Posted on 12/20/2007 6:36:25 PM PST by frankjr
Johnstown - A quiet, working-class neighborhood in this small town 40 miles north of Denver quickly became distraught over the news of the death of a popular 7-year-old girl, who allegedly died from abuse by her older sister and her boyfriend.
Zoe Garcia, who was described as "a beautiful little girl", died on Dec. 6 from "blunt force trauma" to her brain and central nervous system, according to the Weld County Coroner. Her right wrist was broken, her body had more than 20 bruises, her neck muscles were bleeding and a skin flap near her tongue had been torn.
Zoe's older sister, Heather Trujillo, 16, and her boyfriend, Lamar Roberts, 17, of Westminster, were arrested Tuesday and charged with child abuse resulting in death, a Class II felony.
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Trujillo said they were acting out the video game "Mortal Combat" by savagely hitting and kicking Zoe, even dropping her on her side, which broke her wrist. Roberts, who claimed to be a martial-arts expert with his hands registered as "lethal weapons, said Zoe had asked him to stop hitting her but that he didn't because "...I was drunk."
Roberts said he had performed a back kick on her, then kicked her again as she ran toward him. She fell back and didn't get up. She had stopped breathing, and Trujillo and Roberts waited 15 minutes before calling for help.
They said they put her in a bath, which temporarily revived her, but that she stopped breathing again. Roberts said he cracked an egg in her mouth "to see if she was messing around with them."
The egg went down her throat, the affidavit stated.
Finally, the mother and paramedics were called. Zoe was taken to the Northern Colorado Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.
The "Babysitters": 
According to another article: "Each faces one count of child abuse resulting in death, a Class 2 felony. If convicted, the sentence can range from 16 to 48 years. Roberts and Trujillo are being charged as adults. They are scheduled to make their first appearance in court Friday."Link
Forty-eight years doesn’t sound like enough time.
Sad, sad, sad to say, I've read worse.
Life in prison seems fitting.
Life in prison seems fitting.
True.
Looks like a damned neandertal!
Death by hanging seems more fitting. Oh, and stuff an egg down his throat.
The girl looks like she is about 9 years old and the guy looks much older than 17.
When you have a “teenager” who is this size and that strong, I vote to put them all into the ADULT system of justice.
Cannot convince me that either one of them deserves to be tried as a child.
ALSO_ WHO gave them the liqour for him to get drunk?
Hope both of them never see the light of day again. I will donate a bullet or two to end them now.
She ain’t no neandertal , she’s his hoe (sp),and quick death is to good for either one of them..
Death by hanging seems more fitting. Oh, and stuff an egg down his throat.
Works for me!
“Oh, and stuff an egg down his throat.”
The egg is probably what actually killed her. I’m guessing in went into her lungs and not her stomach.
Freaking barbarians.
Louisville slugger therapy.
Now playing everywhere. Get a gun.
I could ask where the parents were; obviously they must have known their 16 y.o. slut/angel was not an appropriate guardian for their, as yet, unruined daughter.
Yeah? well now you are registered as child murdering drunken idiot!
That was my thought.
Merry xmas
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