Authorities were grappling Monday to determine what drove a young father to fatally beat his 2-year-old son on a farm road outside Turlock before a police officer arrived and shot the man to death.
One motorist who tried but failed to wrestle Sergio Casian Aguilar, 27, away from the child said the assailant was forceful and hollow-eyed, muttering that there were "demons" in the boy, according to a local newspaper account.
At one point, witnesses saw Aguilar, who had no criminal record or history of mental illness, bash the toddler to the pavement like a doll, and then stomp on him, authorities said.
Demons. Yeah. Demons.
The sad truth is that is our man Aguilar was mentally deranged, there is every reason to believe that he truly thought his boy was possessed or the anti-christ.
ReplyDeleteNot to be heartless, but maybe if Aguilar had less faith in angels & demons, fewer would be consoling themselves with the notion that his boy is "in heaven."
Absolutely tragic.