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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMother Accused of Murdering 4-Year-Old Son Who “Walks and Talks” Gay
By J. Bryan LowderOutrage is growing today as news spreads of a truly horrific child-abuse case in Oregon: Jessica Durto, a mother of four, is standing trial in Portland facing charges of murder, murder by abuse, and second-degree assault in the 2012 death of her 4-year-old son, Zachary. According to reports, the boy died from blunt-force trauma to his abdomen causing intestinal punctures that went untreated for two days; Durto is accused of kicking her child in the stomach as what turned out to be the end of a pattern of abuse delivered, at least in part, because she believed Zachary to be gay.
The gay correction narrative emerged Wednesday when prosecutors won approval from Judge Don Letourneau to admit as evidence a Facebook message from Durto to her boyfriend Brian Canady, who has also pleaded guilty to manslaughter and assault charges relating to Zacharys death. OregonLIves Emily E. Smith has the details:
In the message, Dutro told her boyfriend that Zachary was facing the wall because he had made her mad.
Her son was going to be gay, she wrote, using a slur. He walks and talks like it. Ugh. Canady would have to work on Zachary, she wrote.
Durto is also alleged to have administered lickins to her other children regularly, and, as Smith reports, she was previously convicted of assaulting her mothers foster son in Hawaii, where a judge ordered her to take parenting and anger management classes. In a chilling detail, Smith notes that, on the day Zacharys life support was terminated, Durto is said to have conducted computer searches for the terms anger management and parenting classes. Would that she had managed such feats of self-reflection before allegedly working her child out of existence.
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Mother Accused of Murdering 4-Year-Old Son Who “Walks and Talks” Gay (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2014
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Stargazer99
(2,538 posts)1. Things like this make me despise fundamentalist religion
reminds me of the damn religious days of yester year when disagreeing with the dominate religion exposed you to death
Indydem
(2,642 posts)3. What does religion have to do with this?
There is no evidence anywhere that this woman's hatred of homosexuals had ANYTHING to do with her being religious. She was simply a bigot. These things are not always one in the same.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)4. American culture is consists of largely Protestant norms...
...on of which is fear of homosexuality.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)2. "Woman Murders Own Son for No Reason." nt