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Calif. Man Gets Death for Sexual Assault, Torture, Murder of Girlfriend's 5-Year-Old Daughter

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SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (CBS/AP) Antonio Rodriguez has been sentenced to death for sexually assaulting and beating to death his girlfriend's 5-year-old daughter, Desarie Saravia.

The 29-year-old southern California man was sentenced Thursday in a San Fernando courtroom for the 2004 attack. He was convicted in July of murder, torture and other charges.

Prosecutors say Rodriguez brutalized Desarie and her 6-year-old brother for months before he molested and beat the girl in a park restroom.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20015549-504083.html
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91 comments // Calif. Man Gets Death for Sexual Assault, Torture, Murder of Girlfriend's 5-Year-Old Daughter

  • ThatdBMe
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      ThatdBMe  
    • --Snip--The girl's mother, 32-year-old Debby Saravia, is awaiting trial on murder and other charges.--Snip--

      Good! Where the hell was she during these MONTHS of molestation?

    • 1 year ago
  • themotivateddropout
    • +1
      themotivateddropout  
    • I wonder how hard it would be to pay a guard or fellow inmate to open up his side with a shard of glass or razor.
      Or maybe they'd be more willing to rape him to death.
      Either way, I'll pay.

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
    • +1
      ayipis  
    • it is a hard pill to swallow...

      this piece of dung will sit in death row for decades EATING TAX PAYERS MONEY.....and as his day comes..some bleeding heart equally big asshole will come around and would say that what we are doing to this piece of humanity is inhumane...and will hold a candle light vigil and make a celebrity of this guy....

      BUT just need to let you know (someone has to be the bad guy and 'raise awarness" about this kind of shit)

    • 1 year ago
  • TheEmpireGuy
  • im1mjrpain
  • littlwarrior
  • ayipis
  • ayipis
  • Debrinconcita
    • +1
      Debrinconcita  
    • I am discusted by this crime done by this Demon on Earth. who would hurt an Innocent child but a demon from Hell? I pray for the mother & the living brother who survived this horrible crimes. GOD PLEASE BE WITH THEM NOW!

    • 1 year ago
  • Radical_Centrist
    • +4
      Radical_Centrist  
    • Debrinconcita:

      It is my understanding the reason the Mother is also being charged with murder is because she KNEW the SOB was abusing her kids and still left them with him. I think she DESERVES a worse punishment than the Man. What kind of a Mother LETS somebody abuse their kids? I hope they BOTH rot in Hell!

    • 1 year ago
  • maizein
  • device80
    • 0
      device80  
    • the mother is being tried for murder as well, hopefully the same will happen to him in prison, without the killing, just the rape and tourture should do for the first couple years, and hopefully at that point he just commits suicide. It sounds harsh but no child should ever have to even know what rape and tourture are no less have to endure it from some sik f&*k like this..... sad

    • 1 year ago
  • nursediesel
  • Alma_Proxy
  • Radical_Centrist
  • Colin_McCabe
  • toyotabedzrock
  • ayipis
    • -4
      ayipis  
    • toyotabedzrock:

      most criminals, dope heads, murderers and child molesters DOES think its really getting closer and closer to a Saudi Arabia type of laws..GOOD THING US NORMAL PEOPLE DON'T THINK like criminals, dope heads, murderers and child molesters.

      HOW ABOUT YOU? worried?

      ***(typical radical left winged ***** sending out vibes of support for this animal)***

    • 1 year ago
  • Radical_Centrist
  • Colin_McCabe
  • KSirys
    • -1
      KSirys  
    • ayipis:

      "GOOD THING US NORMAL PEOPLE DON'T THINK like criminals".. no, they are just racist bigots, cowards to stand for what they believe in, so they put up fake pics and attack other races... but that's what cowards do...

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
    • +2
      ayipis  
    • Colin_McCabe:

      well brilliant people like yourself is going to make sure that this guy would RAPE AND VICTIMIZE society for a few decades...maybe you should see this from a victim's point of view instead of from a criminal's end.

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
    • +1
      ayipis  
    • KSirys:

      LOL..yeah, like i said..criminals tend to defend each other..

      (do you got your candle light vigil stuff ready? i should had know what would send these left winged nuts into a frenzy...try attacking the poor child molesting murderer and you get the full wrath LOL)..

      so who does your fighting when they come for you???

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
    • +1
      ayipis  
    • toyotabedzrock:

      the catch is this asshole just brutalized a young girl and was found guilty and the kind of justice hand just been handed down

      ..and you are worried about the punishment??? (again, you are seeing this from the criminal's end of the stick)

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
  • Colin_McCabe
  • EtVoila
  • Jackstowne
    • 0
      Jackstowne  
    • Good Lord. How is this not a (gender-based) hate crime? For a man to be so consumed with violent bigotry that he would brutally torture a child is beyond disturbing. And yet this is too common.

