Man Who Stomped Baby To Death Identified - Child Was His Only Son
“The terrible man got to die in an instant, but his baby had to suffer endlessly”
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Six-and-a-half minutes.
Six-and-a-half minutes for two men to try to stop a father from beating “the demons” out of his two-year-old son in the middle of a dark country road. Six-and-a-half minutes for a young woman to crouch in her car and watch in helpless shock. Six-and-a-half minutes for a police officer to land in a helicopter, run across a cow pasture, and shoot the man squarely in the forehead.
Six-and-a-half minutes of horror.
“It seemed like forever,” said Lisa Mota, 23, who was driving to her parents’ house when she came upon the scene after 10 p.m. Saturday. “I need to get this out of my head and I don’t think it will be for the rest of my life.”
On Monday, all that’s left of the violence is blood seeping into the cracks of West Bradbury Road, just outside the Central Valley town of Turlock. Parents and children came and went all day placing ceramic angels and stuffed animals along the barbed wire fence. One white teddy bear held a heart that said, “Besos y Abrazos.” It means kisses and hugs.
“The terrible man got to die in an instant, but his baby had to suffer endlessly,” said Joel Arana. “It’s not right. But God will take care of it.”
The man has been identified by police as Sergio Casian Aguilar, 27. He and his wife had been separated. In an interview with detectives Monday, Frances Liliana Casian said she didn’t know why Aguilar would do such a thing. It was his only known child.
He had no police record and she didn’t know of any mental illness, said Deputy Royjindar Singh, a spokesman for the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department. A toxicology test for drugs and alcohol is under way.
As news of the roadside beating spread across the country, letters of support and thanks poured in for the pilot who landed the helicopter in the dark cow pasture and the Modesto police officer who shot Aguilar.
“That baby needed help and I knew we had to do something,” the pilot, Sheriff’s Deputy Rob Latapie said in a statement.
“I have never seen anything like that before and I hope I never have to again,” said Officer Jerry Ramar, who fired the fatal shot.
Three cars stopped on the darkened lane that night. Three 911 calls were placed. And two men who happened upon this scene defied their fears of what this man was capable of, what weapons he might have, and tried to save a child.
It wasn’t enough.
Dan Robinson, chief of the Crows Landing volunteer fire department, was driving home Saturday night with his wife and two grown children when their headlights shined on a man standing behind a parked pickup truck, which was in the next lane, facing oncoming traffic. At first, they thought maybe it was a hunter with a dead animal.
“As they slowed down, someone noticed it was an infant,” Singh said. “He stopped, backed up and the dad got out.”
It’s unclear when the beating began, but the first 911 call came at just after 10:13 p.m. It was from someone named Mike, who may be Robinson’s son, Singh said. He gave just a brief description before the cell phone went dead.
By then, Robinson had confronted Aguilar and “was trying to get him to stop, trying to pull him off, or away from the baby,” Singh said. “The suspect just pushed him away and continued doing what he was doing.”
A minute later, at 10:14 p.m., a pickup truck with three people in their 20s pulled up, facing Aguilar’s truck. One of them called 911. A young man, who Singh hasn’t identified, jumped out and ran to help Robinson.
“It was the shock of seeing what was going on, seeing this person with hands bloodied,” said Singh, who was on the scene as the witnesses were interviewed. “At first they weren’t sure how to react. You walk upon that scene and you see it and it’s like, ‘What are you doing?’ It’s like, “What the heck are you doing?’ ”
The two men wrestled with Aguilar, trying to get him to stop, trying to pull him away from the baby. But Aguilar, with the child in his arm, kept attacking the toddler, “punching, slapping, shaking,” Singh said.
Robinson told reporters that “there was a total hollowness in his eyes,” and Aguilar said he was beating “the demons” out of the boy.
At 10:17, Mike called 911 again.
At 10:19, the sheriff’s helicopter that had been patrolling the area shined its spotlight on the scene, then landed in the cow pasture.
Officer Ramar jumped out, Singh said, and ran about 30 yards to the electrified fence that keeps the cows in and ordered the man to stop. By this time, Aguilar had the child on the ground and was stomping on him.
