time. Frustrated, Jericho threw her into the shower, causing Liadan to hit
her head.
Later that evening she said she was sleepy and went to bed.
At 3:30 a.m., Jericho said he checked
on her and found her sleeping and decided to leave her there while he went to work delivering newspapers.
When he
came home two hours later, he found her dead. At that point he went back to work to finish his paper route and didn't come
home until 9:00 a.m. Monday morning.
Jericho told investigators he tried to commit suicide by drinking a bottle of
wine and a bottle of champagne and taking some pills, but when he awoke around 5:30 p.m. Monday night he called 911.
He
is being held in Merced Jail without bail.
Police said Jericho and the girl's mother,who lives in the Los Banos area,
were seperated and shared custody of the girl.
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The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Eureka man yesterday while investigating a report of possible child
abuse.
At about 1 p.m. Tuesday, sheriff’s deputies and personnel from Humboldt County Social Services Child Welfare Services
and the Humboldt County Department of Public Health responded to a residence in the 5200 block of Vance Avenue in Eureka.
They met with a child who had what appeared to be third-degree burns on the his ankle and other, less severe burns on his
face.
The child’s father, David William Bollig, 28, indicated that the child was burned while Bollig was holding him, a
news release from the HCSO stated. Bollig had ignited black powder near the child in an effort to discipline him, according
to the release. The injuries were approximately five days old and the child had not received medical care from a medical professional.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested Bollig on suspicion of inflicting unjustifiable pain/mental suffering on a child and
failure to provide, the release stated. His bail was set at $50,000 and he was released from custody after posting bail. He
is scheduled to be arraigned on Jan. 23.
The victim and a younger sibling were removed from the home and placed in protective custody pending further investigation,
according to the release.
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Richmond Mother Arrested In Child's Torture Death
October 30, 2006
Mother of an 8-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of child
endangerment, torture and murder in what police were calling one of the most disturbing crimes ever investigated by the Richmond
Police Department.
"Based on the obvious physical abuse, it's just horrific what this child went through,"
said Lt. Mark Gagan.
The boy was identified as Raijon Daniels.
Police believe that the child had been abused for months and possibly years before being murdered, Gagan
said.
He was home-schooled for at least this year, Gagan said.
Rescuers received a call for help at about 5:15 p.m. Saturday that led them to the 700 block of S. 40th
St. in Richmond. The boy was unresponsive when they arrived, according to Richmond police. He was taken to Kaiser Permanente
Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
His mother, 23-year-old Teresa Moses, was taken to the police department for questioning after the incident
and later arrested. She has been booked into county jail.
If convicted of all the charges, Moses could face a life sentence, Gagan said.
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Marin man gets 200 years for molesting daughter's classmates
Wednesday, August 1, 2007 16:21 PDT SAN RAFAEL -- A 65-year-old
Terra Linda man was sentenced today to 200 years in prison for molesting three grammar-school classmates of his young daughter
during sleepover parties in the family home.
Robert Alan Girard was sentenced in Marin County Superior Court in connection with the molestations, which
occurred from 2003 to 2006 and involved 8-and-9-year-old girls, Deputy District Attorney Linda Witong said.
Girard was already a registered sex offender following a 1980 conviction in connection with
unlawful sex with a 9-year-old girl.
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January 27, 2007
By Vickie Welborn
MANSFIELD — A Frierson couple was jailed Friday in connection with the sexual assault of a 7-year-old
child, DeSoto authorities said.
Bartolo Bernal, who is an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is charged with multiple counts of aggravated incest,
DeSoto sheriff’s Cpl. Adam Ewing said.
Asked to clarify the number of charges, Ewing responded, “I can’t tell you. I lost count.”
Bartolo Bernal’s wife, Miranda Bernal, 28, was booked into the DeSoto Parish Detention Center, too, and charged with
accessory after the fact to aggravated incest.
She is alleged to have been aware of the sexual assault for about six months but only reported it Thursday, said Sgt. Brett
Cooper.
Investigators believe the assault has been going on for about five years.
The victim was taken into state custody Friday, as were five siblings, Ewing said
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Foster child, 2, killed by father
Foster mom says county missed abuse signs.
By JENIFER B. McKIM
The Orange County Register
Foster mother Nancy Perez cried after she saw the sad state of the little girl she'd
cared for through infancy.
Miranda Davila, who'd recently returned to her parents, was thin and withdrawn. The 2-year-old
had clumps of hair missing from her head.
Perez called the social worker to warn him.
”I told him, ‘Something
is wrong. She looks really bad,' ” said Perez, who has more than 20 years of experience caring for medically fragile
children in Cypress. “He said he would take care of it.”
The next call, months later, was from the police.
Miranda was dead.
The little girl had been found unconscious in a filthy motel room with a skull fracture and bruises
on her face, neck, back and buttocks. There was spoiled, moldy food in the refrigerator and maggot-infested food in the bathtub,
a county report said. It was October 2003.
Miranda's father, Salvador Davila, was charged with killing his daughter
by pushing her into a wall. He is serving 25 years to life in prison for her death. The mother, who initially said she caused
the accident, recanted, saying she was trying to protect the father, court documents show.
