What the hell is the matter with people - The Orange Mane

JCMElway · 12-22-2007, 01:56 AM

Not being in Colorado I just caught up with this story. Unbelievable. Do they have the death penalty in Colorado?

Heather Trujillo and her boyfriend, 17-year-old Lamar Roberts, were babysitting Zoe Garcia and her younger 3-year-old twin sisters on the afternoon of the 6th of December, 2007 while Heather and Zoe’s mother was working at the “Corral Bar,” which was about five blocks away.

Zoe Garcia, who has been described as a “beautiful little girl,” had moved with her family into the house last April. The family didn’t really get along well with neighbors, who have described them as “combative.”

Next-door neighbor Laura Valdivieso went so far as to tell reporters, “They didn’t fit in. They were noisy and disruptive.”

Lamar RobertsEveryone seemed to like Zoe Garcia, however. She was a beautiful little girl who made friends with everybody, often playing with a jump rope that Laura Valdivieso gave to her.

Zoe Garcia was also a little girl who neighbors described as “hungry.”

John Valdivieso mentioned that Zoe once asked him for some bread. He gave her half a loaf, which the little girl wolfed down.

Well, on the afternoon of the 6th of December, the house that Zoe and Heather lived in was especially noisy and disruptive.

Heather Trujillo and her boyfriend Lamar Roberts chose that afternoon to reenact scenes from Mortal Kombat on Zoe, who didn’t really enjoy the beating at all. She, in fact, died from the beating that her sister and Roberts inflicted upon her.

Lamar Roberts, who has claimed that his fists are “lethal weapons,” did most of the beating, but Heather had no problem helping him out, savagely kicking and hitting little Zoe. At one point the pair picked Zoe up, and bodyslammed her, dropping her on her side and breaking her wrist.

Zoe endured the beating, however.

She kept getting up, crying and asking Lamar to stop hitting her.

He didn’t, of course, because, as he claimed to a witness, “I was drunk.”

Lamar told that witness that at the end of the beating he had performed a back kick on Zoe, then as she was running back towards him, had kicked her again. Lamar Roberts claimed that this final kick caused Zoe Garcia to fall down to the ground.

This time she didn’t get up.

Heather Trujillo and Lamar Roberts thought that Zoe might have been playing a trick on them and put her into the bath and ran water over her, which actually temporarily revived her…until she stopped breathing again.

In a move which would stun EMT’s everywhere, Lamar Roberts chose this moment to crack an egg in Zoe Garcia’s mouth to see if she was really hurt or if she was just “messing around with them.”

Well, the egg went down Zoe’s throat and the pair finally decided, 15 minutes after the 7-year-old stopped breathing, that maybe they should pick up the phone and call someone to help.

Her mother and paramedics were called, and Zoe was rushed to the hospital.

The doctors treating her inventoried a broken right wrist, more than 20 serious bruises over her body, bleeding neck muscles and a torn skin flap by her tongue.

She was pronounced dead that night. According to the coroner, the cause of death was blunt force trauma to her brain and central nervous system.

Lamar Roberts had no problem placing the blame on Heather Trujillo, claiming to the police that the two sisters had been upstairs wrestling around while he was downstairs playing video games. This might have worked except for that statement he made to a witness, where he claimed to have done most of the beating himself.

This wasn’t the first time Lamar and Heather abused others in this household, either.

Five people in the neighborhood contacted the Weld County Department of Social Services in the months leading up to Zoe’s death. One of the neighbors claimed that Zoe spent a lot of time at her house during the summer and was often asking for food.

A month or so after school had started, Zoe Garcia had told this neighbor that a couch had fallen on one of the 3-year-old twin’s head.

Another neighbor Rhonda Simonetti, had baby-sat Zoe and her twin sisters twice, for four days each time, when she noticed bruises on Zoe.

The first time I asked her, she said she fell down the stairs. The second time, she started crying and said Lamar had been hitting her.

