The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez

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It's absolutly heart breaking. Been watching it on my phone at lunch at my desk and was crying today. That poor innocent little bit and even when he's been hurt and looked dreadful he still managed to raise a smile. I cannot comprehend what makes people do this... the 2 involved ( I won't say parents because that they are not) are evil b******s
RIP beautiful boy. You didn't deserve this x
 
It’s one of the hardest documentary’s I have ever watched ... my heart actually broke ❤️
the hardest part for me was seeing him smile in those last pictures at school holding up the mom letters ... he was so Visibly tortured. I would of scooped him up and taken him to the hospital and called the police and social workers ... he was failed by so many people x
 
Wellthisisinteresting said:
It’s one of the hardest documentary’s I have ever watched ... my heart actually broke ❤
the hardest part for me was seeing him smile in those last pictures at school holding up the mom letters ... he was so Visibly tortured. I would of scooped him up and taken him to the hospital and called the police and social workers ... he was failed by so many people x
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What killed me was those coupons he wrote for his mom. And he wrote “I will be good” Jesus bleeping christ that did me in 😢💔
 
I feel really sorry for his teacher. Yes, maybe there were things she could have done. Maybe not let him go home from school. But who knows how that might have gone? She could have ended up charged with false imprisonment or something, and lost her whole career. And Gabriel be sent home anyway. I’ve heard of mad stuff like that happening in America.

She will be tormented day and night thinking if she had done a b or c would things have been different. She reported the abuse multiple times to the service that was there to protect him, and they didn’t 😞

I can’t sleep thinking about what he suffered. I almost wish I hadn’t watched it. It’s another Junko Furuta for me. I had sleepless nights after hearing about her murder 😞
 
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Just finished episode three and have decided not to watch anymore. Just overwhelming feelings of anger. The poor child failed on so many levels. Mixed feeling about the teacher. Understand the position she was in to some degree BUT when a child who is clearly being abused at home cries and doesn't want to go on the school bus home that is the point that you have to do more. Personally, I couldn't have let him get the bus home. Would I have risked my career that I trained for - yes. Would I have risked losing my job - yes. I know it's easy to say but I couldn't have lived with myself if I'd let him get on that bus. RIP Gabriel.
 
Maybe I'll try and watch the rest. Like you say it would be doing him a diservice. I accept I will be upset watching it, who wouldn't feel like that but it's the bit regarding the social workers that enraged me so much. I think the older man that was a supervisor said something regarding his potential prosecution along the lines of "his life would be over". I thought I was going to put my glass through the bloody television. That boys life is over. Just no words for morons like that.
 
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Maybe I'll try and watch the rest. Like you say it would be doing him a diservice. I accept I will be upset watching it, who wouldn't feel like that but it's the bit regarding the social workers that enraged me so much. I think the older man that was a supervisor said something regarding his potential prosecution along the lines of "his life would be over". I thought I was going to put my glass through the bloody television. That boys life is over. Just no words for morons like that.
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It’s extremely infuriating. I did take a little break at some point before I finished it! Those social workers were a complete disgrace and it hope it haunts them to this day tbh
 
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It was hard to watch to the end but I felt like I’d be doing him some kind of disservice if I didn’t so I saw it through. I felt more satisfied from watching the whole thing because you get to see the outcome
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I’ve been reading this thread and put off watching it until today and I whole heartedly agree with your comment it’s doing a disservice to Gabriel not to.
Heartbreaking poor little boy 💔
 
I’m sorry I think the social workers should feel far more guilt than the teacher. “Oh I’ve lost my home” boo hoo, a boy lost his life fgs.
The part that really angered me was when the monster that had given birth to Gabriel (she does not deserve the label of parent or mother) read out her statement. She actually said she hopes her children will forgive her and when they come to their senses they will come to her. When they come to their senses??? Unbelievable.
I hope they both get what’s coming to them in prison.
Near the end, when the caption said “two weeks later” I was hoping they’d both been killed or killed themselves in prison.
Sadly it was another little boy, Antony, who had been failed by the system and I thought in some photos he looked remarkably like Gabriel.
Such a sad case, they all failed him.
 
I know this thread has been quiet, but just wanted to comment.
So after many months of avoiding, I decided to watch this programme, I had read some stuff and didnt want to see the pictures but I had questions in my mind.
What this poor boy suffered 😔 he was failed by everyone and this is why I had to watch, how the hell did this happen?? Not the abuse, it's clear they were both psychopaths to torture that child but how did no one see or do anything?

Obviously it's clear there were failings within social services, his teacher was the person I had read about most, and during her interview (I actually watched it twice)...sorry he told you this? cried and begged not to go home and you didnt do more?

All she did was merely box tick, that covered her own back. I know if a child came to me physically burned and black eyes I would have kept him at school, took him to my home, drove him to the hospital and risked my job because at the end of the day, no judge or jury would try you for stepping up and trying to protect a child.

I will say her final statement in court and the fact she did say she lives daily with that guilt and I'm sure she wishes now she did more must be a terrible feeling for her to live with. I do think it has genuinely affected her and sadly I dont think she will ever make peace with herself, that's not right, I feel for her. I do also wonder if the fact that both the mother and boyfriend were very intimidating with possible gang links made her fearful to do more.

My heart broke for his dad, yes he clearly did wrong to be in jail at that time but to now live with that guilt that he wasnt there.

The mother deserved a death sentence along with the boyfriend, the jurors did right by him but her plea bargin was a disgrace, I dont know how defense teams can sit beside these monsters.

I cried when the prosecution DA broke down hugging the dad. You could see it ment so much to him to get a form of justice, but shocking to hear 2 weeks later the same happened to another boy.

Social services all over is a shambles, there are excellent social workers but equally there are inexperienced SW or SW who cut corners as it's just a job to them now. When working with the most vulnerable people in society it's just not good enough, I've seen it personally, I know fantastic SW, I know awful ones who cant see the human just a case number. I know people who have been through the adoption process and its hell, these are loving people that are crucified before a decision is made, meanwhile monsters who abuse their children arent subjected to a 1/4 of the process as removing a child is a last resort.

And seemingly the sheriff's department comes under scrutiny in a lot of these cases, ones you now see on nextflix etc, they are always in there somewhere, they dont seem capable of doing a job right either.

I do hope Gabriel is playing in paradise with all the other little boys and girls and he is a peace, not existing in fear and begging just to be loved 😔

It's odd how in these cases for some reason one child becomes the victim, the case A Boy Called It was similar, for some reason his siblings went unharmed but the mother targeted him only.
 
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Just found this thread after watching the first 3 episodes of this documentary. Its almost midnight and I know I won't sleep tonight after the horror I've seen on the screen tonight. I am so enraged by the teacher. All she has to do was take him to the hospital and he would have surely been saved. duck your job, duck the rules, that child should not have been sent back home. It takes a village to raise a child. Where was his village?

I'm heartbroken 😔
 
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Just found this thread after watching the first 3 episodes of this documentary. Its almost midnight and I know I won't sleep tonight after the horror I've seen on the screen tonight. I am so enraged by the teacher. All she has to do was take him to the hospital and he would have surely been saved. duck your job, duck the rules, that child should not have been sent back home. It takes a village to raise a child. Where was his village?

I'm heartbroken 😔
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Ah I feel you. I still feel a mixture of horror and anger whenever I think about it. Someone could have saved his life and nobody did 💔
 
I watched it during lockdown and it was indescribably heartbreaking! The fact that the authorities failed him so badly. I was heartbroken for the teacher as well who reported it so many times but couldn't do anymore than that. Was horrendous. Makes me sick that stuff like that happens in the world
 
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