Man kills 3-year-old boy for being a "sissy"!

[SzczerbiakManiac]

I think I may have posted the initial news report on this a while back, but I couldn't find it on a search. It may have been on another board.

Since the report is pretty disturbing (though I would describe it as work safe), I'm going to spoiler it. Proceed with caution.

Spoiler:

Originally posted by The Press Enterprise

Son's death brings 6-year term

STATE PRISON: A judge sentences the mother to the maximum term for child endangerment.

3:40 PM PDT on Tuesday, August 15, 2006

By SANDRA STOKLEY
The Press-Enterprise

RIVERSIDE - Two days after what would have been Michael "Mikey" Vallejo-Seiber's fourth birthday, his mother learned she will spend six years in prison for failing to protect her son from the men who now stand accused of torturing and beating the boy to death.

Despite Pamela Seiber's tearful pleas for leniency, Riverside Superior Court Judge Janice McIntyre sentenced the young woman to the maximum sentence for child endangerment. Her name is spelled Sieber in court documents.

"If I could change anything in my life, I would change when I met Alex," Seiber, 23, sobbed. "My son was my best friend."

Alex Mendoza is her former boyfriend, a 27-year-old Inland rapper charged in Mikey's death. Also charged in the boy's death is Richard Daniel Cox, 20.

Seiber and Mendoza brought the boy, who was not breathing, to Riverside Community Hospital on Aug. 28.

After he was resuscitated, Mikey was transferred to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where he died Aug. 29 of massive internal injuries.

An investigator in the case testified earlier this month that Mikey was kicked, burned with a lighter, dropped on his head and forced to eat his own feces on the night of Aug. 27-28 before Mendoza put him to bed.

Seiber was at work at the time.

Cox and Mendoza have been charged with murder with the special circumstance of torture and assault on a child resulting in great bodily injury or death, meaning they are eligible for the death penalty if prosecutors request it.

Mendoza is charged also with abusing his now-deceased father, Marcellino Mendoza.

After three days of testimony that started last month, Judge Elisabeth Sichel said she would announce at 4 p.m. today whether to hold the two men for trial.*

During a courtroom break after Seiber's sentencing, paramedics were called to treat the woman for an anxiety attack. Seiber is fourth months pregnant.

Bill Seiber, Pamela Seiber's father, called the sentence "excessive."

"She recognized that she bore responsibility," Seiber said, noting that his daughter had voluntarily entered a guilty plea in May. The boy's father, Francisco Vallejo, is in state prison.

After the break, a handcuffed Seiber took the stand to testify at the preliminary hearing for the two men.

Calmly, Seiber recounted how she had met Mendoza at Fantasies, the strip club where she performed in July 2005. In early August, Seiber and her son began spending time at Mendoza's Rubidoux home.

Seiber said Mendoza was openly critical of her child-rearing methods, calling Mikey "a sissy" who needed to be toughened up. Mendoza said he wanted to make Mikey "a soldier" and at one point urged him to beat up his Elmo doll, Seiber said.

Five days before her son was admitted to the hospital, Seiber said, she broke it off after she saw Mendoza slapping her son on the back of the head.

"I told him not to hit my son," she said.

But she returned when Mendoza promised to be more affectionate with the boy.

I am simply stunned that anyone (I can't even imagine Fred Phelps doing this) in the world could be so intensely stupid. I haven't the vocabulary to describe how vile this man is.

I think Alex Mendoza deserves to be slowly tortured to death over the next 20 years. However, without knowing the exact details of her involvement (or lack thereof), I'm not so sure Pamela Seiber deserves a prison sentence. I am sure she deserves a total hysterectomy. (Yes, I know, unconstitutional, blab blah blah....) What do y'all think?


*Judge Sichel has ruled that there is sufficient evidence to try Alex.

[Capt Jack]

20 years of torture is a waste on such a walking POS.

a .22 in the base of the skull and call it a day. even then its a waste of ammo on such a piece of human fecal matter. I also find it pathetic that this person saw it as 'making a real man' out of him when he so obviously lacked that quality himself.

her...thats a tough one. yeah, she failed to protect her son from this monster but prison I dont think will help her any. shes lost her son for her inaction...thats a pretty high price in its own right.

[Nephythys]

This is the second story like this I have heard- the other was a woman who stood by, in the same room, while her boyfriend beat her toddler daughter to death because she ate the guys sausage.

No- those women have NOT suffered enough.

[tracilicious]

Yeah that. If someone beat my kids to death I highly doubt I would care if I spent the next six years in jail. But sadly, women stay with abusive men all the time. She probably really believed that he wouldn't touch the kid again. Doesn't mean she's not an idiot.

I do think this is different from the story sixish months ago where the dad was afraid the three year old would turn out gay and beat him. The kid was in shock for three days and stopped eating and going to the bathroom before he died and the mom didn't even take him to the hospital. These people make me wish I believed in hell.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Riverside is the sh!thole where I grew up.

And my mom wonders why I hate driving out there.

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Yeah that. If someone beat my kids to death I highly doubt I would care if I spent the next six years in jail. But sadly, women stay with abusive men all the time. She probably really believed that he wouldn't touch the kid again. Doesn't mean she's not an idiot.

Someone lays a hand on my kids and they're the ones who will end up damaged. I would die to protect mine- what the HELL us wrong with a mother who wouldn't?

These people make me wish I believed in hell.

I believe enough for both of us.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Sheesh- there are worse things to grow up than being a sissy. Guy deserves a whole lot of bad coming his way.

Mom probably believed the boyfriend when he said he'd be nicer to the kid. Not real bright. Certainly not smart to leave the guy alone with your kid while you go to work but maybe she didn't have many options. He was just a kid so she couldn't leave him alone.

[Jughead P. Jones]

One thing is for certain...there's a spot in hell that is reserved for these sick and twisted individuals.

I can't even fathom why anyone would do that to a child.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Capt Jack

20 years of torture is a waste on such a walking POS.

a .22 in the base of the skull and call it a day. even then its a waste of ammo on such a piece of human fecal matter.

Having read my share of probation reports, I'd hazard a guess that the two men grew up in homes that were fairly similar to the one the poor kid lived in.

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

Having read my share of probation reports, I'd hazard a guess that the two men grew up in homes that were fairly similar to the one the poor kid lived in.

BFD. We all choose what kind of people to become. Having lived through hell is not an excuse to put others through hell.