Perez and the girl's grandmother,
Angela Miranda, say the 2-year-old should not have been returned to her parents, who lived in a cramped motel room and struggled
with drug addiction. They believe the social worker should have seen signs of abuse.
“How could (the social worker)
look at the baby and do nothing?” asked the grandmother, who says she also called the social worker with worries about
Miranda's weight and hair loss.
The social worker, Daniel Whitehurst, declined to comment, citing agency policy prohibiting
workers from talking about their work.
Michael Riley, director of the county's Children and Family Services, wouldn't
speak specifically about the case except to say social workers are one part of a team of people who decide a child's fate.
He added that situations can change from good to bad quickly.
Robert Hutson, presiding judge of the Juvenile Court,
said the court thought Miranda Davila was being protected.
“I couldn't imagine the bench officer allowing the
child to stay there if they had an inkling,” Hutson said after reading reports of her death. “I'm looking at the
reports here that says … that they were living in squalor. ... It seems to me it was a change in situation. It's what
I hope to believe.”
Miranda is one of at least three Orange County children who died since January 2000 after
being returned by the Juvenile Court and social workers to their parents.
Details of Miranda Davila's story were revealed
in a child death review written by the county Social Services Agency and obtained by The Orange County Register.
The
report showed Salvador Davila asked his social worker to delay his daughter's return until he and his wife could find suitable
housing.
The social worker agreed. But a juvenile court judge, pressed to unite families in short order, returned Miranda
Davila to them in March 2003. After a 60-day trial period, the social worker reported the family appeared to be doing well
despite the housing situation.
Yana Kennedy, the girl's court-appointed attorney, said she learned only later that
Miranda's home life was deteriorating. The motel room was cluttered and the girl had small bruises, she read in a report after
the girl's death.
Kennedy said these signs indicated a drug relapse.
“The father was losing it. He picked
her up and slammed her against the wall,'' Kennedy said. “I wish the social worker had told us things were deteriorating.
We would have sent someone out unannounced. ... It might or might not have made a difference.”
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November 17th, 2006
 A hot tipper sent along a story about two parents who make Brandon Alan Austill, the dad who cattle-prodded his own baby, look like a canonized saint. Terry and Chandy Indula’s
3-year-old daughter is close to death after being tortured by the dad and stepmom for months on end. Authorities in Modesto, California say that there wasn’t an inch of the girl not covered in blisters,
and that her body temp when they found her was 79 degrees. The last official word is that the girl may survive, but with permanent
brain damage.
The Indulas - he a real estate broker, she a stay-at-home abuser er, “mother” -
have admitted to the abuse. Their other kids have been taken into state custody; some of them show signs of abuse
as well.
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ORANGE COUNTY MAN SENTENCED TO 25 YEARS IN PRISON FOR PRODUCING SEXUALLY EXPLICIT VIDEOS OF HIS OWN CHILD
Los Angeles, CA - A resident of La Habra was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison
after pleading guilty to producing child pornography and admitting that he sexually abused his young daughter and distributed
videos of the attacks on the Internet.
Jed Philip Larson Sr., 45, was sentenced by United States District Judge Cormac
J. Carney. After completing his prison term, Larson will be on supervised release for the rest of his life.
Larson
pleaded guilty on May 22 to one count of producing child pornography. Larson admitted that he sexually molested his daughter
when she was between 4 and 7 years of age, recorded the attacks with a webcam and broadcast still images and videos of the
attacks on the Internet.
Images of the attacks were first discovered by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) in Killeen, Texas while examining a computer seized from Wesley Whitcomb. The investigation revealed that
Whitcomb met Larson in an Internet chat room where Larson was webcasting images of a molestation of his daughter. Agents recovered
numerous image and movie files of Larson's daughter on Whitcomb's computer.
Independently, ICE agents in Indiana discovered
a computer belonging to Craig Macpherson that contained thousands of still images and movie files of Larson's daughter being
sexually abused, molested and exploited. ICE agents recovered more than 11,000 images and movie files of Larson's daughter
from Macpherson's computer.
ICE subsequently identified and located Larson. On September 8, 2005, law enforcement executed
a search warrant at Larson's residence, arrested Larson, and rescued Larson's daughter.
Larson is also being prosecuted
by the Orange County District Attorney's Office for the sexual abuse of his daughter. He is scheduled to proceed to trial
in Orange County Superior Court on January 26.
"This sentence is fully merited by defendant's criminal actions, in
which he took advantage of his position of power over his daughter to horribly abuse her," said Acting United States Attorney
George S. Cardona. "No sentence can make up for the harm this man has caused his own daughter, but the lengthy sentence imposed
today will at least ensure that this defendant will never again sexually victimize his daughter or anyone else's child."
Robert
Schoch, Special Agent in Charge of the ICE Office of Investigations in Los Angeles stated: "Today's sentencing is gratifying
for two reasons. First, it sends a clear message about the heinous nature of this defendant's actions. But, perhaps more importantly,
it reminds us that because of our joint law enforcement efforts, a little girl has been rescued from a horrific situation
and given a second chance at childhood."
Whitcomb is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence for his conviction
on child pornography charges.
Macpherson is serving a prison term of 17 1/2 years in federal prison.
The federal
case is the product of an extensive investigation by ICE. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Orange County Sheriff's
Department and the Huntington Beach Police Department provided substantial assistance.
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