She will be a senior citizen when/if she gets out also she took a plea deal instead of trial where she probably would have gotten a life sentence also once you take a deal you get a lighter sentence in a court of law, trust 45years doing hard time is no picnic at all I just pray the remaining sister is surrounded by love & safety, rip Mercedes 🕊️🕊️
CPS has there old reliable fail proof answer “This one slipped through the cracks” but once these workers start being held accountable. Then they will STOP USING THIS FAIL PROOF EXCUSE! Until then nothing will ever change! CPS has no problem going after a low income family of color and make them jump through excessive hoops especially if drugs or alcohol is involved. Let’s not forget CPS IS monetarily driven either. There no different than GANG ORGANIZATION IMO!
I watch Judge Boyd all the time and this is the first time I've ever seen the entire courtroom. She is by far the best Judge Texas has. Judge Boyd is my favorite of all the judges we see on CZcams!!! 🙌
I too love Judge Boyd. I have never seen the whole courtroom either since I've only seen clips of cases. That poor little girl the "egg donor" should be put under the jail.
I am so sick of hearing about how being abused automatically gives an abuser a green light... I was somewhat abused as a child and that made me want to love my children so much more so that they never experienced what I did. The Defense keeps saying "we are not using this or that as an excuse" so what are you doing by bringing up those things? and just because someone decides to have sex at an early age and have children doesn't give them the right to abuse the children - many mothers were young when they had their children and raised them without abusing them... I HATE child abusers!
I’m sorry you were abused, it’s unbelievable how many parents are killing there own flesh and blood. I’m so tired of hearing these stories. Can you imagine how many kids we don’t hear about 😢
@@Mammaj1963 thank you, I really wasn’t looking for pity or anything; I just am so tired of excuses to abuse… but thank you so much. Also, you are right; many children who are abused are not discovered until it’s too late…
i agree big time!! my parents took discipline to levels where we had welts and bruises...and i promised myself I would NEVER do the same to my children. its inexcusable. its almost like also saying just cause i was cheated on, now i will be a cheater. no, it makes you all the more sympathetic to not cause someone else pain cause you know how bad you felt.
She's awesome ! I watch her regularly on her zoom stream on CZcams. As well as being a kick a** judge, she is also very fancy and has the most amazing handbags! 👜 😍 lol
Yeah why was the kids still in her presence? She should have been removed forever. Why the hell are they letting her keep her? She died February 7th. What the hell
@@golfgirl4211she was beaten to death. Not starved. The boyfriend was sadistically torturing her for 3 weeks before he killed her. Forced a sock soaked with urine into her mouth, dog feces.. sadistic. He ripped out 2 of her teeth n she had missing toe nails
she allowed her boyfriend to beat her daughter to brink of death. Simple starve doesn't touch her crimes. jose ruiz was a co-conspirator in daughters death. his trail is on ksats webpage
yoooo, so if you go back to the beginning she used to be slimmer, a stripper..she has been stuffing her face. im honestly surprised they feed them that much in prison to where they can engorge to the point of obesity from being slim to...well....that.
@@cygnevara8400prisoners don’t get fed well, commissary is all junk and processed food. If you’re poor (can’t afford commissary) or care about your health, you’d most likely would be fit/slim in prison. Why is that so hard for you to comprehend?
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 not a ×amn one. I'm talking 3 meals a day including snacks & probably binging🧐. But you starved your baby for a BUM NAME JOSE(in my Judge Vonda voice from another Mother ×urderer case) 💯!!!
CPS’ problem isn’t about being overwhelmed with cases. Their root problem is that they’re underwhelmed, zero motivation. Hiring standards need to change. They require speaking Spanish, but they don’t require much else in terms of aptitude towards this field’s needs, e.g., level-headed high achievers with investigative skills & w/ a educational background in abnormal psychology. Bunch of bureaucrats, pencil pushers won’t protect nor save victims.
What paycheck? That's the most retarded comment of the day....she or he could make more working at McDonald's! These ppl are basically volunteers! They work that job bc they want to help children, if they don't do it, no one would. The pay and the amount of funding they have to work with is laughable.
@@toanotherplace This one didn’t. It was followed by CPS from when this victim was an infant through when she was 4yo multiple times. CPS saw, knew, documented & did nothing for 4 years to save this child. Stop making excuses.
There were more things done to that innocent child than that. In addition to the other commenter, the little girl also had thumb tacks put in her feet, her feet stepped on by her enormous mother.
Exactly my thoughts on minute 13 I would have been, bailiff put her in cuffs too for failing to remove the child. I feel like they purposely leave the bad parents with kids and take kids away from good parents both promise more hours of work and funds from the government. SMH
DCF NEEDS to be held accountable as well, the ones who don't do their jobs correctly ,not only need firing but need jail time as well it's about culpability.A DCF worker has the power to visit unannounced, check the children for bruises & weight loss & be trained enough to spot if a child is terrified to speak in front of the parents the DCF goes and TELLS the parents what the kids said. Then what pisses us off more , is the dcf have power to stop these things from happening. In some states there are fosters who don't need the full training like EVERY FOSTER SHOULD GO THROUGH. & I'm sick of hearing dcfs excuses about oh we can't find the families. Well they are on welfare so you can find them. Idw hear excuses I'm done seeing dead kids every single time DCF doesn't do THEIR JOB. And having a report that a child is so under weight she's failure to thrive ? No she's being starved... There are thousands of people who DESPERATELY want children & cannot have them for w/e reasons. They try to become fosters and their lives are quite literally DISECTED by the powers that be . & Are STILL wanting to foster . Yet the DCF. Will put kids in homes that there is ABSOLUTE ABUSE & yet when said child is killed EVERYONE is like " oh no I had no idea ,we never saw that, cause DCF never did their jobs.
This worker is an idiot ,you've investigated 2018,2019,2021, multiple calls of abuse. Yet this lady didn't report to police this family was missing?????? Come on. Lady.
Defense attorney uttering his client had no idea the little girl was being neglected, and physically abused until she noticed the child was near death is ludicrous, wholly unbelievable. Mom is guilty without a reasonable doubt.
This is sentencing she was already found guilty by a jury from what I understand.The judge is to give her what her punishment was. Her defense attorney asking for some kind of probation. This is all so sad meaning the child should have been protected.
Yes she is my favorite. Did you watch Jose Ruis trial ? I'm looking foreward to the TX v Evonne Perez jury trial. Iw was scheduled for April but so far it hasn't started. It's funny to see the courtrm from a different angle.
Torture and death of an innocent child is not life without parole? Is that child going to see her 45th birthday? We need to overhaul the justice system and treat children with more respect.
I agree, but according to an online article in the San Antonio Express-News, the lighter 45-year sentence was a plea deal in exchange for testimony against the boyfriend, Jose Ruiz. Monsters who force a child to eat feces, drink urine and hold heavy objects for hours; place thumbtacks in the bottom of her little feet; and bind her to a pole, crucifix-style, for hours on end simply cannot be punished long enough or slow enough. Here in Texas, a murderer can get the death penalty for killing a child under the age of 15, but the boyfriend WAS NOT CHARGED WITH MURDER. Another San Antonio Express-News article states that a jury took only 45 minutes in March to find the boyfriend guilty of seven counts of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury and a single count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. NOT MURDER. It's INSANE!!!! The evidence was there: he recorded his torture of that baby with his cellphone and on Ring cameras in a closet where they put her for "timeouts." The mother, BTW, pleaded to a single count of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury. SMH.
I totally agree the children should have been taken away in 2018 if not before!!! Black white pink yellow whatever human is abusing children physically or emotionally need to account for this abuse before death happens !!!! They all from start to finish DID NOT DO THEIR JOB HOW DO THEY ALL SLEEP AT NIGHT 😢SHAME SHAME SHAME
She should never be able to enjoy life outside of prison for what she and her boyfriend did to her daughter .No child should have to endure this kind of abuse , ever !!
Why give birth to these babies and then abuse them??? These women have babies by the men they're with at that moment, and when the relationship is over the children become a burden.... smfh!
