Posted on 01/12/2008 11:34:25 AM PST by Lorianne
Marcos Gomez-Romero told sheriff's detectives he wanted a son.
Every time he looked at his baby girl, Gomez-Romero said he grew annoyed and angry because she was not the boy he had hoped for.
Gomez-Romero told detectives that abusing his daughter, Ariana Lizeth Rodriguez-Romero, became such a "habit" that he slapped her while she slept.
Ariana died Christmas Day. She was 4 months old.
On Thursday, a Polk County grand jury indicted Gomez-Romero, 28, on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse for Ariana's death.
A medical examiner found dozens of internal and external injuries on Ariana's body. The infant had five new fractures on her ribs and more than a dozen old fractures. There was a hematoma and a cut on her spleen. Her liver was bruised, as was her jaw.
When questioned by a Polk County sheriff's detective the day after Ariana died, Gomez-Romero said he was angry when his daughter was born because he wanted a son, reports said.
Gomez-Romero, who lives in Winter Haven, told a detective he called his daughter an "ugly girl, a prostitute and deny [sic] she was his daughter," a Sheriff's Office report said.
Gomez-Romero said he picked Ariana up by her hands to carry her. He said he spanked her several times out of anger because she would not stop crying.
When a detective asked Gomez-Romero what a 4-month-old could do to warrant such severe punishment, the report said he stated, "Nothing."
"Gomez-Romero made it clear that his anger and hostility towards his daughter was due to the fact that she was a girl and he had wanted a son," the sheriff's report said.
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Here’s hoping Big Bubba doesn’t want a man as his cellmate and fixes the problem.
Damn. I have three boys and no girls. I guess I should start offing each boy. lol. We are trying for another child and don’t care what sex he or she is.
I’ve got him in the crosshairs...
What the hell does "culture" have to do with this?
Because in several cultures, men want only boys as offspring. In China they have drowned baby girls for centuries. In Latin America girls often suffer similar fates, sold into sex slavery or prostitution.
That wouldn't have done a thing - they would have told her to file a report and to call when he actually did something.
Wonder how many “lifers” in the pokey he’s going to have daughters?
This beast looks retarded. Seriously.
He looks mentally s - l - o - w like AlGore.
Because in several cultures, men want only boys as offspring.
And, in just about all cultures, women want to marry men with money.
Even in American culture, given the choice for an only child, fathers will prefer a son even if they won't publicly admit it.
That does not mean that the knocking off your kids is an accepted part of the "culture" unless you are referring to the "culture of sickos" which this man, Susan Smith and Andrea Yates all belonged to.
I could do it very slowly, and make lotsa money by making it a Pay per View event.”
As much as I dislike China’s policy of organ harvesting. This is a case for it. Get some use out this POS. Type and cross match him for being an organ donor and if he is disease free he goes to the head of line. The donor line not the recpipient line. Next time some needs a kidney or corneas its “Oh Marcos the doctor called and he wants to see you”
This bonafide creep needs to share a cell on death row with the other creep who threw his 4 children from a bridge to drown them earlier this week.
I agree, I’m a mother, and I love all my children equally, but my husband and I just discussed it, and I’d rather have a girl (limited to one child of course) and he’d prefer a boy. Of course he likes to spend more time with our middle child, who happens to be a girl, so I find that more of a intellectual process decision than what he’d really want. But I think males want another male and females probably want another female. I don’t think it’s a cultural thing so much as a genetic thing? But I have to say that our best friends/neighbors are a doctor and his wife who are from Caracas, and he loves his daughters very much and I can’t say he’s ever thought about sending his daughter into prostitution so maybe the “Latin American” remark in this thread is a little far reaching, seeing that he is from South America.
As a Christian, we are supposed to pray for the salvation of all humanity, but I find myself hoping that Marcos Gomez-Romero is too evil or too stupid to avail himself of God’s greatest Gift to us all.
God forgive me.
He sure must have been one hell of a good lay & provider, if Mommy was so frightened that he would leave if she reported the abuse.
And he already has a son, so it isn't like this was his first, and right after getting ehr pregnant, he was accidentally neutered by his fellow gan-bangers.
Only drugs & alcohol can make a 28 YO so damned mean & look that old & used up.
Geez, and all kings used to do was behead the mother (or perhaps just divorce her) when she failed to produce a boy.
Where *was* the mother all this time?
Illegals?
To slap her when she was asleep; she had to wake to this monster! Sick sick sick. Events like this is when I would be for public draw and quarter and disembowelment of this creep.
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