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Suspected Illegal Aliens Accused of Brutally Beating 1-Year-Old to Near Death, Recording Abuse
Breitbart ^ | May 11, 2026 | John Binder

Posted on 05/11/2026 8:35:28 PM PDT by Morgana

A one-year-old baby is in a St. Louis County, Missouri, hospital with brain bleeding after being brutally beaten and tortured by two suspected illegal aliens, who allegedly recorded the abuse.

Antonio Belli-Espejo, 27 years old, and Irais Martinez Santos, 26 years old, have been arrested and charged with one count of felony child abuse each after a one-year-old baby was found unresponsive in an Overland, Missouri, apartment.

When first responders arrived at the scene, the baby was unconscious and began having a seizure. The child was rushed to a nearby children’s hospital and is suffering from brain bleeding.

Belli-Espejo and Santos, who reside in the same apartment building as the baby, were arrested after police executed a search warrant and discovered that the child’s abuse had been recorded.

Police allege that Belli-Espejo and Santos can be seen in the recording tying the baby to a chair, gagging the child, and hitting the baby before slamming it to the ground.

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) wrote on X that Americans “don’t have to live like this” and continued with “We need mass deportations.” Schmitt also chided the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for burying, in the last sentence of their story on the case, that the suspects are “believed to be” illegal aliens.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: antoniobelliespejo; childabuse; ericschmitt; illegalimmigration; illegals; iraismartinezsantos; missouri; snufffilms; socialmedia; stlouiscounty
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1 posted on 05/11/2026 8:35:28 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

This is why all illegal aliens have to go. This kind hides among the “good ones”.


2 posted on 05/11/2026 8:40:01 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: AuntB
the “good ones”.

LOL! ... "good ones" ...

3 posted on 05/11/2026 8:45:16 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Morgana

Bring back public hangings


4 posted on 05/11/2026 8:51:00 PM PDT by PGR88
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👍🏻


5 posted on 05/11/2026 8:58:46 PM PDT by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: Morgana

The last name for one of those cruel idiots is Espejo.
How ironic, if I am correct, the word “Espejo” is one of the words for “Mirror” in Spanish.

Too bad he did not take a moment to ‘reflect’ on how his horrible actions were going to set this child up for a life of pain, brain damage and probably nerve damage.


6 posted on 05/11/2026 9:04:06 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Morgana

“Belli-Espejo and Santos, who reside in the same apartment building as the baby, were arrested“

Huh. When I was a baby I didn’t have my own apartment. This article is really, really bad.

So where is Mom and Dad in this story?


7 posted on 05/11/2026 9:04:52 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Morgana

Did hordes of Democrat women swarm the leos to protect the perps?


8 posted on 05/11/2026 9:07:59 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: Morgana
I read through the article several times, but I still am not sure if the baby was theirs or somebody else's.

Belli-Espejo and Santos, who reside in the same apartment building as the baby,

WTH does that mean?

9 posted on 05/11/2026 9:09:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If it ain't fun, you ain't doin' it right.)
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The craven cowardly mindset of these lowlife evil illegals
........doing harm to an innocent baby who cannot fight back........


10 posted on 05/11/2026 9:10:23 PM PDT by Liz (Winston Churchill: “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”)
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To: Morgana

All I can think of is my own 2 babies, born 2 years apart. Absolutely precious little balls of love.
Hope and pray for poor little baby in this story to recover fully in mind, boy and spirit. Hard though, to believe it will.


11 posted on 05/11/2026 9:16:01 PM PDT by Veto! ((Trump is Superman))
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To: Morgana

Liberals can all say, “Thank you, Joe Biden”.


12 posted on 05/11/2026 9:19:38 PM PDT by simpson96
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“LOL! ... “good ones” ...”

That’s what “they” keep telling us. ;<)


13 posted on 05/11/2026 9:52:18 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Veto!

>> Hope and pray for poor little baby in this story to recover fully in mind, boy and spirit. Hard though, to believe it will.

Amen. With GOD all things are possible.


14 posted on 05/11/2026 10:41:51 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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>> This is why all illegal aliens have to go.

Find and deport every last one of them. Every one. They are ALL criminals. Every single one.


15 posted on 05/11/2026 10:43:14 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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Mug shot Antonio Belli-Espejo, child beater.

16 posted on 05/11/2026 10:44:56 PM PDT by Liz (Winston Churchill: “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”)
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Mug shot, Irais Martinez Santos, child beater.

17 posted on 05/11/2026 10:48:28 PM PDT by Liz (Winston Churchill: “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”)
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To: Nervous Tick

Thank you for that reminder. I’m literally in tears. lGood thing it’s time for bed.


18 posted on 05/11/2026 10:49:07 PM PDT by Veto! ((Trump is Superman))
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To: Veto!

Good night!


19 posted on 05/11/2026 10:54:41 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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One report says the two child beaters were hired as baby sitters.


20 posted on 05/11/2026 11:34:32 PM PDT by Liz (Winston Churchill: “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”)
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