    • 1 year ago
  • ministove
    • +2
      ministove  
    • Jackstowne:

      well...considering he "brutalized" both the daughter and her 6 year old brother, I don't think it is gender based hate crime. It's far beyond that. When someone intentionally tortures someone else— whether male or female—even going so far as sexual assault and murder, you've got to think there was something worse than violent bigotry going on. Unfortunately, I do agree that this behavior is all to common in our society,and for a large variety of reasons, of which I'd like to refrain from going in to...you may elaborate as you must. +'d though.

    • 1 year ago
  • Prettynpink6
  • jubal
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  
    • jubal:

      I believe I read she is up on murder charges as well. Yes last line "The girl's mother, 32-year-old Debby Saravia, is awaiting trial on murder and other charges."

    • 1 year ago
  • ministove
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      ministove  
    • jubal:

      "Prosecutors say Rodriguez brutalized Desarie and her 6-year-old brother for months before he molested and beat the girl in a park restroom. He'd taken the children to the park while their mother cleaned a house nearby." —http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20015549-504083.html

      Check out the full article, instead of just the abstract—it mentions that he had done much of this while the mother was working nearby. I'm guessing she trusted this sociopath with her children because of their relationship, and unfortunately, what happened eventually happened. the most tragic aspect is that all too often this occurs, and there isn't really an effective way to prevent this from happening, only retributive intervention after the crime has been commited.

    • 1 year ago
  • jubal
    • +2
      jubal  
    • Agreed the man deserves the maximum penalty for what he did. Anyone who does this type of crime should be punished, but what isn't clear is whether or not the death penalty is truly a deterrence to future people committing these crimes. Most of these people who commit crimes like this aren't thinking..."Oh I better not do this I might get the death penalty."

    • 1 year ago
  • hatethapoet
    • 0
      hatethapoet  
    • This man deserves everything that is going to happen for him, an eye for an eye. I am very surprised that he made it this long behind bars without being tortured, assulted or murdered! Where was her mother at while all this was taking place?? Couldnt she see the past months of this happening, she deserves to be tortured too. Dont you think mabey instead of her cleaning up his house she shoulda been at the park with her kids! Come on ladies wise up! People should have a licence to be parents!!

    • 1 year ago
  • ezrierin
    • -1
      ezrierin  
    • The Sumerians use to have this thing they called “The Box.” They would sit you on a chair, tied up naked inside a box with your head sticking out the top. They would put you on a busy street corner. No one could kill you, but they could force feed you. After a time the maggots, rats, mice etc. could not tell the flesh from the poo. It took a month to die.

    • 1 year ago
  • putdownmypants
  • toyotabedzrock
  • ayipis
  • ministove
    • +2
      ministove  
    • toyotabedzrock:

      I think you might have it backward there. It's the violent bloodthirsty society (specifically the statistically significant outliers) that create the need for such an excess in punishment. While I do find something wrong with the death penalty on a humanistic level, I don't think we've refined the parameters for placing a criminal on death row to a moderate enough level, so that we are not taking away the lives of people who could possibly be reformed (if that's even possible) and given another chance at society. Then again, policies regarding the death penalty vary from state to state (for various good and bad reasons, I'm sure), so it becomes less likely to generate a country-wide (thus, societal) consensus on this issue. Nonetheless, I think that Antonio Rodriguez will get what is coming to him, as there is no doubt in my mind that what he did—at the very least—deserves the punishment he's been given.

    • 1 year ago
  • saffy1234
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      saffy1234  
    • Good for this piece of shit. But when does he pay ? 5 or ten years from now, until his lawyers appeal his case up the ying yang. I just don't understand the justice system. Maybe I'm just stupid or something ! And H2O, let's see someone do that to your little girl, and maybe you'll feel a little differently about capital punishment. This isn't some guy, who knocked off some other guy, in a drunken bar fight. This is someone who robbed the life from this poor innocent little child. But again, that's just me. What the hell do I know - right ?

    • 1 year ago
  • ezrierin
    • 0
      ezrierin  
    • saffy1234:

      The scum of society need to know that they will suffer the ravages of Hell if they do these kinds of things. Death only brings no suffering at all. We will not lower ourselves to the level of these killers, while at the same time we can show the scum of the earth there really and truly is a Hell. We made it just for them.
      Death sentences bring automatic appeals by law. Life sentences are hardly noticed by the judiciary and society. Let’s get these fu*kers convicted and packed off to their isolation cage ASAP. See my suggestion below about that.
      PS: I’m open to suggestions.

