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davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
Fri Apr 4, 2014, 03:58 PM Apr 2014

Mother who killed 4 year old son because she thought he was gay has been convicted of murder

The Oregonian reports that Jessica Dutro, 25, has been found guilty of murder, murder by abuse and second-degree assault in the death of her son, Zachary Dutro-Boggess. The verdict was unanimous.

Prosecutors say Zachary died on Aug. 16, 2012 of blunt-force trauma to his abdomen and a delay in medical treatment, according to reports.

Court documents cited by KATU and other media outlets described a series of Facebook messages between Dutro and her boyfriend, Brian Canady, in which she said she believed Zachary was gay. Using an anti-gay slur, she suggested Canady, 24, "work on" her son: “He walks and talks like it. Ugh.”

Although the messages were deemed admissible evidence, prosecutors didn't emphasize them in their arguments to the jury, instead focusing primarily on testimony from a therapist for Dutro's 8-year-old daughter, according to an earlier report in The Oregonian.

“Zach, he’s my real dad and Brian is my stepdad. My mom is Jessica," she said, according to the therapist."They would punch me and slap me. They beat my brother up, then he died. I seen them.”


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/03/jessica-dutro-murder-conviction-_n_5085611.html

It took the jury less than hour to return the guilty verdict.

The boyfriend, Brian Canady, plead guilty last month to manslaughter.
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Mother who killed 4 year old son because she thought he was gay has been convicted of murder (Original Post) davidn3600 Apr 2014 OP
Can barely process this whatchamacallit Apr 2014 #1
Poor little guy...he deserved way better parents. CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2014 #2
Speechless... Earth Bound Misfit Apr 2014 #3

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,629 posts)
2. Poor little guy...he deserved way better parents.
Fri Apr 4, 2014, 04:06 PM
Apr 2014

Even though he can't be brought back, I must say justice has been done..........or at least the best we can do.

It just breaks my heart to see people murdering their children.

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