Name: Yonatan Daniel Aguilar.
Died: August 22, 2016.
Age at death: 11.
Cause of death: Starvation.
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA.
Disability: Autism.
Details:
When Yonatan’s teachers reported that he was hungry, stealing food, and had come to school with a black eye, Yonatan’s mother decided to take him out of school. She told everyone she had sent him to Mexico to a special school. Instead, she allegedly locked him in the closet.
Police say that for three years before his death, Yonatan’s mother locked him up, abused him, and fed him very little; to keep him quiet, she sedated him with sleeping pills for so long that he developed pressure sores from not moving. Yonatan died of starvation, weighing 34 pounds.
Case status: Veronica Aguilar (Mother), convicted of child abuse and first-degree murder, sentenced to 25 years to life.
Source:
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