“Put your hands up. Step away from the baby,” Ramar called out, according to Singh.
Instead, Singh said, Aguilar raised his middle finger and began to kick the toddler lying on the roadway.
At 10:20, Ramar aimed his gun and fired. Aguilar died at the scene. Two deputies rushed to the child and performed CPR, but the boy remained limp. He was pronounced dead at the local hospital.
At 10:30, Singh arrived. The night was cool and clear. The only lights came from the headlights of the cars that had stopped to help and the flashing reds and blues of police vehicles. It was still so dark, Singh couldn’t even see the helicopter in the pasture.
But he saw the deputies who tried to revive the child, the police officer who shot the man, and the witnesses who tried to help. They all were consoling each other, he said.
“I know how they were feeling,” he said. “It’s like you wish you could have done more.”
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O Lord who watches over children in the present life and in the world to come because of their simplicity and innocence of mind, abundantly satisfying them with a place in Abraham’s bosom, bringing them to live in radiantly shining places where the spirits of the righteous dwell: receive in peace the soul of Your little servant little baby Aguilar, for You Yourself have said, “Let the little children come to Me, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Amen.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:31 pmThank You.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:48 pmLftbhndagn said it all best.
God bless Officer Ramar for making sure Aguilar could never do such an evil thing ever again.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:52 pmNothing but prayers for the family and those who witnessed this heinous act.
That sweet helpless baby is in Heaven.
Besos y Abrazos.
Too bad the first person who stopped didn’t have a gun.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:57 pm__________________________________
The last sentence of article…”“I know how they were feeling,” he said. “It’s like you wish you could have done more.”
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Then take a beating if neccessary to save the baby’s life.
It’s the equivelant of stepping between a woman or child to protect them when bullets are flying through the air.
I have to believe…with certainty, that every guy here would do exactly that.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:08 pmCPLViper: or a tire iron, big rock, glass bottle, pocket knife, a bic fucking pen! WTF man? You can always do something, I’d like to know how somebody couldn’t give it their all to save the life of a child. If he somehow overpowers you or breaks your arms, gouge his eyes out with your tongue! WTF?!?!
June 16th, 2008 at 10:17 pmAsk ANY law enforcement officer how many times a day this shit happens to children and no one witnesses it.
How many children lose their lives this way..
No one comes to their rescue..
None of the abusers are shot in the head..
And how many child abusers get off on technicality’s and are free to do this type of shit over and over again..
This story, this poor little baby and what he went through, and what the whitenesses went through, has just shed an awful lot of light on a VERY dark subject that needed a lot more light shed on it.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:25 pmThere isnt any god,to let this happin…even if there is…and it was his “will,or plan”to let this happin,he is one sick fucker.As for the people,cover the babys body,poke his fuckin eyes out,brake his knee-caps…kick the fucker in the nuts.
yes i bet the do feel like they could have done more,cause they could have(cops did what they could)They didnt know what to do?stop the basterd,how about that?
June 16th, 2008 at 10:37 pmSome people just need killing and sometimes the people that need to do the killing aren’t there. I can’t really read any more of this story.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:41 pmA quote from C.S. Lewis seems appropriate here:
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. … Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too–for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist–in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless -I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality–namely my idea of justice–was full of sense. Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be a word without meaning.
June 16th, 2008 at 11:05 pmThe Father was the one demon possessed. Only wish someone with courage & some tact would have been the first to witness and intervene.
Seems some had a lot of guilt for not taking drastic action.
No tellin’ how bad that baby was when the first witnesses rolled up on them.
So sad.
June 17th, 2008 at 12:12 amI hope he rots, and his family beter not sue the police
June 17th, 2008 at 2:03 amIt is a shame that a man did not come upon this scene before the child was lost.
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TB in STL, thanks for the quote.
June 17th, 2008 at 3:45 amThis is indeed a tragedy but also a glaring example of the difference between the taking of an innocent life and metering a justified death sentence.
June 17th, 2008 at 4:14 amTo people that say their is no God
And Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.
