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    Emrik Osuna (9) died as a result of child abuse

    https://abc7.com/boy-who-was-sent-to...age-9/6442505/

    SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) -- A heartbroken Southern California family is preparing to bury a little boy who died after police say he was found with signs of abuse. The child was living with his father after his mother was arrested for abusing his siblings.

    Julio and Marie Osuna spoke to ABC7 at John Wayne Airport where the body of their 9-year-old nephew, Emrik Osuna arrived from Idaho for burial next week.

    "I love you so much Emrik. I wish I would have been able to do more. But your voice will not go unheard. I will make sure it's heard from end to end," said Julio Osuna, the boy's uncle.

    "I honestly just feel sick to my stomach. It's just not something that I would expect anybody to go through, especially with a child," said Marie Osuna, the boy's aunt.

    Police in Meridian, Idaho responded to the boy's home on Sept. 1 where they say he wasn't breathing, had no heartbeat, with signs of abuse. Officers performed CPR until EMS arrived and took over, continuing CPR efforts.

    Paramedics transported him to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to the Meridian Police Department.

    Three other children, ages 9, 4, and four months old, were placed into protective custody, police said.

    The boy's father Erik Osuna and step-mother Monique Osuna are in custody, charged in his death, which comes almost three years after his Santa Ana mother was arrested, accused of abusing his younger siblings, one year old twins.

    Emrik was not harmed in the original case, and even lived with his aunt and uncle for some time before he moved out to Idaho to be with his father.

    "For our detectives, that original case that belongs to us is an emotional case. Our detectives get attached to a lot of these cases and that's why they're here today," said Corporal Anthony Bertagna with the Santa Ana Police Department.

    The Santa Ana Police Department worries about other abuse cases amid the pandemic and distance learning, with not much reporting coming in from schools.

    "There are other outlets, and there's help out there for people that need it. So reach out, get the help you need. Abusing your child is not the answer," said Bertagna.

    Which is why Emrik's loved ones are telling his story.

    "I just hope that this reaches out to people and wake them up and to try and go get help, say something," said Julio Osuna.

    "We will never forget him. He'll be in our hearts forever," said Marie Osuna.

    Emrik was brought to a funeral home in Santa Ana where he'll be laid to rest next week.

    Meridian Police Department said there is an ongoing investigation and asked anyone with information about the case to contact them.

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    This kind of bullshit makes me rage like you would not believe.

    Children are precious creatures to be loved, to be shown the difference between good and bad, between right and wrong. They are not punching bags for dog shit humans to take out their frustrations on.

    This is why I believe in the death penalty, only I want these guilty motherfuckers to sufferrrrrrr. I want them eaten alive by grizzlies or wolves after being hung on a meathook in the middle of an Alabama summer.

    I have to see the effect of child abuse at work, and there exists no excuse.

    When you see an 18 month old, covered in bruises, and hear mom's boyfriend say "I stopped hitting when it felt like I broke my hand."

    Yes, he fucking said that.


    Emrik was 9. NINE years old. Nine year olds want nothing but to play, whether with siblings, friends, or even parents. They're learning about things they find interesting, learning how to read better, how to write better. They shouldn't be having to fight for their lives from abusive parents/relatives. They should be thriving.

    And I don't know about you all, but my kids are the reason I wake up in the morning.

    Why?

    Because I want things to be better for them than they were for me (and things weren't bad at all for me). My kids are the first thing I think of when I wake up, and their safety is the most important thing in my mind. I admit it's easier as they have aged, but this country is far too fucked up anymore to let your guard down, so I don't.

    Poor little Emrik was NINE. Likely had friends who will find it hard to understand why he's gone. His relatives, too.

    But ohhhhhh, I hope the guilty party gets abused in prison so badly that they can only be identified through dental records.

    Fuck people. anymore.

    Anyone else want off this planet?
    Don't like what I have to say? I respect that. Go fuck yourself.

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    I don't understand. The father knew what was going on; he probably recognized the signs from the first wife. He didn't intervene and tried to cover it up. To me, that means he was complicit and had enough mental capacity to know right from wrong. You are fit to kill a child, you are fit to hang. He needs to be hung with his wife.

