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Mortal Kombat kills a 7 year old, apparently...
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21-12-2007 3:21pm#1
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It turnes out they were playing Mortal Combat at the time. Here's a different source of the story, more detailed:Some website wrote:
Two Colorado teens, Heather Trujillo, of Johnstown and her boyfriend, Lamar Roberts, of Westminster were arrested on Tuesday, charged in the death of Trujillo’s 7-year-old half-sister, Zoe Garcia.
Trujillo, 16, and Roberts, 17, were in charge of babysitting Zoe and Trujillo’s 3-year-old twin half-sisters on December 6th while the girls’ mother, Dana Trujillo, 30, was working 5 blocks away at the Corral Bar.
Authorities arrived at the Trujillo residence around 11:00pm and found Zoe unconscious and not breathing.
At first, Roberts told police that he was downstairs watching television while Trujillo and Zoe wrestled upstairs. An unnamed witness, however, told authorities that Roberts said that Zoe had asked them to stop wrestling and when asked by the friend why they didn’t, he responded, “I don’t know; I was drunk.” He claims to be a martial-arts expert with his hands registered as “lethal weapons.”
Trujillo later admitted to police that after eating dinner with Zoe, she and Roberts began wrestling, playing a game they called “Mortal Kombat.” In the affidavit, Trujillo said she then”tripped the victim, punching her in the stomach; karate chopped her lower arms, punched and pinched the victim’s thighs, kicked her in the shins, slapped her stomach and buttocks, and poked at the victim’s chest.” She claims Zoe playfully did the same thing back in a playful manner and, at one point, Trujillo tried to pick Zoe up to try to shake her but instead dropped her on her right arm.
Roberts said he had performed a back kick on her and then kicked her again as she ran toward him, which made her fall back. She didn’t get up and had stopped breathing.
They said they put her in a bath, which only temporarily revived her, but she stopped breathing again. Roberts said he cracked an egg in her mouth “to see if she was messing around with them” but it went down her throat.
A full 15 minutes later, the pair called Dana Trujillo and then 911.
When she arrived at the North Colorado Medical Center, she was pronounced dead.
An autopsy revealed that Zoe had died of blunt force trauma. The girl had sustained a broken right wrist, more than 20 bruises over her body, swelling of the brain, bleeding in her neck muscles and under her spine. A skin flap near her tongue had also been torn. Her death was categorized as a homicide.
The grandmother of Dana Trujillo’s twins, Peggy Jeffries, says she had been concerned about the wellbeing of Zoe and the twins.
“I was concerned about them eating and being well taken care of,” Jeffries said. She claims to have become concerned about the children’s wellbeing when she picked up Zoe from school one day and found bruises on her arms and chest. Zoe told her the bruises came from Roberts.
Jeffries said she contacted Social Services, but they never took the actions necessary to prevent a tragedy like this from happening. “I tried to do everything in the world, but it was too late,” she said.
A neighbor said she suspected Zoe was being abused and said she reported it to authorities before she died.
Rhonda Simonetti said she baby-sat Zoe and the twins 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.”
Simonetti said she took a day off to report the abuse but never heard back.
Another neighbor, Jessy Golden, said she contacted social services after Zoe told her that a couch had fallen on the head of one of the twins.
The Weld County Department of Social Services refuse to discuss the case.
Zoe’s father, Anthony Garcia, said he and Dana Trujillo had joint custody of Zoe but said he had just discovered her whereabouts after a three-year search. He was working on papers to get custody of her when he learned of her death on December 7th.
Neighbors describe the Trujillo family, who moved to the quiet neighborhood last April, as “combative.”
“They didn’t fit in,” said next-door neighbor, Laura Valdivieso. “They were noisy and disruptive.”
She described Zoe was “a beautiful little girl” who “made friends with everybody. I gave her a jump-rope, which she used almost every single day.”
Her husband, John Valdivieso, said Zoe once asked him for some bread, which he understood to mean she was looking for food to eat. He gave her half a loaf. “When the police came to tell us she had died, my wife took it very hard. She started crying.” He adds, “Zoe helped me dig out some dandelions last summer. She was very sweet.”
Dana Trujillo’s sister, Erika Hoffman, says all the accusations leveled against the household only worsen the tragedy and distort the truth. “I think she provided a safe home for them. I think she is as good a mother as I’ve ever seen,” she said.
Hoffman revealed to media, after Friday’s hearing for the teens, that county social services took the twins after Zoe’s death.
The teens are charged with on count of felony child abuse causing death, a Class II felony. Both are being held on $100,000 bond. They have been charged as adults and, if convicted, face 16 to 48 years in prison.
I hope they get everything coming to them.0
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