The "I was abused so that's all i know" should never be an excuse. I was extremely abused. Sexually, physically and emotionally since i can remember. Tossed in and out of foster care and group homes. Tourtured everywhere we went. Treated worse then people do animals. I am 36. I gave birth to 3 girls. 2 before i turned 20. I never ever ever hurt them. I tried my hardest to do what was best. I may have been a child having children but i did what i could to give them q better life then i did. Stop letting this be an excuse for monsters
Exactly! I had childhood abuse and had both of my girls by 20, my son at 24. All 3 are now self-sufficient, responsible adults. I was a single mom for 7 of the years they were growing up and never once introduced them to anyone I dated. They only met my hubby once I knew I would marry him. Other than my starter husband, who is their biological father, my hubby is the only father they've known.
She had a deal to plead guilty for testifying against her boyfriend who carried out the “punishments”. The judge gave her the maximum allowed by the plea deal thank goodness. The mother had the nerve to seek parole and suspended sentence!
This judge doesn’t play! She is straight business! I respect her for her no-nonsense approach to her job! Everyone who has did anything as heinous as this monster should have a judge just like her! Straight to the point. She doesn’t give time for the justice hand to fall in the wrong direction! After COVID I was able to watch different Judges in action and this judge won, hands down, for taking no bs, and not just this case here, but for EVERY case I’ve seen her handle. This judge here, and the female judge who handled the Bryce Rhodes case are the two best female judges, not sure about the men yet except Creighton Waters, oh yeah, he’s just a prosecutor 😂
Women are only half as likely to get charged; and if they do get a sentence it's on average only 65% the length of a man's prison sentence. Also, they're much less likely to receive DP than a man would for the exact same crime. (They also get let off for making false r@pe claims, even after wasting tons of LE resources and time.)
As a grandparent myself, NO WAY in hell would I stand up and beg for mercy for my daughter. I am sorry but right is right, and wrong is wrong. I love my grandchildren TOO much to not fight for custody or not check on those children after CPS first became involve. I am a helicopter grandmother, and I would have been hovering over this child’s mother, PERIOD!!!
My mom lives an hour away but she always pops up unexpected just to see how we are. All mothers should have caring mothers! Society is backwards right now
You are NOT wrong. Murder of a child under the age of 15 is a capital offense here in Texas -- so, yes, they should be on death row. HOWEVER, an article in the San Antonio Express-News states that a jury took only 45 minutes in March to find the boyfriend, Jose Ruiz, guilty of seven counts of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury and a single count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. NOT MURDER. It's INSANE!!!! The mother pleaded guilty to a single count of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury, in exchange for testimony against the boyfriend, so that she could avoid a possible life sentence. This all simply reeks!!!
Child Protective Services employees fail miserably at their jobs most of the time, in my opinion. If a child is abused once, they should be taken away from their parents.
@@jeanettesmith765 Didn't CPS state that she could not find the mother and children. They were not in school. She kept changing her phone number. CPS wanted to see relatives take in the kids. It seems like they were willing to. It still all comes down on Katrina and her choices. She bought this ticket to prison. So sad the little girl couldn't be saved. Sad, these guys weren't watching over her. 15 is too young to be having children. How old was the man? A lot of dads would have messed up a guy who got a younger daughter pregnant. Often it is self-hate that drives a mother to hurt her daughter. I wish these families would step up for their grandchildren.
Yeah it happens all the time. If you look up Nelson Ortiz from Grand Rapids, MI, he was also sentenced to life in prison for killing a child. The child’s mom was also in prison but for a couple of years. I knew her in school and it doesn’t surprise me unfortunately.
she wanted deferred sentence AND/OR community service...that just shows how much disregard she had for mercedes. she wanted to go back to being only jordans mom, which would be a reward for getting rid of her daughter. right call. 45 years is definately appropriate.
They actually applied for deferred adjudication? With a 45 year sentence plea bargain for torturing her child to death with her boyfriend? Unbelievable detachment for reality. CPS should also be charged for returning these children to this mother over and over again for seven different investigations. If they had acted appropriately, this child and sister would be alive.
I met the Judge for jury duty I had to go for. She was the nicest, most beautiful woman. I wish all Judges had her character... Plus she ask questions and gives fairness. Watching this now and I'm feeling bad about the abuse and may God be with 'Mercedes "No more pain!!! 😢
Nothing boils my blood more than an adult mistreating a child than the one who mistreats a child & them or their attorney saying it happened because they had been mistreated. That’s more reason NOT to do it-you know how it feels! That’s a coward’s excuse.
Only 45 years. I am sure as that little girl starved to death, it felt like 45 decades. This sentence is too light; she should be in for life, without the possibility of parole, period.
I was 15 when my daughter was born and 17 when my son was born.. they are both in their 50’s now, and I still try to feed them when they come over.. it’s pretty much the first thing I ask them.. are you hungry? Or, when have you eaten? If you’re not feeding your child, that baby will starve.. disgusting.. the death penalty is under utilized, imo
And is seems they are babies having babies if the living child has a 3rd great grandparent...I thought I was a lucky kid to have a great grandfather as a child.
@@user-jp9wd4dd8sThis sad excuse for a mother has a living great-great-great grandmother who must be at least 80-years old, and that alone represents six generations of teenage pregnancies. This family needs to break these horrible lifelong generational curses and traumas that plagued their families. Why would an 80+ year old grandmother(x3) be best suited to raise a seven/eight year old child? Where are ALL the other generations of mothers in this family? Sad AF. ☹️
As well as that monster of a "mother" and evil boyfriend and her extended family. It is beyond reprehensible what this poor child had to endure her short time on this earth😢😢😢😢
Happens quite often in family dynamics. Especially if one or both parents have narcissistic traits. The favourite 'golden child' will be the little mirror while the other child will be the family scapegoat -- the other 3 form a stronger bond by uniting against the scapegoat child.
I understand that people are entitled to representation, but my God ... the excuses this attorney is making for her is just ridiculous. She had options. Too bad the death penalty isn't on the table.
I am related to a few defense attornies and I can attest they HATE having to represent monsters but they have relief knowing that they represented her well so that she will be unable to appeal. That is the goal of a defense attorney defending a monster.
🛑 STOP abusing and killing children. All I heard are excuses why the precious baby is dead. From parents down to her lawyer. Judge Boyd saw right through the bologna. 45 yrs doesn’t seem long enough for murder. Thank Judge for not letting her off on probation.
Another sad case where child protective services was inept.Multiple reports that children being beaten and abused, not following safety plan and no consequences. Why Why Why not pull children from the home and send them for evaluations. And family concerned over behavior and don’t protect child .sickening!
I can’t stop laughing at the fact that she thought if she threw everything on Jose that the was gonna get off easy and not get any time. I watched Jose’s whole trial and the fact that she threw everything on him was ridiculous she was with him for “3 weeks” but yet she had CPS cases of abuse and neglect before she even meet him shows everything. Shows that she wasn’t a good mother and even more horrible for bringing in a man that did nothing but make it worse and doing what she was doing to Mercedes. So sad that little girl didn’t not deserve this hearing her voice crying in Jose’s trial literally took me I don’t understand how parents can do this to sweet innocent children and to her poor sister that saw everything and Katrina still denied it and said she was lying when Jordan saw everything she was there. May that angel rest in peace! 😞💖
Yes! I watch a lot of these cases so sometimes I feel like I’m getting desensitized but when I heard the clip of her crying and blaming herself! I broke down!
@@lesare6509 He got life in prison as he deserves and I feel like she should have got the same because yes Jose abused her but so did her mother and she finished it, Jordan admits to seeing her mother shove a spoon down Mercedes throat and she falls back and a little after she passed away but since the mother took the plea to agree that she did “discipline her” she got 45. And it’s already been a month since his they have it on this channel.
I changed my life around at age 18 when I got pregnant with my first daughter ain’t no excuse. I didn’t grow up in the best of homes and I had a brother who was murdered when I was 14 turning 15 and dealt with a lot. Regardless of my past and what I’ve been through it made me grow and be the best mom I am today. I love my 3 kids the same and treat them all the same and my 3 step kids as well. Ain’t no one special they all get treated equally.