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    Case Update: Idaho Father and Stepmother Plead Not Guilty in Murder of 9-Year-Old Emrik Osuna, and Other Updates in Emrik’s Case

    https://sufferthelittlechildrenblog..../update-emrik/

    Now, the updates:

    Erik and Monique’s preliminary hearing before Judge Daniel Steckel on March 31 stretched from 8:30 AM past 6:00 PM. Although this doesn’t appear to have been reported anywhere, Erik’s commitment was ordered terminated, and although it wasn’t explicitly stated in the court docket, based on my inexpert interpretation of Idaho code Section 18-212(4), it would appear the judge determined him to be competent, because the proceedings in his case have resumed. In fact, the judge bound over the charges against both Erik and Monique Osuna to district court, allowing the case to proceed to trial.

    At the same hearing, the prosecution detailed for the court the repeated beatings and torture Emrik endured before his death on September 2, 2020, presenting evidence that included nanny-cam videos taken from the family’s video surveillance system. Several witnesses also testified at the hearing, including an Ada County paramedic, four members of the Meridian Police Department, and Hannah Berry, one of Monique’s coworkers.

    Hannah testified that while discussing Emrik’s behavior with Monique, Hannah suggested the possibility that the boy suffered from Reactive Attachment Disorder, which affects neglected or abused children.

    During her testimony, Hannah told the court that she was the one to suggest the couple install nanny cameras in their apartment to document Emrik’s reported behavior. She was also the one to suggest physical exercise as punishment, but she insisted she did not recommend the lengthy bouts of exercise Monique evidently forced upon Emrik.

    Hannah said that on September 1, 2020 at around 5:00 PM, she received a text from Monique that said something was wrong with her stepson; when she arrived at the apartment around 8:30 PM, Hannah said, Emrik was lying on the living room floor. “He was laying down and he was covered in blankets; I mean, it looked like he was sleeping.”

    Emrik’s hand was cold to the touch, she said, and at some point, she suggested Erik and Monique put Pedialyte into Emrik’s mouth with a syringe, which they did. She suggested they try to stand him up to see if that roused him; when they lifted Emrik, Hannah said, he took his “last breath… It was a deep breath, and then it was just silent.”

    When Monique performed CPR on her stepson, Hannah said, a milky liquid sprayed from his nose and mouth. Finally, around 9:40 PM, Erik used Monique’s phone to dial 911, placed the call on speaker phone, and, before paramedics arrived, handed Hannah a bundle of security cameras and cords and asked her to hide them in her car.

    Hannah testified that when she returned to her car hours later, she remembered the cameras and turned them over to the police. While initially talking to officers at the scene, she testified, panic led her to forget about the cameras. “I was still in shock.”

    Those cameras captured multiple videos that were shown during the preliminary hearing, and if you thought this couple was evil before, just wait until you read what the videos showed.

    Some of the videos documented the hours of constant physical exercises Emrik was forced to do as punishment, which included wall-sits, jumping jacks, “inch-worms,” and others. In one video, Emrik did a wall-sit as Monique loomed over him, screaming profanities and threatening him with physical violence. In another, Emrik was performing another exercise in the kitchen when his father came into frame and appeared to hit the nine-year-old in the back of the head with a belt.

    Throughout the videos, Monique was seen kicking Emrik across the room, calling him “a fucking loser” and “a piece of shit,” and telling him she was going to force him to eat his own feces and drink his own urine.

    One video depicted Emrik asleep in the fetal position on the living room floor without blankets or pillows; suddenly, Monique woke him by grabbing him by the hair, yanking him off the ground, and forcing him into the kitchen, demanding he perform jumping jacks, all the while slapping him violently before switching to smashing the crying, screaming boy over the head with a spoon. Some video footage depicts Monique holding Emrik by the hair and “swinging him around like a rag doll.”

    How’s your blood pressure right now? Mine skyrocketed just typing those last few paragraphs.

    Meridian Police Detective Matthew Ferronato testified that during the video in which she awoke him and yanked him up by the hair, Monique was furious with Emrik for drinking a glass of water supposedly belonging to someone else. The little boy asked to use the bathroom, which Monique forbade, telling him, “Next time I’ll put poison in a cup and put your name on it.”

