Credit: Arnold Contreras Facebook) Gabriel Fernandez with his siblings Virginia and Ezequiel are the elder siblings to Gabriel Fernandez who witnessed the brutality dished to their brother. These kids lived in fear.
Gabriel’s brother and sister said that their mother had made them lie to social workers, and Ezequiel said he was concerned “she was going to do the same things to me”. Both Ezequiel and Virginia testified at their mother’s boyfriend Isauro Aguirre’s murder trial. What happened to Gabriel Fernandez?
After all, their biological mother, Pearl, is in prison for life, and their stepfather, Isauro, is on death row. Read on to find out about Gabriel Fernandez’s siblings.
Since we here to discuss Ezequiel Fernandez ( Ezequiel C. as obtained from the original document of the court), we will have to cover the harrowing story of Gabriel Fernandez, Gabriel’s mother, Pearl Sinthia Fernandez, Gabriel’s sister, Virginia Contreras and Pearl’s boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre.
Who were Gabriel Fernandez’s siblings?
Gabriel Fernandez’s siblings were introduced to court simply as Ezequiel C. and Virginia C. At the time of appearing, Ezequiel was 16. Gabriel was the youngest of the three. Though their testimonies were not recorded (as they were minors at the time), transcripts prove the harrowing tale they had to say about Gabriel.
On the night of the 911 call, Ezequiel recalled hearing Gabriel being beaten in the room until it all went silent. Before placing the call, he was instructed to say that they had been playing when Gabriel hit his head on a cabinet.
Ezequiel recounted how Gabriel was kept in the ‘box’ most of the time. The kids would have to lie when social workers came to visit. Ezequiel also recalled how Aguirre would beat him with a metal hanger, the metal part of a belt, a baseball bat, a wooden club. He was also shot in the face and groin area with a BB gun.
He was also shot in the face and groin area with a BB gun. The elder brother went on to narrate how Gabriel was often dressed in girl’s clothes and sent to school. His sister, Virginia, would meet him in the school washroom and take his usual clothes, which she’d exchange with Gabriel.
Gabriel fell over and did not get back up. This is when Pearl and Isauro threw him in the shower and shouted at him to wake up. When he did not respond, they called 911.
Naturally, their wishes and the right to privacy must be respected. Therefore, while an exact update on the current situation of Ezequiel and Virginia is unavailable, they are most likely staying with their grandparents. Hopefully, the siblings will be able to move past the tragedy and have a life of their own.
The docuseries does not, in any way, edit their accounts, so we feel the full force of what Gabriel went through. Since Gabriel’s siblings do provide some crucial information, which helps us understand Gabriel’s situation at home better, you might be wondering where they are now. After all, their biological mother, Pearl, is in prison for life, …
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What did the Gabriel Fernandez siblings tell the court about?
The Gabriel Fernandez siblings further told the court about how their mother Pearl Fernandez deceived social workers. Virginia described Gabriel’s solitary life and his confinement in a cupboard. The siblings would sneak food to the young child while he was imprisoned in his own home.
The Netflix sensation “The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez” has left viewers with many questions about the fates of those involved in the saga surrounding the young boy’s tortuous, horrific death. Chief among these questions are those about the fates of the Gabriel Fernandez siblings after the trial.
Ezequiel and Virginia told the court that Isauro would force Gabriel to eat cat litter, spray him with pepper spray, make him bathe in cold water, and would not permit him to use the toilet , the Express reports.
A settlement was reached between the parties in the amount of $2.6 million.
His brother Ezequiel located notes written by Gabriel that described how he wanted to die and brought them to the attention of the therapist Carmen Le Norgant who subsequently forwarded the evidence of suicidal ideation on through the system yet nothing happened.
The siblings were even forced to participate in the beating of their brother with Ezequiel describing how he coached Gabriel to “fall down quickly” to make such sessions shorter in duration.
How old was Gabriel Fernandez when he died?
Viewers’ hearts broke for Gabriel Fernandez while watching Netflix’s new true crime documentary, The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez, but what happened to the little boy’s surviving siblings? Before his death, the 8-year-old had an older brother, Ezequiel, and older sister, Virginia.
At the time she and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, took her youngest in, her other son was 11 and her daughter was 9.
They said they tried to sneak him food when he was locked in “the cubby” and instruct him on how to pretend to be more hurt than he was so that each instance of physical abuse would be over sooner. Ultimately, they were able to help get justice on his behalf.
How much did Gabriel Fernandez’s grandparents get sued for?
In 2014, they were part of a lawsuit against the County of Los Angeles and assorted services in the city asking for damages, which is believed to have been settled together with a suit filed by Gabriel Fernandez’s grandparents for $2.6 million, split among multiple parties.
He also notes how the siblings would sometimes try to sneak food to their brother after he was locked in the cupboard. Ezequiel and Virginia were also there when Gabriel died. Per Therolf’s account, Virginia was asked to help soak up her brother’s blood from the floor, and sat on the bed while the beating took place.
The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez features many detailed, upsetting descriptions of the torture and killing of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez. However, there are two victims of Pearl Fernandez and Isauro Aguirre ‘s torturing of the child many have not considered—Virginia and Ezequiel, the siblings of Gabriel who witnessed much …
Garrett Therolf’s piece for The Atlantic, which covers much of the same ground as The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez, details some of the events that Gabriel’s sister and brother witnessed. For example, he writes of how Ezequiel discovered notes from his brother where he said he wanted to kill himself, and how Pearl Fernandez …
However, there are two victims of Pearl Fernandez and Isauro Aguirre ‘s torturing of the child many have not considered—Virginia and Ezequiel, the siblings of Gabriel who witnessed much of the violence inflicted on their brother, including his death.
Ezequiel, meanwhile, led the paramedics into the apartment after Gabriel stopped breathing. At Aguirre’s trial, Ezequiel said he was told by his mother and her boyfriend to say he had been playing with Gabriel when Gabriel fell and bumped his head.
Per Therolf, Virginia and Ezequiel urged prosecutor Jon Hatami to accept the plea so they did not have to testify against their mother. Virginia and Ezequiel now live with a relative in another state, in what The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez called in a title card a “safe harbor.”.