Rhonda Simonetti said she took a day off work to report the abuse to the Weld County Department of Social Services but never heard back.

Well, good work, Weld County Department of Social Services!

Way to spend our tax dollars.

Heather Trujillo and Lamar Roberts were arrested on the 18th of December, 2007. They were charged with child abuse resulting in death, a Class II felony.

They could be sentenced to 48 years in prison if convicted.

Do Heather Trujillo and Lamar Roberts deserve Hell?

* Yes - both of them (92%, 107 Votes)
* Yes - but only Lamar Roberts (5%, 6 Votes)
* No - neither of them do (2%, 2 Votes)
* Yes - but only Heather Trujillo (1%, 1 Votes)

Doggcow · 12-22-2007, 01:59 AM

Deserve hell? Rofl wtf?

Yea its ****ty, but this isnt something new. I remember reading about someone babysitting and killing a kid with a choke hold or something.

Los Broncos · 12-22-2007, 02:03 AM

Death is the only thing that comes to mind, what a POS!

spdirty · 12-22-2007, 02:05 AM

I just don't understand how people get off hurting little kids.

I hope the inmates at Weld County hear about this story and I'd like to crawl in the same snuggie with these 2 peices of garbage up.

baja · 12-22-2007, 02:19 AM

In the end times the innocent will go first with the worst of it being saved for those left .

JCMElway · 12-22-2007, 02:21 AM

Yeah, I'm not normally a big supporter of the death penalty, but these two are very deserving. Oh, and the Mom should be charges with accesory to murder, neglect, reckless endangerment.....and whatever else they can throw at her.

Bronco Bob · 12-22-2007, 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by spdirty

I just don't understand how people get off hurting little kids.

I hope the inmates at Weld County hear about this story and I'd like to crawl in the same snuggie with these 2 peices of garbage up.

Yes, hopefully this will be their hell. I've heard inmates tend to not look kindly on people who hurt kids.

L.A. BRONCOS FAN · 12-22-2007, 03:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JCMElway

Yeah, I'm not normally a big supporter of the death penalty, but these two are very deserving. Oh, and the Mom should be charges with accesory to murder, neglect, reckless endangerment.....and whatever else they can throw at her.

+1

Spider · 12-22-2007, 06:29 AM

I just dont get it ........ I got 6 beuatifull kids , they have never been with a baby sitter ( outside of family ), me and my wife have never really trusted anyone with them ........

TailgateNut · 12-22-2007, 09:01 AM

in another case the mom of the Boulder county girl who died at the hands of the moms' boyfriend has been convicted. She faces 16-48 years in the slammer and her boyfriend is due to face "the Law" next month.

Anyone who hurt a child needs to be ****ing lynched from the nearest tree. PERIOD!

cutthemdown · 12-22-2007, 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bronco Bob

Yes, hopefully this will be their hell. I've heard inmates tend to not look kindly on people who hurt kids.

Our prisons have gotten really violent. You can get shanked and beaten just for being there. But yes child molesters and child killers are often targeted everyone knows that. When I was an intern at the public defender in Los Angeles one of my duties was interviewing people who had been charged with a felony. I would try to gather info like who they are, how much money do they have, whose your family, etc etc to see if the Public Defender will take their case.

You could always tell when someones charges were child molesting because they would black those charges out. One time when I was new I allowed another inmate to see a guys sheet where the charges were blacked out. The person training me said I probably just wrote that dude a ticket out of the world. I was only like 23 yrs old so it was all pretty intimidating.

Spider · 12-22-2007, 04:54 PM

It takes a low life scum to beat a defensless child to death ...... I am here in Greeley co , right now , the father is now preparing to bring charges against Social Services , though he hasnt seen the Girl in 3 years .......

theAPAOps5 · 12-22-2007, 05:22 PM

Seeing as how most people in prison got there as the chain reaction started usually by some form of abuse this guy will get the justice he deserves. Handed down to him by people who know intimately what he had done to this little girl.