Nothing wrong with having a kid at 18. (It's only in Western countries where they steer girls into careers until their fertility window expires -- it's a trick to lower the birth rate.)
Only show Mercy to the Memory of Mercedes! Let there be Total Justice for Mercedes! These Monsters Destroyed this Beautiful Child, they need a Life sentence period!💜💜💜 🙏🙏🙏
IV been using those powerful words for years saying how many babies do these evil governments allow to be aborted I call abortion murder how many of those babies would have been doctors or many other skills so many could have made great parents no matter what they could have been they all had a beating heart
That's not just any judge, that's Judge Stephanie Boyd of San Antonio, Texas, Bexar County, and she tolerates no foolishness. Smart as a whip and a human lie detector. God help you if she catches you lying in her Court.
❤ And for all that she is i absolutely love her. She takes no crap or excuses. Another thing is she is always in control of her court room. I hate seeing judges letting ppl run the court while being disrespectful. Im so happy they picked the right judge for this criminal who killed this child. Wait til her final judgment day when its time to meet her maker and is asked why would she ever do something like this to a soul so precious and innocent , free from sin. Thats what gets me everytime. These children are all pure and clean as the driven snow . Not one stain tainted on their precious souls yet they are the ones who get the worst from this world
I also love that the judge asked the worker these very questions that we are all Wonder....so you didn't call the police, you didn't notify law enforcement when the children couldn't be located??? She's getting in her mind.....
Judge Boyd was a prosecutor for CPS before she became a Judge. She holds their feet to the fire when they screw up! She has her own YT channel and is one of my favorite judges to watch 💜💜💜
I was abused through all my younger years. Things you could not even imagine. Then ended up in an equally abusive marriage. Held at gunpoint with a baby in my lap. Guess what? I got my girls safe. (18 months apart) I was also a young mom. we lived in a tiny townhouse and shared a room with my daughter to work and put myself through medical school. (Took me 10 years). I had plenty of PTSD and Anxiety through the roof!!! All from someone who was forced to drop out of high school in 11th grade to make money that my abusive mother took from me! Your excuses mean nothing to me. 😢
Laws need to be changed holding all those who have knowledge of abuse accountable for not standing up and reporting it…cps should do jail time also…maybe then more children will be saved…
You have to be evil to torture and abuse a 3 foot 7 ish child who's like 40lbs... that's the average height and weight of a 5 year old. And to top it off that's her own child... Purely evil.
45 years for torturing a 5 year old to death is NOT justice! She should've either gotten the death penalty or LIFE without the possibility of parole. I live in West Michigan and a mother and her 20 year old son were recently sentenced for the death of her 15 year old autistic son. The mother would instruct the 20 year old son to carry out what she called "punishments" throughout the day while she was at work and some of these so called punishments included- forcing him to eat bread soaked in hot sauce made from two of the hottest peppers in the world, sitting in ice baths for an extended period of time, doing "wall sits" for hours at a time with no clothes on, in a cold garage, forcing him to throw up by sticking a toothbrush down his throat if he was caught "sneaking food" and the list goes on and on. He was forced to sleep chained up in a closet on a tarp with motion detectors and cameras on him at all times and there were also cameras throughout the whole house and locks on the refrigerator and pantry doors. Fast forward to the day his poor little body just couldn't take any more abuse, he was forced to sit in an ice bath for 9 hours the day he died and while he was dying the momster was heard on camera calling him a dummy and telling him he didn't need his mouth open to breathe. The cause of death was starvation and hypothermia. He was 15 years old and weighed 69 pounds when he died. There were literally thousands of text msgs between the mom and 20 year old over a 6 month period. The mom was sentenced to LIFE without parole for open murder and 50-100 years for 1st degree child abuse. She has to serve the 50 years before her LIFE sentence even begins, so she'll most likely die of old age before her life sentence even begins! The son was convicted of 1st degree child abuse and was sentenced to 30-100 years! Mother-count 1-50-100 years Count 2-LIFE Son-30-100 years Now, that's what you call JUSTICE! If you're interested in learning more about the case, their names are Shanda Vander Ark and Paul Ferguson, from Norton Shores, Michigan CZcams creators 'Zav Girl' and AG Tactical, both have extended bonus coverage on their channels that includes, jail phone calls, all of the text messages, and much more.
Compared to other states Michigan does seem to have tough sentences for child murderers. If this was in Michigan she would have gotten a life sentence along with the boyfriend
This is one of the most horrific cases I ever heard. I have so much anger and disgust for this evil woman, it makes me physically sick. 45 years is one hell of a deal, that she doesn’t deserve 😡🤬🤬😡🤬 I hope and pray Mercedes is able to rest in peace🥺🙏🙏❤️💜
Many years ago, I noticed there was something not right with me because my child did something that infuriated me and I caught myself wanting to hit him hard. Instead,I went to the bathroom and I started crying because that wasn’t me. I would never hurt my baby. I called my husband at work and told him something was wrong. We went to the doctor. I was suffering from postpartum depression and didn’t know, but I thank God that I noticed something wasn’t right, the doctor immediately diagnosed me with postpartum depression. got medication and everything was fine. my baby was 5yrs old. I think the Lord that I realize something was wrong and didn’t hurt my son. I would’ve never forgiven myself if I hurt my baby.🙏🏼
The grandmothers statement broke my heart. Being a grandmother myself, if one of my grandchildren said those things to me then ended up dying, I don't think I could ever forgive that mother.
😢😢😢😢 IT PROVES THE STATES DID NOTHING 😢😢😢 EVERTHING THEY COULD 😢😢😢 REALLY IF THEY HAD DONE ENOUGH THE CHILDREN WOULD BE SAFE....AND MERCEDES WOULD BE ALIVE 😢😢😢😢
Another powerful statement what the judge said when an animal is being mistreated abused we show more compassion for that animal but when a child or adult being abused and mistreated we do nothing or say anything we pretend we don't hear it something wrong here that our society prioritizes animals above children we forget that children are the future and we need them to care for us in our old age.
🙄😒 oh please! Humans shouldn't harm anything or anyone on this earth ! I highly doubt that this woman has a child to compare with dogs... No one shows more compassion to animals thats a huge lie especially in USA WHO PUT ANIMALS IN CAGES!
Absolutely useless CPS officer and she said she noticed the kid was starving well then put them in a foster foster care with trustful people not freaking weirdos what in the world this girl's useless
2016 the kids were removed from her custody and then given back to her. CPS worker said their were many different calls in 2018, 2019, and 2020 so it really boggles my mind how was she still able to keep her kids.
I so agree with the judge about how our country treats animals over humans. We see endless commercials and videos about animal adoption but rarely about the hundreds of thousands children in foster care 😢
Oh My God, This poor poor little girl. Im sick to my stomach, this little soul who did NOT ask to be this monsters child, was starving for love and being rejected by the one person in the world who should die for her. Then she was literally starving for food to live. im horrified. Headed to Texas to see my beautiful boy graduate college, then taking him to europe to celebrate him. Mercedes didnt even get beyond Kindergarten. I HATE this poor excuse for a human being. Rest in Peace precious angel, we love you. I would’ve been honored and blessed to have you as my little girl.
she always says "we" couldnt do anything and "we" didnt know better, but she was the case worker who saw mercedes alive last. if them go into a line of work to intervene and protect children, what keeps them from actually intervening??? its like they dont want to bother with the paperwork
They have failed so many children. Only since Gabriel Rodriguez case have we been open to how severe the neglect of cps really is. The whole system needs to be dismantled.
They only failed the girls. We see this time and time again, they are trained to look out for signs of abuse, but even though they had been investigating since 2018 the spotted the lack of thriving and physical abuse, but didn't follow up. Then in 21 physical abuse again, still the girls were left with their abusers. Disgusting, CPS need to be made answerable as do courts for allowing this behaviour to thrive, it happens to often. She thinks the girls are happy bonded sisters from pictures.... really ! The mother deserves everything she gets for the rest of her life, hopefully behind bars. Dammit she completed parenting classes, she got more support than her girls !