    • 1 year ago
  • saffy1234
    • 0
      saffy1234  
    • ezrierin:

      I hear you. But you see, the problem with that is, is that not everyone believes in that fiery place of pain and suffering that you're referring too. There are thousands of religions in the world, and many different beliefs about what happens to someone in the here-after. If there is in fact one. I myself am agnostic. However, in ancient Israel, they didn't have prisons. So, if you killed someone, you were put to death. Hence the term - an eye for an eye. I myself am not Jewish - but I do know this. Getting back to the issue at hand here. My stepdaughter is all grown, and married now - I'm happy to say. So I have never lost a little child in such a horrible way. But, just to hear about this act upon this little girl makes my skin crawl. So, can you imagine how a parent or another family member would feel when such a thing happens to one of their loved ones. I don't think they want to hear about dropping down to other people's levels, and having a monster like this suffer in some place, whether here, or on another plane of existence. They want justice. And this is what I'm talking about here. If someone were to take my child's life, I would not want that person to see another day of life either. No, it wouldn't bring my little girl back. But at least I'll have the knowledge that he's paid with with his life. He and I are square ! Justice. And if there is a heaven, I'll get to see my little girl again one day.

    • 1 year ago
  • H2O_4U
    • -1
      H2O_4U  
    • I don't support the death penalty in anyway shape or form. It's inhuman and it sinks to their level.
      We need to think of ways to prevent these things from happening in the first place.

    • 1 year ago
  • ezrierin
  • toyotabedzrock
  • toyotabedzrock
    • +2
      toyotabedzrock  
    • ezrierin:

      We need to listen to people who study these issues, current courts totally ignore these people.

      All of the current laws are based on what the victims families want during there grief.

      Making them laws providing for retribution and not prevention!

    • 1 year ago
  • 2helenahandbasket
    • 0
      2helenahandbasket  
    • H2O_4U:

      I suppose you think the government should somehow be able to micromanage everyone's life, read everyone's minds, supervise everyone's every waking moment, make sure everyone has a perfect life with no problems so that everyone everafter will live in peace. Typical liberal pie-in-the-sky.

      Do you not see that we have no way of knowing what a person will do until he does it? How, exactly, are we suppose to prevent things like this?

    • 1 year ago
  • cztheday
    • 0
      cztheday  
    • I sometimes think as I am walking or driving how many of the people I am passing are capable of such monstrosities. I want to think the best of people, but I know that they are among us. I don't fear much for myself. I have been around a good while, and life has been mostly good. But I fear for my loved ones with men like this preying on society.

    • 1 year ago
  • Aaron_Brutus
    • +1
      Aaron_Brutus  
    • cztheday:

      one of my worst fears in life is for a man or men to force their way into my home and destroy what ive been blessed with. if that day ever comes they'd better kill me first cuz ill send em to the grave then commit suicide and kill em again.

    • 1 year ago
  • TheEmpireGuy
    • 0
      TheEmpireGuy  
    • cztheday:

      I completely understand. Sometimes I feel that I fear so much for the safety of the ones I love, that I could fall into utter paranoia at any moment. I wish sick people like the one in this story just didn't exist.

    • 1 year ago
  • skiersam10
  • NiceN
  • ezrierin
    • +2
      ezrierin  
    • Put his cell in the middle of a room. On every wall put pictures of the little girl he killed and her brother he beat. Put the pictures just out of his reach. Put them behind Plexiglas so he cannot spoil them no matter how much he tries. Light the display from inside so even in the dead of night, when he opens his eyes, he sees those children, and looks into their eyes.
      Make him sit in that cell for the rest of his life, isolated from everyone. Even the guards should not speak to him save for giving him orders.
      Is that not what we want for him? Death is nothingness, not even suffering. Let us make his Hell for him here. He will go on to nothing soon enough.
      The best part is he would have a hard time proving it was cruel and unusual punishment.

    • 1 year ago
  • TheEmpireGuy
  • Andrew_Douglas
  • CalgarC
    • 0
      CalgarC  
    • thats it... he should suffer... they should give him the "taken" treatment... maybe strip him of his clothes and make him eat horse shit each and every day until the day he dies...

    • 1 year ago
  • Aaron_Brutus
  • JanforGore
  • toyotabedzrock
    • +2
      toyotabedzrock  
    • JanforGore:

      Advocating torture means that anything else you advocate for will forever be stained with the suffering of other humans.

      If you do not move beyond this everything you advocate for will never happen.

      In fact this mentality plays into the hands of people like the Koch brothers. You helping to create a society that only selectively cares about human life, and accepts revenge and retribution as replacements for justice.

      In fact Saudi Arabia allows this kind of eye for eye punishment, should America be like Saudi Arabia?

    • 1 year ago
  • MisterWizard
  • TypeMemeHere
  • Sparky2U
  • Stoneyroad
    • 0
      Stoneyroad  
    • TypeMemeHere:

      thats 1/2 a good idea, but i could not sleep in a house built by a guy who raped,tortured & murdered my 5 yr old girl. Or any other.