I am the proponent of eye for and eye tooth for a tooth. I think the best thing they can do is give these kids the max sentence of 48 years. Its essentially their death penalty.

12-22-2007, 01:56 AM	#1
JCMElway Moderate-erator Dominate! Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 6,866 Adopt-a-Bronco: Oleg	What the hell is the matter with people Not being in Colorado I just caught up with this story. Unbelievable. Do they have the death penalty in Colorado? Heather Trujillo and her boyfriend, 17-year-old Lamar Roberts, were babysitting Zoe Garcia and her younger 3-year-old twin sisters on the afternoon of the 6th of December, 2007 while Heather and Zoe’s mother was working at the “Corral Bar,” which was about five blocks away. Zoe Garcia, who has been described as a “beautiful little girl,” had moved with her family into the house last April. The family didn’t really get along well with neighbors, who have described them as “combative.” Next-door neighbor Laura Valdivieso went so far as to tell reporters, “They didn’t fit in. They were noisy and disruptive.” Lamar RobertsEveryone seemed to like Zoe Garcia, however. She was a beautiful little girl who made friends with everybody, often playing with a jump rope that Laura Valdivieso gave to her. Zoe Garcia was also a little girl who neighbors described as “hungry.” John Valdivieso mentioned that Zoe once asked him for some bread. He gave her half a loaf, which the little girl wolfed down. Well, on the afternoon of the 6th of December, the house that Zoe and Heather lived in was especially noisy and disruptive. Heather Trujillo and her boyfriend Lamar Roberts chose that afternoon to reenact scenes from Mortal Kombat on Zoe, who didn’t really enjoy the beating at all. She, in fact, died from the beating that her sister and Roberts inflicted upon her. Lamar Roberts, who has claimed that his fists are “lethal weapons,” did most of the beating, but Heather had no problem helping him out, savagely kicking and hitting little Zoe. At one point the pair picked Zoe up, and bodyslammed her, dropping her on her side and breaking her wrist. Zoe endured the beating, however. She kept getting up, crying and asking Lamar to stop hitting her. He didn’t, of course, because, as he claimed to a witness, “I was drunk.” Lamar told that witness that at the end of the beating he had performed a back kick on Zoe, then as she was running back towards him, had kicked her again. Lamar Roberts claimed that this final kick caused Zoe Garcia to fall down to the ground. This time she didn’t get up. Heather Trujillo and Lamar Roberts thought that Zoe might have been playing a trick on them and put her into the bath and ran water over her, which actually temporarily revived her…until she stopped breathing again. In a move which would stun EMT’s everywhere, Lamar Roberts chose this moment to crack an egg in Zoe Garcia’s mouth to see if she was really hurt or if she was just “messing around with them.” Well, the egg went down Zoe’s throat and the pair finally decided, 15 minutes after the 7-year-old stopped breathing, that maybe they should pick up the phone and call someone to help. Her mother and paramedics were called, and Zoe was rushed to the hospital. The doctors treating her inventoried a broken right wrist, more than 20 serious bruises over her body, bleeding neck muscles and a torn skin flap by her tongue. She was pronounced dead that night. According to the coroner, the cause of death was blunt force trauma to her brain and central nervous system. Lamar Roberts had no problem placing the blame on Heather Trujillo, claiming to the police that the two sisters had been upstairs wrestling around while he was downstairs playing video games. This might have worked except for that statement he made to a witness, where he claimed to have done most of the beating himself. This wasn’t the first time Lamar and Heather abused others in this household, either. Five people in the neighborhood contacted the Weld County Department of Social Services in the months leading up to Zoe’s death. One of the neighbors claimed that Zoe spent a lot of time at her house during the summer and was often asking for food. A month or so after school had started, Zoe Garcia had told this neighbor that a couch had fallen on one of the 3-year-old twin’s head. Another neighbor Rhonda Simonetti, had baby-sat Zoe and her twin sisters twice, for four days each time, when she noticed bruises on Zoe. The first time I asked her, she said she fell down the stairs. The second time, she started crying and said Lamar had been hitting her. Rhonda Simonetti said she took a day off work to report the abuse to the Weld County Department of Social Services but never heard back. Well, good work, Weld County Department of Social Services! Way to spend our tax dollars. Heather Trujillo and Lamar Roberts were arrested on the 18th of December, 2007. They were charged with child abuse resulting in death, a Class II felony. They could be sentenced to 48 years in prison if convicted. Do Heather Trujillo and Lamar Roberts deserve Hell? * Yes - both of them (92%, 107 Votes) * Yes - but only Lamar Roberts (5%, 6 Votes) * No - neither of them do (2%, 2 Votes) * Yes - but only Heather Trujillo (1%, 1 Votes)