    In one twelve-minute video seen at the hearing, Emrik was once again performing an exercise in the kitchen when he paused and moved toward the garbage can, possibly hoping to look for something to eat, as he was severely malnourished in all of the video clips, his ribs protruding sharply against his skin. Monique was seen on the video entering the kitchen, kicking Emrik before hitting him multiple times in the head. In another video, Emrik was hit with a frying pan while being forced to stand on one leg with his hands above his head.

    Erik’s contribution to the verbal and physical abuse of his son appeared less common than his wife’s, but Detective Ferronato said that Erik often ignored Emrik and failed to intervene when Monique beat or berated him.

    Reportedly, while the videos were shown, Monique became emotional in the courtroom, and Erik hung his head. That’s almost as infuriating as the details of the videos, honestly. There’s no way they regret systematically torturing and murdering Emrik, in my opinion; they merely regret getting caught.

    Meridian Police Detective Eric Stoffle also testified at the hearing, saying he interviewed Erik after Emrik was taken to the hospital on the evening of September 1. Erik admitted during the interview that in the weeks leading up to his death, his son was hit with a dog leash and a frying pan. When the interview concluded, Detective Stoffle said, he told Erik his son had died. “He said he had failed as a parent,” testified the detective.

    How much exercise was Emrik forced to complete? Detective Ferronato testified, “Each day, I would say over twelve hours a day, or thereabouts. Sometimes it would go on, twenty-plus hours of constant exercise.”

    The detective also testified that throughout the two weeks of footage they reviewed, not once did they witness a single member of the family show affection or any kind of positive attention to Emrik. He was not permitted to play with toys or games. While the rest of the family ate fast food in front of him, Emrik went without.

    The court saw autopsy photos during the preliminary hearing, showing “extensive bruising” on Emrik’s face, head, back, and legs. Investigators testified that in separate interviews with Erik and Monique, when asked if, in their belief, Emrik was tortured, both conceded that their treatment of the little boy qualified as torture.

    Prosecutor Tamara Kelly told the court, “The little boy had bruises all over his body, specifically on his buttocks, groin, legs, and torso. Some of the bruises were extremely large and essentially covered the back of his body.”

    Meridian Police Officer Scott Frazier, one of the first two officers who responded to the Osuna home on the evening of September 1, testified that when he arrived, Emrik was on the carpet with his head toward the door, without a pulse and not breathing, so he and the other officer performed CPR until EMS arrived. Monique, he said, was crying and “frantic,” while Hannah Berry and Erik appeared “stoic.”

    Officer Frazier testified that the boy appeared sickly, as if he had a medical condition. “He was very emaciated; he appeared ill; his eyes were sunk into his head. He was pale.” When he asked Monique for Emrik’s diagnosis, she said he had ADHD.

    When EMS arrived, the officer said, they stripped off Emrik’s clothes as they treated him, and he saw that Emrik had substantial dark bruising from his buttocks to his lower back, as well as trauma to his penis, describing the injury as appearing as if someone had left a rubber band wrapped around the organ.

    Ada County Paramedic Jana Reed testified that she found it unusual that nine-year-old Emrik was wearing a diaper when she arrived on the scene. “When I asked why he was in a diaper, I was told ‘he kept wetting himself, so I put a diaper on him.’”

    The court also heard testimony from Detective Joseph Miller, who interviewed Monique while Detective Stoffle interviewed Erik that evening. Detective Miller said his interview with Emrik’s wicked stepmother (my words, not his) took around five hours. Initially, Monique told the detective that Emrik was injured while “playing rough” with some neighborhood boys, but she eventually admitted she had been abusing Emrik since the beginning of the year, saying the abuse escalated after the birth of her daughter four months before Emrik’s death.

    During the interview, Detective Miller testified, Monique admitted delivering repeated beatings to Emrik and forcing him to exercise for hours at a time as “discipline.” The day Emrik died, however, Monique told the detective, she hit him fewer than ten times. What a benevolent soul, right? She admitted to hitting her stepson with a leash, a backscratcher, a wetted belt, a wooden spoon, and a frying pan, and she said she beat Emrik with the pan “every other day” for several months.

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