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Mom who kept 8-year-old in wooden box and tortured him with Icy Hot will continue rotting in prison after failing to convince judge her guilty plea was 'coerced'
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A California mother who was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for "beating, binding, burning and starving" her 8-year-old son with help from her boyfriend has been denied resentencing for a second time after insisting she was "coerced" into pleading guilty.

The resentencing attempt by Pearl Fernandez, 42, of Palmdale, was shot down Monday by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge George G. Lomeli following an emotionally charged petition hearing.

"We are here again, reliving and reopening wounds," said Emily Carranza, one of several family members who spoke during the court proceeding, according to local NBC affiliate KNBC.

In her latest petition, which was filed in February, Fernandez claimed that the state-appointed defense attorney who represented her in the murder case "provided ineffective assistance of counsel" and "coerced me into signing a plea of guilt for a sentence of life without possibility of parole," according to local ABC affiliate KABC and the Southern California-based City News Service.

Fernandez was sentenced in 2018 after entering a guilty plea in which she confessed to the brutal torture and mistreatment of her son, Gabriel, who died from blunt force trauma and child abuse over a long period of time. Fernandez's boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, was also found guilty of participating in the abuse and sentenced to death.

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heck i would tell her fine we will have a new trial but if found quilty it will be the death sentence and since your partner in crime is on death row still he will be called in as witness do you think he loves you enough that he would want you to die along with him??? i bet she would change her tune very fast and never again challenge her life wop ...i love to hate people like her... what they did to their victims doesn't count but "poor me" sure does grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr if i caused the death of one person, even accidently, i know i couldn't live with myself i would feel too guilty and it would be ex" car accident i would say to myself, i really didn't have to go out , or i rushed to much or i didn't pay attention enough" i would drive myself way over the bend that is for sure... i would never forgive myself anf for sure never ask for mercy i would deserve any consequences i was given.........
 
This one was horrible, both of them tortured him, they also traumatized the other children who witnessed their horrific abuse and treatment! The child had no one to represent him, he was tortured by these two demons! She’s complaining! She was coerced!! She should have gotten the death penalty!
 
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