The aunt of the late toddler who was allegedly sexually abused and murdered by his cousin in San Jose despatched out a heartbreaking message mourning the kid.
Jessica Moreno, 2-year-old Jaxon’s aunt, despatched out the message shortly earlier than the kid died April 9.
“My nephew is on his option to heaven to be together with his mama. He formally has no mind exercise,” she wrote on Fb.
Moreno defined that his dying was the newest in a collection of tragedies she’s needed to face in latest occasions.
“During the last yr and a half I’ve now misplaced 4 of my instant relations. One thing has to offer for our household. I can’t go into what occurred as there’s a large investigation and we solely know minor particulars. Life has been so unfair to him for the reason that begin. Simply know we are going to get Justice ! we Love You Jax,” she added.
Jaxon’s now-18-year-old cousin allegedly left him within the “small, bruised and battered” state that police discovered him in on Easter Sunday this yr. He’s been charged with homicide and several other felonies, reminiscent of youngster assault inflicting dying and sexual assault.
Prosecutors need to attempt the 18-year-old, then 17, as an grownup.
“This was a 2-year-old youngster who was horribly abused and viciously murdered,” Santa Clara District Lawyer Jeff Rosen mentioned. “And we need to guarantee that the extent of accountability is the appropriate stage.”
Investigators say proof factors to the suspect sexually assaulting his cousin and bodily abusing him when he was positioned together with his household by the county in February. The foster mom, Bridget Michelle Martinez, had a previous conviction for felony youngster endangerment.
Moreno has mentioned publicly that she regrets not gaining full custody of her nephew, as she and her sister Riley Wallace, had been attempting to do. Wallace beforehand mentioned they plan to sue the Santa Clara County’s Division of Household and Youngsters’s Companies for putting the kid within the foster mom’s care.
“We had been shocked, distraught, and hopeless at the truth that CPS failed him and allowed this to occur. We’re heartbroken with out him and miss him each single day,” Wallace instructed The California Submit.
She’s hoping the system that allegedly doomed Jaxon is modified, and referred to as for the teenager to be served the dying penalty, even whether it is unlikely.
“We need to see change within the system and see CPS held accountable for not doing sufficient and doing correct background checks on households and doing their job correctly!” she mentioned.
“We wish [the teen] served the dying penalty, however that gained’t occur, I pray he will get life in jail as an grownup for what he made my nephew endure and undergo. I hope he’s struggling in jail, and I hope his mom serves time for abusing and neglecting Jaxon.”
The household not too long ago held a #JusticeforJaxon occasion and mourned the toddler. Moreno, and the household have been enraged by what the teenager allegedly did to her nephew.
“They need to convey again stoning and let the household deal with it,” she wrote on Fb.