      Look at her pic , if you were about move into a house, and were told it was built by the guy who did this, and 12 other carpenters with tainted souls like Freddy Krueger, would you want to make that your Home?

    • 1 year ago
  • FtheBULLSHT
  • flyingkick
    • 0
      flyingkick  
    • A death sentence in California usually means at least 15-20 years on death row.
      Doesn't sound like justice to me, but that's how the system works.

    • 1 year ago
  • Stoneyroad
    • +13
      Stoneyroad  
    • Why are we still doing medical experiments on innocent animals when we have so many guilty animals like this guy waiting for us to kill them anyway?

    • 1 year ago
  • toyotabedzrock
  • versasrev
  • RRRPirate
    • +5
      RRRPirate  
    • You want to really torture this guy? Put him in with some of the cops from that earlier Police the Largest Gang movie. I am sure by the end he will be bloody, tazed, violated with a plunger and shot a few times.

    • 1 year ago
  • dalistuff
  • CiiMONSTR
  • RRRPirate
    • +4
      RRRPirate  
    • dalistuff:

      Hell sit me in a room with him, I got two kids...trust that the anger from knowing what I would do to someone who does that to anyones kid. I would black out and walk out covered in blood trying to remember what happened

    • 1 year ago
  • RRRPirate
    • +1
      RRRPirate  
    • CiiMONSTR:

      Yeah that happens more often than night, most guys in jail do not even want to share a cell with a child molester. Oddly enough as people like to put it-Even CRIMINALS HAVE STANDARDS when it comes to sickness like this.

    • 1 year ago
  • tylervictoria1
  • tylervictoria1
    • +6
      tylervictoria1  
    • Forget the death penalty lets just let someone do to him what he did to that poor little girl. People who do harm to children make me sick to my stomach.

    • 1 year ago
  • bailey78
  • thetrimsmith
  • Incredulous
    • +5
      Incredulous  
    • bailey78:

      actually no, it won't fix him, all that would do is break him more. sadly, people who do this sort of thing to children, more often than not, were child victims themselves. When you hear the stories behind the stories, humans are capable of unimaginable cruelty, and that cruelty cycles through humanity over and over again, because we don't know how to fix it.

    • 1 year ago
  • EmperorThan
    • +10
      EmperorThan  
    • I don't see death as a punishment for people like this. I see it as an easy way out for him. A real punishment would be to make him live for the rest of his LONG life in an 8 by 6 cell for 23 hours a day.

      I've never actually understood why threatening a man who has no regard for life, with a death sentence, would be considered a punishment.

    • 1 year ago
  • versasrev
    • 0
      versasrev  
    • EmperorThan:

      I've never thought about it as punishment so much as throwing away the trash. If we speed up the appeals process to ensure that a fair trail and all legal safeguards where maintained, then I wouldn't have much problem with the death penalty. This would make for an efficient solving of this problem.

    • 1 year ago
  • Incredulous
    • +5
      Incredulous  
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    • EmperorThan:

      I don't think it is considered punishment, the purpose of the death penalty is more to remove this human from society. Punishment is actually a show of power that ostensibly has an end goal, but when human beings do things this horrible, a show of power will not change the behavior, so they are removed from society, either by lengthy prison sentences or death. You might be interested in Michele Foucault's "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison"....really interesting book.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
  • versasrev
    • +1
      versasrev  
    • treewolf39:

      Yeah, pretty much.

      I mean to be honest without seeing the evidence I have no idea if I believe if this man is guilty or not. That's the problem with corruption, it's hard to trust anything when it runs rampant. Although in instances such as these we can have faith that our fellow citizens will have the ability to properly understand and determine accurately the proper course; but then again people are stupid.

      I'm just going to wing it and say this guy is responsible so I can move about my day ... guess that's about all I can do for the moment.

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
    • 0
      treewolf39  
    • versasrev:

      I agree with your first comment about throwing out the trash. My love for my five year old daughter screams for protection from this type of predator. I am also keenly aware that people tend not to review all evidence and act from emotion toward their assumed culprit. Life in prison is cheaper then the death penalty and alleviates the responsibility of putting an innocent to death. Texas is one example of the fast track.

    • 1 year ago
  • versasrev
  • EmperorThan
  • toyotabedzrock
  • Radical_Centrist
    • +6
      Radical_Centrist  
    • This is one of those cases where even the most passive person would be hard pressed to argue for mercy for such a monster. I think he DESERVES a death that is BOTH cruel & unusual! How could anybody hurt such a beautiful child? :-(. Better yet turn him loose in general population and let EVERYBODY know what he did.

    • 1 year ago
  • bailey78
  • versasrev
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