Pearl Sinthia Fernandez

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.

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.

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 on Feb. 15, 2018 to a murder charge.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

An LA County Department of Children and Family Services supervisor who was fired in the wake of the torture death of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez will be reinstated, a judge ruled Tuesday.

A forensic nurse testified during a grand jury hearing for the mother and her boyfriend accused of torturing and killing Gabriel Fernandez, said the wounds the boy suffered were “not normal of a little 8-year-old boy.”

Prosecutors announced Wednesday that the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office will seek the death penalty against a Palmdale couple charged with capital murder in the beating death of the woman’s 8-year-old son.

A Palmdale mother and her boyfriend pleaded not guilty to one count each of capital murder in connection with the fatal 2013 beating of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez.