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A 19-year-old woman accused in the death of her 2-year-old son pleaded no contest Thursday to a charge of willful cruelty to a child and faces two years in prison.

Charges of murder and assaulting a child resulting in death were dismissed under the plea agreement taken by Ayled Chavez. She is due to be sentenced Jan. 7.

Chavez and her former boyfriend, Kaleb Kessinger, were arrested in May on suspicion of killing Ramon Angel Reyes-Chavez then dumping his body in the Kern River Canyon.

Prosecutor Nick Lackie said Thursday he plans on calling Chavez to testify at Kessinger's murder trial.

Chavez told police she left Ramon in the care of Kessinger in late April while she went out to dinner with a friend. Kessinger is not the boy's father.

When she returned, she noticed injuries to Ramon's head and face, she told investigators. The boy died that night. They left his body in a car until the next morning when they drove to the Kern River Canyon and dumped the corpse.

She said they returned to the spot later the same day and buried the body.

Chavez at first reported her child had been kidnapped but soon admitted to lying, court documents said. She was arrested after leading police the morning of April 26 to where Ramon's body was buried.
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Is dude wearing make-up or is that a black eye?
Looks like some one in jail gave him a fisty welcome.
It does. And his right arm is casted.

He's a gangbanger, and he allegedly stole $1200 from his 87-year-old grandfather. He's also alleged to have killed young Master Ramon. Lots of reasons for him to be cross-threaded with the other inmates.

--Al
 
The trial for Kaleb Kessinger, charged with murder and other crimes in the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son, was postponed for three months Friday — the one-year anniversary on which authorities found the child’s body.

Kessinger’s trial had been set for May 6, but defense attorney David A. Torres filed a motion to push back the date. He’s now scheduled for trial Aug. 12.

In court Friday, Kessinger, 31, held up a book to cover his face from the media. Clothed in orange jail garb, he was wearing glasses and has grown a beard.

Kessinger and his former girlfriend, Ayled Chavez, were arrested in April of last year on suspicion of killing Ramon Angel Reyes-Chavez then dumping his body in the Kern River Canyon. They later returned to bury the body, according to court documents.

Chavez, 20, led police to where the body was buried the morning of April 26, 2018.

She told police she left Ramon in the care of Kessinger while she went out to dinner with a friend. Kessinger is not the boy’s father.

Chavez has pleaded no contest to willful cruelty to a child in exchange for the dismissal of charges of murder and assault on a child under 8 resulting in death. She’s serving a two-year prison term.
 
Jun 3, 2020
The trial for a man charged with first-degree murder and other crimes in the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son has been pushed back one month.

At a hearing Wednesday morning, Kaleb Kessinger’s trial date was postponed from July 6 to Aug. 3. He remains in custody on $1,055,000 bail.

Kessinger, 22, and his former girlfriend, Ayled Chavez, were arrested in April 2018 on suspicion of killing Chavez’s son and dumping his body in the Kern River Canyon. They later returned to the scene to bury the body of Ramon Angel Reyes-Chavez, court documents said.

Kessinger also faces charges from a separate incident in which he’s alleged to have stolen $1,200 from his grandfather and stashed guns for the benefit of the West Side Crips gang.

Chavez was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading no contest to willful cruelty to a child in exchange for the dismissal of charges of murder and assault on a child under 8 resulting in death.

She’s expected to testify at Kessinger’s trial.

Chavez, 20 at the time, led police to where Ramon’s body was buried. She told investigators she left Ramon in the care of Kessinger while she went out to dinner with a friend. Kessinger is not the boy’s father.

When she returned from dinner, she noticed Ramon’s head and face were injured, she told police in court documents. The child died later that night.
 
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The jury in the trial of a man charged with killing his then-girlfriend’s 2-year-old son in 2018 will have to decide whether he inflicted the fatal injuries or, as the defense said Tuesday during opening statements, the child’s mother was responsible and laid the blame on him.

Kaleb Kessinger, 22, and his former girlfriend, Ayled Chavez, were arrested in April 2018 on suspicion of killing Chavez’s son and burying his body in the Kern River Canyon. Chavez accepted a plea deal and agreed to testify at Kessinger’s trial.

Prosecutor Courtney Lewis told the jury during her 20-minute opening statement the only verdict supported by the evidence is to find Kessinger guilty of all charges including first-degree murder. She said Kessinger was left in charge of the child while Chavez was out, and when Chavez returned the boy had multiple injuries to his face and head.

Kessinger refused to take Ramon to a hospital until Chavez, 21, agreed to lie about what happened, Lewis said. They finally started driving to Kern Medical, but the boy died on the way. They returned home, and later drove to Democrat Hot Springs, where the child was buried.

Told by Kessinger to come up with a story about what happened to Ramon, Chavez called 911 and reported the child was kidnapped, Lewis said. But her story didn’t add up, and upon further questioning she told police Kessinger killed her son. She led detectives to where Ramon’s body was buried.

Police went to Kessinger’s house, and while there saw a black BMW in the neighborhood. Chavez identified the vehicle as driven by Kessinger, and the BMW sped off as officers gave chase.

Kessinger crashed a short time later, Lewis said, and had fled by the time officers got there. He was later arrested at a motel. By that time, his property had been searched.

“(Police) processed the scene at the defendant’s house,” Lewis said. “And there they found DNA evidence that would be consistent with the severe beating that Ramon received.”

That evidence included blood on a pillow and elsewhere, and soil on clothing that Ramon wore, she said.

Kessinger’s attorney, David A. Torres, painted Chavez as an unreliable witness prone to lying. During his 20-minute opening statement, Torres said Chavez gave five different accounts about what happened the night of Ramon’s death, and didn’t lead police to his body until the child had spent 30 hours in the ground.

Torres pointed out multiple instances where Chavez lied, from the false kidnapping she reported to telling investigators she saw the lights from Magic Mountain where the boy was buried. Magic Mountain lies in the opposite direction and more than 100 miles from where the child’s body was found, Torres said.

Both Chavez and Kessinger were initially charged with murder. Seven months later, Chavez met with a prosecutor and detective, Torres said. She later pleaded no contest to willful cruelty to a child in exchange for the dismissal of charges of murder and assault on a child under 8 resulting in death. Also, she agreed to testify.

“You’re going to learn from her testimony that what she did was point the finger of suspicion at Mr. Kessinger and piled it on with information that she believed was credible at the time,” Torres said.

He asked the jury to listen closely to her testimony, observe her demeanor and at the end of the trial find Kessinger not guilty of charges of murder and assault on a child under 8 resulting in death.

Following opening statements, Chavez was called to the stand, where she told the jury she met Kessinger about three months before the death of her son. Their relationship was pretty typical at first, she said, but they soon began cheating on each other and the dynamic changed.

Kessinger insisted putting her name on websites to advertise her as a prostitute, and she agreed because she wanted to stay with him, she testified. The money she made went to him. She said Kessinger told her how long to meet with each “date” and how much they should pay.

On the night of Ramon’s death, Chavez testified, she met with a man and they talked outside a Vallarta market then ate at a Jack In The Box. She said the man posted images of lots of money on Facebook, and she met with him to find out how to make more money.

During the meeting, Ramon was in Kessinger’s care. When Kessinger later picked her up, he didn’t have Ramon with him like he usually did, and when they arrived at Kessinger’s house he kept the light off in the room where he said Ramon was sleeping, according to Chavez’s testimony.

Chavez said the room smelled “like a lot of blood.” She said she went to the bed and felt Ramon’s body. It was cold.

“I turned on to the light to see him and it didn’t look like him anymore,” Chavez said. He had a black eye, his face was swollen and there was a cut to his head.
 
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Kaleb Kessinger has officially been sentenced 25 years to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering former girlfriend, Ayled Chavez's, 2-year-old son, Ramon Angel Reyes-Chavez

The DA's office said Kessinger, 22, was found guilty of first-degree murder, assault on a child under 8 causing death, recklessly evading a peace officer and resisting arrest.

On April 25, 2018, Ayled Chavez called 911 to report that her 2-year-old son Ramon Chavez had been kidnapped by an unknown Hispanic male. Chavez ultimately admitted to officers that she made the story up, and that Kessinger killed Ramon.

Court documents showed that 19-year-old Chavez told police her son had sustained "several injuries" as a result of the child "being hit by the door of a vehicle" after being in the care of Kessinger. She revealed that Kessinger buried her son near the mountains.

Chavez was sentenced in December of 2018 to two years in prison. She was released on April 26, 2019, which is also a year to the date of when her 2-year-old child was found in the Kern River Canyon.
 
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