Did CPS actually do everything they were supposed to do to me it just doesn't sound like it and why wasn't the child checked for abuse if it was an abuse case I mean hello why wouldn't they be checked all over their body I don't understand CPS I mean they make a big deal about families that are not even doing anything to their children and then don't make a big deal to the ones that are killing their children anyways May the child rest in peace
Listen here! I have multiple sclerosis, I have ptsd & an anxiety disorder from a very traumatic childhood, and I was even kidnapped at 18 years old. At 21, I had 2 daughters, 11 months apart. My husband left right before the second was born, and my mum died a month later. Then, my second was born weeks later. So as i was having my second c-section, i was all alone, and my birth partner (mum) wasn't there. I had an acquaintance with me. My dad watched my first daughter, but he was grieving for his wife, so straight after, i was all alone with 2 little kids. I was all alone for the next 2-3 years. Even after, i had ZERO help from anyone. Had no family or close friends. My daughters are now 13 & 14, happy, healthy, thriving young girls. I never ever laid hands on them, let them go hungry or neglected them in any way! NO EXCUSES!
They have to start charging CPS employees when they allow this to happen
Definitely because they do more damage than they do at helping anyone it’s disgusting!!!!!
Right they can do more than they do 😢😮
I imagine they have bad days and don’t try at times. So they should change employments.
No excuse if they have bad days these kids are in their care
Exactly 6:21 she talking about all the problems of the mom BUT yeah she let the children with her🤦🏻♀️
She robbed that child of her whole life, and she only gets 45 years? What happened to life without parole for murder?
Knowing it was intentional
Who knows, she might not live that long in there
She will be a senior citizen when/if she gets out also she took a plea deal instead of trial where she probably would have gotten a life sentence also once you take a deal you get a lighter sentence in a court of law, trust 45years doing hard time is no picnic at all I just pray the remaining sister is surrounded by love & safety, rip Mercedes 🕊️🕊️
She had a plea bargain to testify against the boyfriend, it was the maximum for her plea bargain.
She took a plea deal
Cps needs to be held accountable but for some reason they never are!!! Stop sending these kids back to these monsters!!
Facts Dcf needs a separate Dcf to monitor them at this point
I have a feeling that DCF women is going to lose her job after this. Judge Boyd is not happy with DCF.
They are so focused on reunification and closing cases rather than focusing on the welfare of a child.
CPS has there old reliable fail proof answer “This one slipped through the cracks” but once these workers start being held accountable. Then they will STOP USING THIS FAIL PROOF EXCUSE! Until then nothing will ever change!
CPS has no problem going after a low income family of color and make them jump through excessive hoops especially if drugs or alcohol is involved.
Let’s not forget CPS IS monetarily driven either.
There no different than GANG ORGANIZATION IMO!
CPS are lazy as hell.
This judge is SO GOOD. She is locked in, pays attention, asks questions… we need more like her.
One of my favorite Jedges. She is down to earth, and gets right down on their level to obtain information and insight. She is excellent!
Judge Boyd is fantastic, Texas should be happy they have her.
She has her own CZcams channel where she streams her cases judge Boyd
I watch Judge Boyd all the time and this is the first time I've ever seen the entire courtroom. She is by far the best Judge Texas has. Judge Boyd is my favorite of all the judges we see on CZcams!!! 🙌
I too love Judge Boyd. I have never seen the whole courtroom either since I've only seen clips of cases. That poor little girl the "egg donor" should be put under the jail.
I am so sick of hearing about how being abused automatically gives an abuser a green light... I was somewhat abused as a child and that made me want to love my children so much more so that they never experienced what I did. The Defense keeps saying "we are not using this or that as an excuse" so what are you doing by bringing up those things? and just because someone decides to have sex at an early age and have children doesn't give them the right to abuse the children - many mothers were young when they had their children and raised them without abusing them... I HATE child abusers!
I’m sorry you were abused, it’s unbelievable how many parents are killing there own flesh and blood. I’m so tired of hearing these stories. Can you imagine how many kids we don’t hear about 😢
@@Mammaj1963 thank you, I really wasn’t looking for pity or anything; I just am so tired of excuses to abuse… but thank you so much. Also, you are right; many children who are abused are not discovered until it’s too late…
i agree big time!! my parents took discipline to levels where we had welts and bruises...and i promised myself I would NEVER do the same to my children. its inexcusable. its almost like also saying just cause i was cheated on, now i will be a cheater. no, it makes you all the more sympathetic to not cause someone else pain cause you know how bad you felt.
Amen!
Totally agree!!
Boy, that lady judge has REALLY got her stuff together.
A credit to her profession.
It's judge Boyd! She's got her own CZcams channel and she doesn't mess around.
She's awesome ! I watch her regularly on her zoom stream on CZcams. As well as being a kick a** judge, she is also very fancy and has the most amazing handbags! 👜 😍 lol
Judge Boyd is amazing…
Honorable Judge Boyd ,don't play!!!!
@@Jesusisthetruth2handbags and flowers 💐🌷
She starved a 5 year old to death. How could CPS not see that? She never fed her.
Oh, is that how she died? She was starved?
Yeah why was the kids still in her presence? She should have been removed forever. Why the hell are they letting her keep her? She died February 7th. What the hell
@@golfgirl4211she was beaten to death. Not starved. The boyfriend was sadistically torturing her for 3 weeks before he killed her. Forced a sock soaked with urine into her mouth, dog feces.. sadistic. He ripped out 2 of her teeth n she had missing toe nails
@divinerain9399 😢😢😢😢
she allowed her boyfriend to beat her daughter to brink of death. Simple starve doesn't touch her crimes. jose ruiz was a co-conspirator in daughters death. his trail is on ksats webpage
The judge made a great point about people calling for help quicker for animals than for human beings. What on earth has the world come to?
That’s a lie. People don’t give a d about animals. She’s pretty racist to btw
U totally agree. It is a shame. It should be the other way around
It's not the same you can't compare orange with apples !
@@barbrovaage7309well no ! humans shouldn't harm nothing who lives on earth!
@@barbrovaage7309No, it shouldn't. People should be quick to help them both. They're both voiceless and innocent
Mom didnt go without eating, though.
And supposedly she was only with this guy for 3 weeks?!? She's been abusing this child way before him, he just ramped it up.
@@theaprilnesscompton96863 weeks!??? Smh. Jesus! Those poor babies didn't stand a chance. RIP Mercedes.
yoooo, so if you go back to the beginning she used to be slimmer, a stripper..she has been stuffing her face. im honestly surprised they feed them that much in prison to where they can engorge to the point of obesity from being slim to...well....that.
@@cygnevara8400prisoners don’t get fed well, commissary is all junk and processed food. If you’re poor (can’t afford commissary) or care about your health, you’d most likely would be fit/slim in prison. Why is that so hard for you to comprehend?
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 not a ×amn one. I'm talking 3 meals a day including snacks & probably binging🧐. But you starved your baby for a BUM NAME JOSE(in my Judge Vonda voice from another Mother ×urderer case) 💯!!!
That CPS worker knew she was torturing the girl but she left her there. I do not know why they even bother. Just in it for the paycheck.
CPS’ problem isn’t about being overwhelmed with cases. Their root problem is that they’re underwhelmed, zero motivation. Hiring standards need to change. They require speaking Spanish, but they don’t require much else in terms of aptitude towards this field’s needs, e.g., level-headed high achievers with investigative skills & w/ a educational background in abnormal psychology. Bunch of bureaucrats, pencil pushers won’t protect nor save victims.
What paycheck? That's the most retarded comment of the day....she or he could make more working at McDonald's! These ppl are basically volunteers! They work that job bc they want to help children, if they don't do it, no one would. The pay and the amount of funding they have to work with is laughable.
not at all - they are overworked and underpaid - are you kidding me? The caseload is insane and some slip through the cracks unfortunately.
The system failed this baby's big time!!
