How two boys died just like Gabriel Fernandez in SAME town – as one was ‘whipped & had hot sauce rubbed on face’
SKIN scorched by cigarettes, genitals shot at with a BB gun and forced to eat cat poo - the tragic story of eight-year-old Gabriel Fernandez's death at the hands of his evil mother and her boyfriend has left Netflix viewers horrified.
But despite social workers and authorities being slammed for seemingly failing to protect the youngster, two other little boys have since died under eerily similar circumstances.
Anthony Avalos, 10, and Noah Cuatro, four, both featured at the end of the final episode of The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez.
They both lived in LA too and tragically died after allegedly being tortured and beaten by their own parents.
Anthony lived just 15 minutes from Gabriel in Antelope Valley in Los Angeles and died in 2018.
His mother and her boyfriend have been charged with first-degree murder.
It has subsequently been claimed that homophobia may have been a factor in Anthony's death - in the same way as it was for Gabriel.
Gabriel's parents Pearl Fernandez and her boyfriend Isauro Aguirre are said to have subjected the defenceless boy to the vile attacks because they thought he was gay.
Commenting on the apparent similarities between Gabriel and Anthony's cases, former senator in California, Ricardo Lara, told the Netflix series: "It's the homophobia that you don't see.
"That doesn't play out on TV, that doesn't play out on the street, that is alive and well in your own home."
Meanwhile the LA Times reports that his other aunt, Crystal Diuguid, even claimed to her therapist that Anthony's mum was beating him and locking him in a room with no bathroom or access to food.
Horrified, by what she had heard, the therapist called the child abuse hotline.
But despite these countless interventions, Anthony was allegedly continually tortured and eventually killed by his mum and her partner, prosecutors claim.
Like Gabriel and Anthony, he too had been visited by the DCFS multiple times - with a case worker even going to a judge in May 2019 to claim his life was at imminent risk.
While the judge issued a court order to remove him, the DCFS reportedly never executed the order.
Noah is said to have died two weeks after the DCFS updated the court in June and asked for a 30-day continuance to investigate further.
Garrett Therolf, a former Los Angeles Times reporter and series producer, ultimately claimed in the documentary that more than 150 children in the LA County with at least some DCFS involvement in their lives have died of abuse and neglect since Gabriel's 2013 death.