Kareem Leiva and Heather Barron were convicted of murder charges in the death of 10-year-old Anthony Avalos. The case exposed massive failures in L.A. County's child care systems.
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"They’re nothing short of monsters for what they did," said L.A. County Deputy Dist. Atty. Jonathan Hatami. "Both of these defendants are evil individuals."
Less than three years before his death, 10-year-old Anthony Avalos told a school vice principal he had been abused by his mother, prompting a report to a child abuse hotline, the then-vice principal testified in the murder trial of the boy's mother and her boyfriend.