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   From: shooter@freedyn.de   
      
   A father accused of killing his six-year-old son by sexually   
   assaulting him with a stick would allegedly pull his teeth out with   
   pliers and force him to sleep in a dog cage, a court heard.   
      
   Mauricio Alejandro Torres is alleged to have violated his son   
   Maurice 'Isaiah' Torres on a camping trip as a punishment for eating   
   a piece of cake without permission.   
      
   The youngster developed a bacterial infection and died of septic   
   shock the next day in March 2015.   
      
   A jury heard on Monday that the six-year-old's parents would   
   allegedly beat their son with cables and shoes and gave him coal in   
   his stocking at Christmas, according to the Arkansas Democrat   
   Gazette.   
      
   Torres pleaded not guilty to capital murder and battery over the   
   death of Maurice at Benton County Circuit Court in Arkansas.   
      
   Isaiah's 12-year-old sister testified at the trial, and claims she   
   witnessed her parents pulling her brother's teeth with pliers and   
   made him sleep in a dog cage.   
      
   She also says he was forced to stay in a large trash can for a month   
   while she would often act as guard so he wouldn't escape to eat   
   food.   
      
   The sister claims that she was fed home-cooked meals and would dine   
   in restaurants, while Isaiah was fed rice and beans.   
      
   She told the court she witnessed her father beating him with a stick   
   - and he also made her and her twin sister beat him too.   
      
   'I did it because I was afraid because I might get beat if I didn't   
   do it,' she told the court according to the news outlet.   
      
   Isaiah's birthday was never celebrated and he was given coal on   
   Christmas Day, she told the court.   
      
   She also told jurors she remembered her mother pouring bleach over   
   her brother while her father scrubbed his skin.   
      
   The boy was said to have been forced to squat while the stick was in   
   his rectum and his mother Cathy injured him further by pushing him   
   to the ground with it inside him.   
      
   She was handed a life sentence after pleading guilty to capital   
   murder in March 2017.   
      
   He was sentenced to death in November 2016 but his conviction was   
   overturned last April because the alleged assault with a stick   
   happened in Missouri and not Arkansas.   
      
   Capital murder offences that carry the death penalty must have taken   
   place in the state where the prosecution is being brought, according   
   to state law.   
      
   Torres now faces a retrial at Benton County Circuit Court in   
   Arkansas on Thursday after his original convictions were overturned   
   on this technicality.   
      
   He faces life imprisonment or death if convicted of the murder   
   charge and from five to 20 years in jail if he is convicted of   
   battery.   
      
   His original trial heard testimony from a medical examiner who   
   stated that Isaiah's death was caused by a bacterial infection from   
   being violated with the stick, the news outlet reports.   
      
   The medical examiner noted that  Isaiah's nose was broken and   
   several teeth had been pulled out and he had numerous old and fresh   
   wounds on his head.   
      
   Prosecutors used allegations of other instances of child abuse   
   committed by Torres in Arkansas as grounds for the retrial on the   
   murder charge.   
      
   At the opening of the trial last week, the prosecution set out the   
   horrific details of the case.   
      
      
   'He suffered chronic child abuse syndrome. The pictures you will see   
   are ugly, grotesque.'   
      
   Smith alleged Isaiah had been abused for two years before his death   
   and in March 2015, when he was 'inflicted a death blow', he added.   
      
   During the first trial it emerged Arkansas' Department of Human   
   Services investigated allegations of child abuse against Torres and   
   his wife twice, a year before the death of their son.   
      
   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8074313/Arkansas-father-   
   accused-raping-son-death-stick.html   
      
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