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A toddler is dead, and another young boy, his older brother, could spend the rest of this life in prison as punishment. The question is - is charging a 12-year-old boy with first-degree murder, and trying him as an adult (a charge which carries a mandatory life sentence), a boy who was severely neglected and abused his entire life by those who were supposed to protect him, really servingjustice?
It was Monday, March 14th, 2011, when 2-year-old David Galarraga was left at his Jacksonville, Florida home, under the supervision and care of his older half-brother, Cristian Fernandez, despite the fact that Cristian had already broken David's leg while wrestling with him months beforehand. What happened that day would change both of their lives forever, and has sparked a very emotional andheated debate about the way the judicial system handles juveniles accused of serious and heinous crimes.
While the story of what exactly occurred that day has changed many times, the basic facts are still the same: at some point while his mother was gone, 12-year-old Cristian became physically abusive with his 2-year-old brother, and shoved him very roughly into a bookshelf, twice. Later that day,upon his mother arriving home, Cristian, who was worried about his brother, took her to see David immediately, who was unconscious by that time. For some reason, their mother, 25-year-old Biannela Susana, chose simply to change the babies clothes, wipe the blood off his face, and put ice on his head, rather than calling 911 or rushing him to the hospital immediately, despite the fact that he wasunconscious and unresponsive. Susana said that she was hoping it was just a concussion and that he would wake up. She waited over 4 hours, while poor David remained unconscious, before finally taking him to the hospital. David remained there, fighting hard for his life, for 2 days before he finally succumbed to his injuries and passed away.
As for the more than 4 hours that Biannela Susana waitedbefore seeking medical care for her son; she spent most of that time on the internet. She took the time to do some online banking, watched some music videos on YouTube, read some news stories online about Pippa Middleton, as well as David & Victoria Beckham, and checked her email. She did some other searches periodically while on the computer, including the phrase "when someone gets knocked out",she also visited the Wikipedia page for "coma", and visited a website about concussions multiple times, none of which seemed to have scared her or propelled her into action.
She finally did her last web search, for the address of the hospital which she would then drive her son to, and where he would eventually die, over 4 hours after she returned home and found him unconscious. David died 2 dayslater from his injuries, which included a skull fracture caused by blunt force trauma, which caused bleeding on his brain, and was the ultimate cause of his death. In addition, he also suffered from a subdural hemorrhage, subdural hematoma, bruising on the left eye, and bruising on the bridge of his nose.
Those 4 hours, unfortunately, could have been what cost David his life, as Doctors toldSusana that if she had sought medical help immediately, he might have survived. For her part in her son's death, Biannela Susana was arrested on April 1st, 2011, and has been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child under 18 years by culpable negligence. This is due not only to the fact that Susana did not seek medical treatment for her son immediately, but also because she was fully aware thatCristian was responsible previously for breaking David's leg, but she still chose to leave David alone with him.
Cristian Fernandez was initially arrested for Aggravated Child Abuse on March 14th, 2011, but after David's death, on June 3rd of 2011, his was indicted for first-degree murder.
The real question we need to ask ourselves as the citizens whose rely on the judicial system to serve...