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Mario was 18 months old - he was rushed to emergency room. Mario was admitted to the emergency room at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara from St. John’s Hospital in critical condition and unconscious; bruising on face, cheek area, under chin, corner of mouth & right ear; a fracture of the right wrist. CAT scan showed subdural hematoma (bleeding causing pressure on brain.) Doctor said the injuries were non-accidental. Surgery performed to relieve pressure on the brain. He also had a broken wrist that occurred 6-10 days before the head injury - also non-accidental. He was placed on life support & not expected to live. Gaudalupe spent a mere 6 months in the county jail. When she was released, she went back to Mexico. Mario was placed in foster home in the care of a nurse who had experience with post-op brain surgery patients. He thrived for over 2½ years. Foster mom taught Mario how to walk, talk & feel safe, even though he continued to have night terrors about his mother. It was during a Christmas party when 3 social workers arrived - unannounced. Driving in a county vehicle, they removed Mario from his safe haven & drove him to Tijuana, Mexico. Even though Mario’s mother had an outstanding felony warrant for her arrest that was featured in the Ventura County Star newspaper three weeks earlier, they still walked little 4-year-old Mario across the border & handed him to his abuser. Why hasn't social workers & judges been held accountable? What about his safety?

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LETHAL INJECTION - CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT?

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Contributed by: Jane LeMond-Alvarez on 9/26/2007

There is nothing cruel and unusual about injections. Doctors give hundreds of thousands of injections each day throughout this world to people, including infants. Hundreds of millions of tax payer's money is spent in courts arguing that shots are cruel and unusual.

This is a philosophical issue only. Nothing more, nothing less. It has nothing to do with the individual prisoner. If it did, then where is their argument with the suffering of the victims? Victims truly suffer - much more than the perpetrator goes through by getting a shot.

The human spirit is ever hopeful that people can and will change. However, facts are facts and we cannot dispute them nor make excuses for them. Time will soften the memories but the facts will never change. It is just human nature to try to forget the evil that it sees or hears in an effort to attain some measure of respite, relief, and to maintain sanity.

When people work with criminals, they often begin to start feeling empathy if not a feeling that there is hope for changes in behavior and personality.

People tend to let their emotions take over which lights the fire of hope and redemption. Is that a bad thing you might ask? Yes. These actions are dangerous as they tend to minimize the facts and acts that originally put that person in custody. This type of thinking also puts other innocent people at risk if it leads to freedom for that prisoner. There are countless cases of criminals being released because they have been pronounced "redeemed", only to plunder or kill again once set free.

If you want to see cruel and unusual punishment, go to the hospitals and see the infants and small toddlers who have been beaten, raped, sodomized, burned, scalded, starved, and killed. STOP wasting my tax dollars. I'd rather it be spent on the victims that have been injured and to the families of murdered family members.

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