@@toanotherplace This one didn’t. It was followed by CPS from when this victim was an infant through when she was 4yo multiple times. CPS saw, knew, documented & did nothing for 4 years to save this child. Stop making excuses.
Child starved ✅
Mom built like a rhino ✅
She wasn't starved to death, she was beaten to death. She was tortured, 2 teeth were ripped out, missing toe nails, bruises n swelling
Mommy Dearest of the Worst kind!!! 🤬
There were more things done to that innocent child than that. In addition to the other commenter, the little girl also had thumb tacks put in her feet, her feet stepped on by her enormous mother.
Best comment yet.
CPS should have removed the child on the 2nd visit. Abuse is abuse. Failure to thrive is from abuse!!!! This is unacceptable.
Workers can approve removals. Cps policy is public.
They should be held accountable as well. So many CPS workers just want to close the case.
Exactly my thoughts on minute 13 I would have been, bailiff put her in cuffs too for failing to remove the child. I feel like they purposely leave the bad parents with kids and take kids away from good parents both promise more hours of work and funds from the government. SMH
It's odd seeing Judge Boyds court room from this angle!lol
I thought the same thing!
I said the same thing. It appears much larger from the other angle.
Lol, lol....great minds we have 😉. Because I'm just watching and thinking the same petty thing 😂!!!
I thought that too. It’s rare to see a jury trial setting with this wonderful jusdge!
Same. She looks completely different from this angle.
I dont understand why children are left in these homes.
DCF NEEDS to be held accountable as well, the ones who don't do their jobs correctly ,not only need firing but need jail time as well it's about culpability.A DCF worker has the power to visit unannounced, check the children for bruises & weight loss & be trained enough to spot if a child is terrified to speak in front of the parents the DCF goes and TELLS the parents what the kids said. Then what pisses us off more , is the dcf have power to stop these things from happening. In some states there are fosters who don't need the full training like EVERY FOSTER SHOULD GO THROUGH. & I'm sick of hearing dcfs excuses about oh we can't find the families. Well they are on welfare so you can find them. Idw hear excuses I'm done seeing dead kids every single time DCF doesn't do THEIR JOB. And having a report that a child is so under weight she's failure to thrive ? No she's being starved... There are thousands of people who DESPERATELY want children & cannot have them for w/e reasons. They try to become fosters and their lives are quite literally DISECTED by the powers that be . & Are STILL wanting to foster . Yet the DCF. Will put kids in homes that there is ABSOLUTE ABUSE & yet when said child is killed EVERYONE is like " oh no I had no idea ,we never saw that, cause DCF never did their jobs.
This worker is an idiot ,you've investigated 2018,2019,2021, multiple calls of abuse. Yet this lady didn't report to police this family was missing?????? Come on. Lady.
Until we hold CPS, DCF accountable for their non actions. Our children will continue to die at the hands of these monsters.
They all failed Mercedes.
all the neighbors called the police consistently. the police never went into the apartment.
It's revolting that Mercedes grandfather and other relatives are advocating for *her killer* to receive mercy. 🤬
Appalling
Sickening!
She is a killer , she is a evil women . The family has to see that . Stop protecting the wrong people
There is never an excuse for hurting a child.
Defense attorney uttering his client had no idea the little girl was being neglected, and physically abused until she noticed the child was near death is ludicrous, wholly unbelievable. Mom is guilty without a reasonable doubt.
This is sentencing she was already found guilty by a jury from what I understand.The judge is to give her what her punishment was. Her defense attorney asking for some kind of probation. This is all so sad meaning the child should have been protected.
That defense attorney is a piece of crap.
That’s the job as a Defense Attorney.
@@doloresleyva8810I think she plead guilty prior to going to court. I’m pretty certain her defence attorney stated it in his closing statement.
Yeah her attorney was tryna get her probation and the state wasn't going for it.
I watched this live I watch this judge every day she’s awesome
The Honorable Judge Boyd is truly the best!
Yes she is my favorite. Did you watch Jose Ruis trial ? I'm looking foreward to the TX v Evonne Perez jury trial. Iw was scheduled for April but so far it hasn't started. It's funny to see the courtrm from a different angle.
She’s my favorite judge
@@loosie5224I heard her voice and said oh wait I’m gonna love this
IKR SHE'S no nonsense. Love this judge
Torture and death of an innocent child is not life without parole? Is that child going to see her 45th birthday? We need to overhaul the justice system and treat children with more respect.
Dig it! There are people who will be doing more time for fraud and drug possession..
I agree, but according to an online article in the San Antonio Express-News, the lighter 45-year sentence was a plea deal in exchange for testimony against the boyfriend, Jose Ruiz. Monsters who force a child to eat feces, drink urine and hold heavy objects for hours; place thumbtacks in the bottom of her little feet; and bind her to a pole, crucifix-style, for hours on end simply cannot be punished long enough or slow enough. Here in Texas, a murderer can get the death penalty for killing a child under the age of 15, but the boyfriend WAS NOT CHARGED WITH MURDER. Another San Antonio Express-News article states that a jury took only 45 minutes in March to find the boyfriend guilty of seven counts of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury and a single count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. NOT MURDER. It's INSANE!!!! The evidence was there: he recorded his torture of that baby with his cellphone and on Ring cameras in a closet where they put her for "timeouts." The mother, BTW, pleaded to a single count of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury. SMH.
Agreed! But hopefully she will not get out in time to get pregnant again
She took a deal! 🤬she should get life
Million times yes!!
Everyone who played a major role in that baby's life failed her! ALL THOSE EXCUSES NEEDS TO BE LOCKED UP WITH HER FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE!
THIS
I totally agree the children should have been taken away in 2018 if not before!!! Black white pink yellow whatever human is abusing children physically or emotionally need to account for this abuse before death happens !!!! They all from start to finish DID NOT DO THEIR JOB HOW DO THEY ALL SLEEP AT NIGHT 😢SHAME SHAME SHAME
@@bethammons1239?
Someone please tell me they will take care of her in prison, ugh!
She should never be able to enjoy life outside of prison for what she and her boyfriend did to her daughter .No child should have to endure this kind of abuse , ever !!
In Texas theyre near 85 precent to serve.. Texas never release early parolee...leave them like an ainmals
she the one who killed her daughter she shoved a spoon down her throat
@@marlons4122don’t offend the animals. They take better care of their own than us humans
Why give birth to these babies and then abuse them??? These women have babies by the men they're with at that moment, and when the relationship is over the children become a burden.... smfh!
Is the daddy going to be charged as well?
Why were the children left in her care? After 5 visits from DCFS! 😮
And with the same complaint of abuse and neglect
The "I was abused so that's all i know" should never be an excuse. I was extremely abused. Sexually, physically and emotionally since i can remember. Tossed in and out of foster care and group homes. Tourtured everywhere we went. Treated worse then people do animals. I am 36. I gave birth to 3 girls. 2 before i turned 20. I never ever ever hurt them. I tried my hardest to do what was best. I may have been a child having children but i did what i could to give them q better life then i did. Stop letting this be an excuse for monsters
Exactly! I had childhood abuse and had both of my girls by 20, my son at 24. All 3 are now self-sufficient, responsible adults. I was a single mom for 7 of the years they were growing up and never once introduced them to anyone I dated. They only met my hubby once I knew I would marry him. Other than my starter husband, who is their biological father, my hubby is the only father they've known.
I am tired of women getting lesser sentencing than men who would get life if a man did the same thing.
She had a deal to plead guilty for testifying against her boyfriend who carried out the “punishments”. The judge gave her the maximum allowed by the plea deal thank goodness. The mother had the nerve to seek parole and suspended sentence!
This judge doesn’t play! She is straight business! I respect her for her no-nonsense approach to her job! Everyone who has did anything as heinous as this monster should have a judge just like her! Straight to the point. She doesn’t give time for the justice hand to fall in the wrong direction! After COVID I was able to watch different Judges in action and this judge won, hands down, for taking no bs, and not just this case here, but for EVERY case I’ve seen her handle. This judge here, and the female judge who handled the Bryce Rhodes case are the two best female judges, not sure about the men yet except Creighton Waters, oh yeah, he’s just a prosecutor 😂
I'm a woman and I completely agree!
