Isauro Aguirre

A judge Tuesday rejected a bid for re-sentencing by a Palmdale woman who pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of her 8-year-old son, who was routinely beaten, starved, forced to sleep in a closet and tortured until his death eight years ago. Pearl Fernandez, now 37, was sentenced in March 2018 to life in prison without the possibility of parole…

After ten months of investigation, authorities arrested and charged a 21-year-old mother in the death of her child from blunt force neck trauma.

The great-grandmother of a 4-year-old Palmdale boy whose death was originally reported as a drowning but has led to an investigation of possible child abuse filed a multimillion-dollar damages claims against the county, the first step toward a lawsuit, her attorney announced Wednesday.

A boy who died Saturday under suspicious circumstances in Palmdale could have been removed from the custody of his parents in May, the NBC4 I-Team has learned.

An investigation was underway Wednesday into the death of a 4-year-old Palmdale boy who was reported to have been injured in a near drowning but had trauma injuries that raised suspicion about how he died.

A controversial photo showing teachers and school employees posing with a noose was at the center of a meeting with the school district in Palmdale.

The mother of an 8-year-old Palmdale boy was sentenced to prison for life and her boyfriend will be sent to death row for the child’s torture death, a case that the judge called “nothing short of evil.”

The mother of an 8-year-old Palmdale boy who was routinely beaten, starved, forced to sleep in a closet and tortured until his 2013 death pleaded guilty Thursday to a murder charge.

A jury recommended that a Palmdale man be sentenced to death for the May 2013 torture-murder of his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son. Ted Chen reports for NBC4 News on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017.

A jury recommended Wednesday that a Palmdale man be sentenced to death for the torture-murder of his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son, who was repeatedly shot with a BB gun, beaten and forced to sleep in a small cabinet with his hands and feet bound and his mouth gagged.

Jurors began their first full day of deliberations Tuesday in the penalty trial of a Palmdale man convicted of the torture- murder of his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son.

One-time co-workers of a Palmdale man convicted of the torture-murder of his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son testified Monday that the man they knew was compassionate, kind and worth saving rather than condemned to death.

A former security guard convicted of the torture-murder of his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son deserves “nothing less than death,” a prosecutor told jurors Monday, while a defense attorney said “there are reasons to spare his life.”

A former security guard convicted of the torture-murder of his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son deserves “nothing less than death,” a prosecutor told jurors Monday, while a defense attorney said “there are reasons to spare his life.”

A guilty verdict was handed down to the man responsible for torturing and killing his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son, Gabriel Fernandez. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017.

A Palmdale man was convicted Wednesday of the torture- killing of his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son, whose short life and agonizing death also led to a murder charge against his mother and criminal counts against social workers accused of ignoring his plight.

Jurors heard a gut-wrenching account of an 8-year-old boy’s final moments alive when attorneys delivered closing arguments Monday in the torture-murder trial of a Palmdale man accused in the child’s death.

The older brother of an 8-year-old Palmdale boy who was allegedly tortured and killed by his mother and her boyfriend in May 2013 recounted a harrowing tale of abuse Wednesday, telling a jury that his sibling was forced to eat cat litter and cat feces and was repeatedly beaten in the months leading up to his death.

An attorney acknowledged Monday that a Palmdale man committed “unspeakable acts of abuse” against his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son before “exploding into a rage of anger” that the defense maintains resulted in the boy’s unintentional death, but a prosecutor said the youngster was systematically tortured because the defendant believed the child was gay.

A jury is set Monday to begin hearing the case against a Palmdale man who is charged, along with his girlfriend, with capital murder in the beating death of the woman’s 8-year-old son.