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12-22-2007, 01:59 AM	#2
Doggcow Rebel Laughs At Unbelievers Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 8,298 Adopt-a-Bronco: Von Miller	Deserve hell? Rofl wtf? Yea its ****ty, but this isnt something new. I remember reading about someone babysitting and killing a kid with a choke hold or something.

12-22-2007, 02:03 AM	#3
Los Broncos Ring of farmers Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Anaheim Hills, Santa Ana Mountains CA Posts: 18,766 Adopt-a-Bronco: Ryan Clady	Death is the only thing that comes to mind, what a POS!

12-22-2007, 02:05 AM	#4
spdirty Ring of Famer Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Bailey Posts: 13,883 Adopt-a-Bronco: Koppen	I just don't understand how people get off hurting little kids. I hope the inmates at Weld County hear about this story and I'd like to crawl in the same snuggie with these 2 peices of garbage up.

12-22-2007, 02:19 AM	#5
baja It is what it Is. Pay attention. Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 53,798 Adopt-a-Bronco: Buy My Book	In the end times the innocent will go first with the worst of it being saved for those left .

12-22-2007, 02:21 AM	#6
JCMElway Moderate-erator Dominate! Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 6,866 Adopt-a-Bronco: Oleg	Yeah, I'm not normally a big supporter of the death penalty, but these two are very deserving. Oh, and the Mom should be charges with accesory to murder, neglect, reckless endangerment.....and whatever else they can throw at her.

12-22-2007, 06:29 AM	#9
Spider Mr Diplomacy I survived Tebow Mania at the Mane Join Date: May 2001 Location: Elway was just an arm =MacGruder Posts: 84,438 Adopt-a-Bronco: Von Miller	I just dont get it ........ I got 6 beuatifull kids , they have never been with a baby sitter ( outside of family ), me and my wife have never really trusted anyone with them ........

12-22-2007, 09:01 AM	#10
TailgateNut Bleedin' orange! .......as much as tebonites Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mile High Posts: 20,018 Adopt-a-Bronco: Howard Griffith	in another case the mom of the Boulder county girl who died at the hands of the moms' boyfriend has been convicted. She faces 16-48 years in the slammer and her boyfriend is due to face "the Law" next month. Anyone who hurt a child needs to be ****ing lynched from the nearest tree. PERIOD!

12-22-2007, 04:54 PM	#12
Spider Mr Diplomacy I survived Tebow Mania at the Mane Join Date: May 2001 Location: Elway was just an arm =MacGruder Posts: 84,438 Adopt-a-Bronco: Von Miller	It takes a low life scum to beat a defensless child to death ...... I am here in Greeley co , right now , the father is now preparing to bring charges against Social Services , though he hasnt seen the Girl in 3 years .......

12-22-2007, 05:22 PM	#13
theAPAOps5 A new beginning! Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Denver Posts: 26,057 Adopt-a-Bronco: Watermock - RIP	Seeing as how most people in prison got there as the chain reaction started usually by some form of abuse this guy will get the justice he deserves. Handed down to him by people who know intimately what he had done to this little girl. I am the proponent of eye for and eye tooth for a tooth. I think the best thing they can do is give these kids the max sentence of 48 years. Its essentially their death penalty.