I am a feminist and I ABSOLUTELY agree.
Women are only half as likely to get charged; and if they do get a sentence it's on average only 65% the length of a man's prison sentence. Also, they're much less likely to receive DP than a man would for the exact same crime. (They also get let off for making false r@pe claims, even after wasting tons of LE resources and time.)
Had she been jailed when first determined she was abusing her children in the first place, the child would be alive. 😢😢😢😢😢😢
There we go again, blaming her past life on why she MURMURED her child. Society has to stop accepting this as an excuse.
???
murdered*
Exactly ! I so agree
The grandparents are just as sickening as the ones on trial.
They are perpetrators by their silence and lack of concern.
As a grandparent myself, NO WAY in hell would I stand up and beg for mercy for my daughter. I am sorry but right is right, and wrong is wrong. I love my grandchildren TOO much to not fight for custody or not check on those children after CPS first became involve. I am a helicopter grandmother, and I would have been hovering over this child’s mother, PERIOD!!!
Exactly
My mom lives an hour away but she always pops up unexpected just to see how we are. All mothers should have caring mothers! Society is backwards right now
He pissed me off!
I cannot comprehend our law. If someone murders someone like this...they should be on death row..Am I wrong?
Or at least locked up for life without paroll and throw away the key!
You are right Thanks
You are NOT wrong. Murder of a child under the age of 15 is a capital offense here in Texas -- so, yes, they should be on death row. HOWEVER, an article in the San Antonio Express-News states that a jury took only 45 minutes in March to find the boyfriend, Jose Ruiz, guilty of seven counts of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury and a single count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. NOT MURDER. It's INSANE!!!! The mother pleaded guilty to a single count of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury, in exchange for testimony against the boyfriend, so that she could avoid a possible life sentence. This all simply reeks!!!
Agreed!
I agree
There's no excuse for a mother to torture her children, I don't accept her being sorry because this happened only sorry because she got caught 🥴
Why weren't the kids removed?
The State does not care for kids. The State cares for funding. As long as the State gets funding, the children be damned
Child Protective Services employees fail miserably at their jobs most of the time, in my opinion. If a child is abused once, they should be taken away from their parents.
@@jeanettesmith765 Didn't CPS state that she could not find the mother and children. They were not in school. She kept changing her phone number. CPS wanted to see relatives take in the kids. It seems like they were willing to. It still all comes down on Katrina and her choices. She bought this ticket to prison. So sad the little girl couldn't be saved. Sad, these guys weren't watching over her. 15 is too young to be having children. How old was the man? A lot of dads would have messed up a guy who got a younger daughter pregnant.
Often it is self-hate that drives a mother to hurt her daughter. I wish these families would step up for their grandchildren.
@@jeanettesmith765and who is going to take care of all these children?
@@awkwardautisticwell there is some good foster parents out there. Not always once abusing kids. This worker didn't do s*** obviously
She didntvwant her dad to take care of the daughter cause she'd lose welfare benefits
How can a mother stand by and watch her child being abused? I couldn't stand by and watch a dog being abused without intervening.
Services failings AGAIN???
DISGRACEFUL 🙄🙄🙄
So useless. So she saw all these signs. This freaking CPS officer and then still kept the kids in her care idiot useless
They got taken away from her and was sent over 8 different times but yet she still got the kids and look what happened. The state failed her!
The state should also be held accountable for what happened to that baby
Yeah it happens all the time. If you look up Nelson Ortiz from Grand Rapids, MI, he was also sentenced to life in prison for killing a child. The child’s mom was also in prison but for a couple of years. I knew her in school and it doesn’t surprise me unfortunately.
The state failed the children NOT the monster! Let’s be clear.
And the fact she applied for probation is wild!
She's sitting there. With a fake sad face. On & now she's saying oh well I wasn't treated well. So this is. Why I killed my kid. ????
Ruiz was found guilty in March and was sentenced to life in prison. During Ruiz’s trial, Mendoza testified as a part of her plea deal.
she wanted deferred sentence AND/OR community service...that just shows how much disregard she had for mercedes. she wanted to go back to being only jordans mom, which would be a reward for getting rid of her daughter. right call. 45 years is definately appropriate.
@@michelej8571 How did she kill Mercedes?
@golfgirl4211 by starving her? You're not serious, right?
May the poor little girl rest in peace🥹
Childrens services is despicable!
They actually applied for deferred adjudication? With a 45 year sentence plea bargain for torturing her child to death with her boyfriend? Unbelievable detachment for reality. CPS should also be charged for returning these children to this mother over and over again for seven different investigations. If they had acted appropriately, this child and sister would be alive.
I met the Judge for jury duty I had to go for. She was the nicest, most beautiful woman. I wish all Judges had her character... Plus she ask questions and gives fairness. Watching this now and I'm feeling bad about the abuse and may God be with 'Mercedes "No more pain!!! 😢
Judge Boyd actually has her own YT channel --- she's one of my favorite judges to watch!
@@Shadingoftheheart really I need to find it, thanks,have a great week.
Nothing boils my blood more than an adult mistreating a child than the one who mistreats a child & them or their attorney saying it happened because they had been mistreated. That’s more reason NOT to do it-you know how it feels! That’s a coward’s excuse.
💯
*themselves, or the attorney.
I’m sorry.
Only 45 years. I am sure as that little girl starved to death, it felt like 45 decades. This sentence is too light; she should be in for life, without the possibility of parole, period.
And with out food too
Where were these relatives when this young girl was having children at 14 years old!!!!
Good point
I was 15 when my daughter was born and 17 when my son was born.. they are both in their 50’s now, and I still try to feed them when they come over.. it’s pretty much the first thing I ask them.. are you hungry? Or, when have you eaten? If you’re not feeding your child, that baby will starve.. disgusting.. the death penalty is under utilized, imo
And is seems they are babies having babies if the living child has a 3rd great grandparent...I thought I was a lucky kid to have a great grandfather as a child.
@@user-jp9wd4dd8s you were very lucky!!! I didn’t have that experience and I wish I did have a grandparent looking out for me!!!
@@user-jp9wd4dd8sThis sad excuse for a mother has a living great-great-great grandmother who must be at least 80-years old, and that alone represents six generations of teenage pregnancies. This family needs to break these horrible lifelong generational curses and traumas that plagued their families. Why would an 80+ year old grandmother(x3) be best suited to raise a seven/eight year old child? Where are ALL the other generations of mothers in this family?
Sad AF. ☹️
Thank you Judge Boyd!!
When it comes to children, there should not be a plea deal in situations like this. Disgusting.
This social worker just be held accountable and get some jail time! No excuse for her!!!
THE SYSTEM FAILED THIS POOR BABY GIRL 😢
As well as that monster of a "mother" and evil boyfriend and her extended family.
It is beyond reprehensible what this poor child had to endure her short time on this earth😢😢😢😢
U gotta know something’s really wrong with a MOTHER who likes on child more than the other! NOT normal whatsoever!
Happens quite often in family dynamics. Especially if one or both parents have narcissistic traits. The favourite 'golden child' will be the little mirror while the other child will be the family scapegoat -- the other 3 form a stronger bond by uniting against the scapegoat child.
I understand that people are entitled to representation, but my God ... the excuses this attorney is making for her is just ridiculous. She had options. Too bad the death penalty isn't on the table.
Shoe strings…..just saying
I am related to a few defense attornies and I can attest they HATE having to represent monsters but they have relief knowing that they represented her well so that she will be unable to appeal. That is the goal of a defense attorney defending a monster.
They gave her a plea deal to testify against her boyfriend.
🛑 STOP abusing and killing children. All I heard are excuses why the precious baby is dead. From parents down to her lawyer. Judge Boyd saw right through the bologna. 45 yrs doesn’t seem long enough for murder. Thank Judge for not letting her off on probation.
Another sad case where child protective services was inept.Multiple reports that children being beaten and abused, not following safety plan and no consequences. Why Why Why not pull children from the home and send them for evaluations. And family concerned over behavior and don’t protect child .sickening!
