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The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez
Posted on 3/2/20 at 7:32 pm
Posted on 3/2/20 at 7:32 pm
Is the most compelling, heart-wrenching and well made tru-crime doc Netflix has done.
And that's saying a lot.
And if you get to Episode 3, that 1st grade teacher is also a moron along with the charged social workers.
And that's saying a lot.
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The true story of the months-long torture and murder of 8-year-old Gabriel in May 2013. His mother, Pearl Sinthia Fernandez, and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, were charged for the crimes.
In addition to Gabriel's mother and her boyfriend, four Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services employees were charged with one felony count of child abuse and one felony count of falsifying public records in 2016.
And if you get to Episode 3, that 1st grade teacher is also a moron along with the charged social workers.
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Posted on 3/2/20 at 7:54 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I love a good crime documentary and I’ve seen this when I scroll through Netflix. That being said I just don’t think I can watch it.
Posted on 3/2/20 at 8:41 pm to BCTigerFan
It's tough.
But it is an encompassing doc not just on the crime but how did this happen in our modern society with so-called social safety nets?
It reveals the battle with protecting children and political and social reasons not to intervene and the policy to not separate families.
The entire system seems like a clusterfrick.
But it is an encompassing doc not just on the crime but how did this happen in our modern society with so-called social safety nets?
It reveals the battle with protecting children and political and social reasons not to intervene and the policy to not separate families.
The entire system seems like a clusterfrick.
Posted on 3/3/20 at 12:01 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
It certainly exposes how broken the system is. Being in Los Angeles doesn't help, but shite...those deputies not getting any punishment is BS.
This docu along with the Making of a Murderer docu had me cringing at the trashiness of people. Just filthy people.
This docu along with the Making of a Murderer docu had me cringing at the trashiness of people. Just filthy people.
Posted on 3/3/20 at 10:01 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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It's tough. But it is an encompassing doc not just on the crime but how did this happen in our modern society with so-called social safety nets? It reveals the battle with protecting children and political and social reasons not to intervene and the policy to not separate families. The entire system seems like a clusterfrick.
Agreed. It was a tough thing to see but it is well done and covers everything.
Posted on 3/3/20 at 12:29 pm to Paluka
Wife and I watched first couple episodes. Are these people American citizens or illegal? That hasn’t been addressed.
Posted on 3/3/20 at 12:32 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
It’s heartbreaking how that poor kid had to live the last 8 months of his life. And those social workers, frick them. They did the basic equivalent of sweeping that shite under a rug so they didn’t have to put any effort into doing their actual job. The only one I could let slide is the young one who was obviously very naive and the other ones should have been following up on her reports and actually training her. The old lady didn’t write one truth in her report other than the address. Terrible complete systemic failure that contributed to the child’s death. And then it happened again just a few months later!
Posted on 3/4/20 at 9:19 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Dear Zachary tore my heart out
The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez ripped my soul out. Can’t recall the last time I was crying and pissed off at the same time.
The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez ripped my soul out. Can’t recall the last time I was crying and pissed off at the same time.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 9:50 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
What do they feed these people in CA prisons? The murdering parents both gained about 100lbs in prison awaiting trial.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 10:11 pm to Das_Wanda_kid
I haven't seen this series, but Making a murderer was as biased and one-sided as it gets.
It literally began as a brief for the defense.
Seems like this genre is kind of netflix's calling card now... Documentaries can be just as biased as some movies.
It literally began as a brief for the defense.
Seems like this genre is kind of netflix's calling card now... Documentaries can be just as biased as some movies.
Posted on 3/5/20 at 1:53 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
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ripped my soul out
The recorded interviews of his sister and brother and their testimony transcripts were hard as shite to watch. I actually turned my eyes away from the tv and started crying.
Posted on 3/5/20 at 3:04 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
An inmate who was in Chinchilla when Pearl first arrived made a post about how after the c.o. said out loud, “You sure do sleep well for having killed your own baby” (thereby confirming her charges to the other inmates) that they cut her face all up with a tuna can Lin, threw scalding coffee on her, and beat her with their locks. She said now she’s in pc and they bring in the riot squad to transport her every time she leaves her cell
Posted on 3/5/20 at 8:01 pm to MHD
The DA looks like season one Micheal Scott. Great series, no one should do that to a child ever.
Posted on 3/5/20 at 8:55 pm to Buck Magnum
Rough show. Very complicated issues addressed in this show. Hard to understand how all the people in his life failed the kid so badly. Really tragic.
Posted on 3/5/20 at 9:11 pm to Jack Ruby
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I haven't seen this series, but Making a murderer was as biased and one-sided as it gets.
It literally began as a brief for the defense.
Making a murderer was complete bullshite, but this documentary is nothing like it.
Posted on 3/7/20 at 11:18 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Lots of complexity in this one. Tough to watch.
I wish they went into more detail about how he ended up back with his mother after being with his uncle for so long. They really just scratched the surface on that.
I wish they went into more detail about how he ended up back with his mother after being with his uncle for so long. They really just scratched the surface on that.
Posted on 3/7/20 at 10:21 pm to Chipand2Putts
I think in the doc wanted him for the disability money and thinking the uncle being gay was making Gabriel gay.
Posted on 3/8/20 at 2:20 am to 632627
Yeah, but there’s got to be more to it than just wanting him back.
Seems like putting him back with the lunatic mother was the first time DCFS dropped the ball. I would have liked to learned more about that.
Seems like putting him back with the lunatic mother was the first time DCFS dropped the ball. I would have liked to learned more about that.
Posted on 3/10/20 at 12:21 am to 632627
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Making a murderer was complete bullshite, but this documentary is nothing like it.
How so?
Posted on 3/10/20 at 12:22 am to MidnightVibe
I couldn't finish this one.
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