Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Abelina Zalazar and Jorge L. Vilchiz Charged

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Abelina Zalazar, 25, is accused of forcing her son, Uriel Zalazar, to run around their apartment and then stand in a cold shower Saturday morning as punishment for hitting his younger brother, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday by Kenosha County Deputy District Attorney Michael D. Graveley.

Taking a cold shower immediately after vigorous exercise induced heart failure in Uriel, who was found unconscious in the bathtub by his mother and died of hypothermia, according to the complaint.

...Abelina Zalazar was charged with first-degree reckless homicide and physical abuse of a child. Vilchiz, 33, who lived with Zalazar and told police that he had seen Zalazar abuse Uriel in the past, was charged with failure to act to prevent bodily harm to a child. Both were being held on $100,000 cash bail.

This story makes me sick.

Zalazar's sister-in-law Sandie King said that Zalazar "would never do anything bad to her children."

What she allegedly did to her eight-year-old son is as bad as it gets.

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