I can’t stop laughing at the fact that she thought if she threw everything on Jose that the was gonna get off easy and not get any time. I watched Jose’s whole trial and the fact that she threw everything on him was ridiculous she was with him for “3 weeks” but yet she had CPS cases of abuse and neglect before she even meet him shows everything. Shows that she wasn’t a good mother and even more horrible for bringing in a man that did nothing but make it worse and doing what she was doing to Mercedes. So sad that little girl didn’t not deserve this hearing her voice crying in Jose’s trial literally took me I don’t understand how parents can do this to sweet innocent children and to her poor sister that saw everything and Katrina still denied it and said she was lying when Jordan saw everything she was there. May that angel rest in peace! 😞💖
Yes! I watch a lot of these cases so sometimes I feel like I’m getting desensitized but when I heard the clip of her crying and blaming herself! I broke down!
Amen
@MMO_10 What did Jose get? When was his trial? Was it on this channel? This just came up on my CZcams stream.
@@lesare6509 He got life in prison as he deserves and I feel like she should have got the same because yes Jose abused her but so did her mother and she finished it, Jordan admits to seeing her mother shove a spoon down Mercedes throat and she falls back and a little after she passed away but since the mother took the plea to agree that she did “discipline her” she got 45. And it’s already been a month since his they have it on this channel.
@@MMO_10 thank you for your reply. I agree, I cannot fathom how evil some can be to their own children.
Ms. Torture ate EVERYONE"S food......GreedyB
She had her chance for rehab. She didn't take it, look for it. She let that poor child suffer in pain and agony.
The neighbor tried and tried to get cops to save that little girl. So sad. She did the right thing and it went nowhere.
The bloody system doesn't care,full of excuses 😤
Judge Boyd is an excellent judge.
see the only time she crying is finding out that her older daughter pretty much hates her and never wants to see her again
Not one tear.
I missed it because I was skipping alot of the talking 😊. So what's the time mark??? Thanks in advance!!!
@@babyofmyfamily 1:46:01 is where the victim impact statement is read to her.
Wow!!!😱😱😱😱
These people are monsters! How can you beat on a helpless child? Do you have no conscience?🤬
And with all her so called honesty - I can bet you that she did way more than she's telling .
Her surviving daughter said as much in her forensic interview.
@@blondesense1708can you link that please?
No words for you ...
You don't deserve the title .......Mom...Mother ... or Mommy
Or "human"
Is her lawyer suggesting because she didn't believe the abuse was life-threatening, it was acceptable?
Very Right
I changed my life around at age 18 when I got pregnant with my first daughter ain’t no excuse. I didn’t grow up in the best of homes and I had a brother who was murdered when I was 14 turning 15 and dealt with a lot. Regardless of my past and what I’ve been through it made me grow and be the best mom I am today. I love my 3 kids the same and treat them all the same and my 3 step kids as well. Ain’t no one special they all get treated equally.
God Bless You
Be proud of yourself! Your brother would be ❤
Nothing wrong with having a kid at 18. (It's only in Western countries where they steer girls into careers until their fertility window expires -- it's a trick to lower the birth rate.)
This broke my heart. That dear precious baby and her little sister.
This deplorable Monster was able to kill this poor child with the hands of DCF. Shame on all of you.
Only show Mercy to the Memory of Mercedes! Let there be Total Justice for Mercedes! These Monsters Destroyed this Beautiful Child, they need a Life sentence period!💜💜💜 🙏🙏🙏
Cps is never held acountable they should be at fault for not removing the child permanetly
Why do people like this have children? Give them away if you can’t properly take care of them I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND!!!!
You can blame there religion for that
Welfare for mother.
It's not about the child it's about the money that child will bring into the home!😡Sad!!
LOVED "she may have been the one to find the cure for cancer we'll never know." JUDGE, that's POWERFUL!!!!
and that didn’t make the mom cry.
😢 she could have been the one that broke her family’s circle of abuse.
IV been using those powerful words for years saying how many babies do these evil governments allow to be aborted I call abortion murder how many of those babies would have been doctors or many other skills so many could have made great parents no matter what they could have been they all had a beating heart
@@yolawells7015be quiet please it's not the same
That's not just any judge, that's Judge Stephanie Boyd of San Antonio, Texas, Bexar County, and she tolerates no foolishness. Smart as a whip and a human lie detector. God help you if she catches you lying in her Court.
Yes ma'am for real she will call you straight out for your lies. Doesn't play with anyone including the attorneys.
❤ And for all that she is i absolutely love her. She takes no crap or excuses. Another thing is she is always in control of her court room. I hate seeing judges letting ppl run the court while being disrespectful. Im so happy they picked the right judge for this criminal who killed this child. Wait til her final judgment day when its time to meet her maker and is asked why would she ever do something like this to a soul so precious and innocent , free from sin. Thats what gets me everytime. These children are all pure and clean as the driven snow . Not one stain tainted on their precious souls yet they are the ones who get the worst from this world
I also love that the judge asked the worker these very questions that we are all Wonder....so you didn't call the police, you didn't notify law enforcement when the children couldn't be located??? She's getting in her mind.....
Judge Boyd was a prosecutor for CPS before she became a Judge. She holds their feet to the fire when they screw up! She has her own YT channel and is one of my favorite judges to watch 💜💜💜
@@Shadingoftheheartgood to know. What's her name
@@brandiechancetristen1532 Judge Stephanie Boyd
18:07 Why didn’t CPS ever call the police? They failed this child!!!!
1:46:14 Her face scares me and I’m a 36 year old woman. I can’t imagine how her little girl felt while being so evil to her.
I was abused through all my younger years. Things you could not even imagine. Then ended up in an equally abusive marriage. Held at gunpoint with a baby in my lap. Guess what? I got my girls safe. (18 months apart) I was also a young mom. we lived in a tiny townhouse and shared a room with my daughter to work and put myself through medical school. (Took me 10 years). I had plenty of PTSD and Anxiety through the roof!!! All from someone who was forced to drop out of high school in 11th grade to make money that my abusive mother took from me! Your excuses mean nothing to me. 😢
Same here and I so agree !
The steel trap that is JUDGE BOYD.
Laws need to be changed holding all those who have knowledge of abuse accountable for not standing up and reporting it…cps should do jail time also…maybe then more children will be saved…
You have to be evil to torture and abuse a 3 foot 7 ish child who's like 40lbs... that's the average height and weight of a 5 year old. And to top it off that's her own child...
Purely evil.
45 years for torturing a 5 year old to death is NOT justice! She should've either gotten the death penalty or LIFE without the possibility of parole.
I live in West Michigan and a mother and her 20 year old son were recently sentenced for the death of her 15 year old autistic son. The mother would instruct the 20 year old son to carry out what she called "punishments" throughout the day while she was at work and some of these so called punishments included- forcing him to eat bread soaked in hot sauce made from two of the hottest peppers in the world, sitting in ice baths for an extended period of time, doing "wall sits" for hours at a time with no clothes on, in a cold garage, forcing him to throw up by sticking a toothbrush down his throat if he was caught "sneaking food" and the list goes on and on.
He was forced to sleep chained up in a closet on a tarp with motion detectors and cameras on him at all times and there were also cameras throughout the whole house and locks on the refrigerator and pantry doors. Fast forward to the day his poor little body just couldn't take any more abuse, he was forced to sit in an ice bath for 9 hours the day he died and while he was dying the momster was heard on camera calling him a dummy and telling him he didn't need his mouth open to breathe.
The cause of death was starvation and hypothermia. He was 15 years old and weighed 69 pounds when he died. There were literally thousands of text msgs between the mom and 20 year old over a 6 month period.
The mom was sentenced to LIFE without parole for open murder and 50-100 years for 1st degree child abuse. She has to serve the 50 years before her LIFE sentence even begins, so she'll most likely die of old age before her life sentence even begins! The son was convicted of 1st degree child abuse and was sentenced to 30-100 years!
Mother-count 1-50-100 years
Count 2-LIFE
Son-30-100 years
Now, that's what you call JUSTICE!