She said “I believe that God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman that He is, I believe that He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand that He leave us alone?”
These words are true, these words are the reason Democrats have attacked Christians and all that is Holy within our country. They want government to replace GOD like the Chi-coms do. I believe that God’s men and women will have to act to protect any semblance of a decent and moral country.
June 17th, 2008 at 4:14 amI wish there was someone who could use deadly force on all of them that do these things.
This is why I believe so strongly in allowing people to have concealed carry in every state. That way when and if something happens, such as this, where attemps have been made to stop the evil bastards, that immediate justice is availabe.
TBinSTL (just typical)
Some people just need killing and sometimes the people that need to do the killing aren’t there.
I agree. Many people have lived in such sheltered lives they have never witnessed anything remotely violent. {I am glad there are many that have not had to see or experience violence but it makes them useless in situations like this.} Suddenly faced with it, they freeze up in shock and fail to act quickly and with any force available.
June 17th, 2008 at 4:52 amGive credit where due—Satan and his demons are alive and well and roaming the earth causing chaos and evil, fufilling Bible prophesy. “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” 1 John 5:19
June 17th, 2008 at 5:03 amradgy
I believe there to be great misconception about ‘the will of God’ in the minds of non-Christians and even many Christians. The will of God ends where the free will he gave us to choose to do as we please begins. A God who created me for his own desires and use without giving me a freedom to think and choose is the God that I would curse. Destiny and eternity boil down to choices folks.
June 17th, 2008 at 5:46 amROT IN HELL, MOFO!!!
June 17th, 2008 at 7:23 amscnative
that is KINDA plausable,also means he is NOT all knowing/or powerful…where was that babys free will,or did that end at the end of his fathers boot?was it that baby’s choice,to have his destiny beat out of him?
“I believe that God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman that He is, I believe that He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand that He leave us alone?”
yes that baby wanted god out of his school-bad baby…should have figured he would be curb-stomped,and need god
or does god abandon the most fragile,because of things he has no control of?
such a gentlman he is
June 17th, 2008 at 7:31 ampreceding the birth of Moses, and the birth the Messiah, children suffered the most. pharoah ordered the killing of every male child born under a certain age. when Jesus was born, Herod did the same. what event may abortion portend when tens of millions have been slaughtered? that number is in the U.S., not adding world wide.
June 17th, 2008 at 8:04 amDon’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
June 17th, 2008 at 9:56 amSo I ask you Radgy, which master did this man choose to follow? There is your ‘free will’. You may choose either to follow sin, which leads to death, or obedience, which leads to life. It’s your choice.
Radgy,
What Phendlin said is true. We are the ones with the power to choose. God gave us this power. It isn’t God’s will or Him “allowing” this type of crap to happen; it’s OUR choice. Why do you think there’s a Judgement Day? Because it is OUR choice. This puke made a CHOICE and he will answer for it. The poor little guy, no choice but to have his innocence murdered. We are their protectors unless WE CHOOSE wrong as his piece of crap dad did. The little guy is in Heaven as we speak and he’s in zero pain. That’s the good news. The so-called father is someplace else and in torment in more ways than one and it will never, ever stop for him. He knew better, he CHOSE evil instead. Does that make it fair? No. This is why it is so important that people understand what the Gospel is, and the implications of our choices. This is why “sin” is so evil. It does not ever affect just you, but everyone around you, even your so-called “secret” sins. Free will is a very precious yet dangerous thing to have. Use it according to God’s Word and you’ll do well.
Trust me, I am as pissed off at this guy as anyone else but since God Himself gave us authority and control over this planet He expects US to do what His Word says. When we refuse, we have the messes we have globally today. It isn’t God’s fault, or His will. It is ours.
June 17th, 2008 at 11:23 am@radgy
When you close your mind, eyes and heart to something, you’ll never be able to understand it. That’s your “choice”
June 17th, 2008 at 1:01 pmThank You, Lftbhndagn, for the prayer……..may I add that it’s always the children who suffer and the perps escape with either death or a jail sentence. No one need think that evil isn’t alive and well.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:32 pm