If you're interested in learning more about the case, their names are Shanda Vander Ark and Paul Ferguson, from Norton Shores, Michigan
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I saw that case on You Tube! It was heart breaking! 😢
Compared to other states Michigan does seem to have tough sentences for child murderers. If this was in Michigan she would have gotten a life sentence along with the boyfriend
Takoda Collins his torture vile father got 51 years I honestly thought it would be the chair 💺.
That poor child...his case broke my heart. There is TOO MUCH EVIL upon this earth😢😢😢😢
This is one of the most horrific cases I ever heard. I have so much anger and disgust for this evil woman, it makes me physically sick. 45 years is one hell of a deal, that she doesn’t deserve 😡🤬🤬😡🤬 I hope and pray Mercedes is able to rest in peace🥺🙏🙏❤️💜
That one b..h, threw a five year old in a closet. These judges and CPS workers,go home at night, and do not care..
Well hopefully she serves ALL 45 years of her sentence.
I was also a young mother and I never would have done anything like that. She's just as guilty as he is. 😢
Many years ago, I noticed there was something not right with me because my child did something that infuriated me and I caught myself wanting to hit him hard. Instead,I went to the bathroom and I started crying because that wasn’t me. I would never hurt my baby. I called my husband at work and told him something was wrong. We went to the doctor. I was suffering from postpartum depression and didn’t know, but I thank God that I noticed something wasn’t right, the doctor immediately diagnosed me with postpartum depression. got medication and everything was fine. my baby was 5yrs old. I think the Lord that I realize something was wrong and didn’t hurt my son. I would’ve never forgiven myself if I hurt my baby.🙏🏼
PPD 5 years after you gave life to that baby???🤔🤔🤔🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Why did you need to emphasize HARD? Seriously, no- clearly, you have further underlying issues. Sns
Maybe she had another baby??? Idk.
@@cantstanditanymore a new study had indicated it can last up to 7 years later
The grandmothers statement broke my heart. Being a grandmother myself, if one of my grandchildren said those things to me then ended up dying, I don't think I could ever forgive that mother.
U spelled monster wrong... Mother?? Where?
@@brandiechancetristen1532 Oh yes, excuse me... Monster. No mother there.
Only 45 years!?
Yes your ritht here l hope the baby rest in peçe l fell şad for him
She took a plea to avoid it. In exchange testify against the boyfriend.
Yes agree 👍 she should've gotten life without parole.
Did the boyfriend ever go on trial?
😢😢😢😢 IT PROVES THE STATES DID NOTHING 😢😢😢 EVERTHING THEY COULD 😢😢😢 REALLY IF THEY HAD DONE ENOUGH THE CHILDREN WOULD BE SAFE....AND MERCEDES WOULD BE ALIVE 😢😢😢😢
Glad it was judge Boyd who sentenced her. One of my favorite judges because she is so solid. This whole case is heartbreaking
Another powerful statement what the judge said when an animal is being mistreated abused we show more compassion for that animal but when a child or adult being abused and mistreated we do nothing or say anything we pretend we don't hear it something wrong here that our society prioritizes animals above children we forget that children are the future and we need them to care for us in our old age.
Well said and I agree with you
🙄😒 oh please! Humans shouldn't harm anything or anyone on this earth !
I highly doubt that this woman has a child to compare with dogs...
No one shows more compassion to animals thats a huge lie especially in USA WHO PUT ANIMALS IN CAGES!
Caro giudice ,l uno. Non esclude l altro ,, ok?????
Well the JUDGE IS WRONG!!!
So 3 calls in 2018,2019,2021. No one took them away?
Absolutely useless CPS officer and she said she noticed the kid was starving well then put them in a foster foster care with trustful people not freaking weirdos what in the world this girl's useless
2016 the kids were removed from her custody and then given back to her. CPS worker said their were many different calls in 2018, 2019, and 2020 so it really boggles my mind how was she still able to keep her kids.
I so agree with the judge about how our country treats animals over humans. We see endless commercials and videos about animal adoption but rarely about the hundreds of thousands children in foster care 😢
not correct, if people see a dog being abused, that abuser gets dealt with and calling police to.
Mafysa ,,,, perché non e' corretto difendere un cane ? Me lo spieghi? Certo tu non lo farai ,ma gente di buon cuore si,,,,
Why did those children live with that Demon! 😪Cps dropped the ball!
Just 45 years!!! That child doesn’t get to live life to the fullest! This woman should never see light again!
You went over there 8 times for a reason, so those were not happy
Oh My God, This poor poor little girl. Im sick to my stomach, this little soul who did NOT ask to be this monsters child, was starving for love and being rejected by the one person in the world who should die for her. Then she was literally starving for food to live. im horrified. Headed to Texas to see my beautiful boy graduate college, then taking him to europe to celebrate him. Mercedes didnt even get beyond Kindergarten. I HATE this poor excuse for a human being. Rest in Peace precious angel, we love you. I would’ve been honored and blessed to have you as my little girl.
How can a parent or anyone abuse a child I had 2 kids that were killed in a car wreck I would have DIED for my kids and I miss them everyday all day
So sorry to hear that. YOU are a real caring, loving Mom I bet. May your children rest in peace. So sad. 🙏
Omg. That’s devastating. My heart goes out to you❤
So sorry 😢
The CPS worker doesn’t even speak properly. She is sickening, trying to present that she did everything she could.
she always says "we" couldnt do anything and "we" didnt know better, but she was the case worker who saw mercedes alive last. if them go into a line of work to intervene and protect children, what keeps them from actually intervening??? its like they dont want to bother with the paperwork
Why were these children removed. Social service failed these kids as well as the mom and BF.
No, they failed the children
They have failed so many children. Only since Gabriel Rodriguez case have we been open to how severe the neglect of cps really is. The whole system needs to be dismantled.
They only failed the girls. We see this time and time again, they are trained to look out for signs of abuse, but even though they had been investigating since 2018 the spotted the lack of thriving and physical abuse, but didn't follow up. Then in 21 physical abuse again, still the girls were left with their abusers. Disgusting, CPS need to be made answerable as do courts for allowing this behaviour to thrive, it happens to often. She thinks the girls are happy bonded sisters from pictures.... really ! The mother deserves everything she gets for the rest of her life, hopefully behind bars. Dammit she completed parenting classes, she got more support than her girls !
The whole family should not have reproduced.
She shouldn't have been allowed to change the phone number where you can't reach her.
Did CPS actually do everything they were supposed to do to me it just doesn't sound like it and why wasn't the child checked for abuse if it was an abuse case I mean hello why wouldn't they be checked all over their body I don't understand CPS I mean they make a big deal about families that are not even doing anything to their children and then don't make a big deal to the ones that are killing their children anyways May the child rest in peace
@@theresarodrigues3125if the parents don't want to be found... it's pretty hard to do anything about it.
Rest in peace sweet Mercedes 😢😢
Judge Boyd! I love this judge, someone puts her cases up on their youtube channel and she is a great and fair judge.
I met her and she spoke to me! She was very decent and wish she could sit on Supreme court. It can happen.. Have great day..
How many cases does one Mother need to have with CPS before they take action?
Oh wow, I've never seen this angle in Judge Boyd's courtroom. Rip sweet angel baby ❤🙏🌹
Judge this country spend more money on pets than children 😢
Listen here! I have multiple sclerosis, I have ptsd & an anxiety disorder from a very traumatic childhood, and I was even kidnapped at 18 years old. At 21, I had 2 daughters, 11 months apart. My husband left right before the second was born, and my mum died a month later. Then, my second was born weeks later. So as i was having my second c-section, i was all alone, and my birth partner (mum) wasn't there. I had an acquaintance with me. My dad watched my first daughter, but he was grieving for his wife, so straight after, i was all alone with 2 little kids. I was all alone for the next 2-3 years. Even after, i had ZERO help from anyone. Had no family or close friends. My daughters are now 13 & 14, happy, healthy, thriving young girls. I never ever laid hands on them, let them go hungry or neglected them in any way! NO EXCUSES!