Father in stomping death said he had to 'get the demons out' of boy

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Source: Chronicle

(06-16) 17:27 PDT TURLOCK (STANISLAUS COUNTY) -- A man who police say punched and kicked his 2-year-old son to death on a country road outside Turlock calmly told motorists who stopped at the scene that he had to "get the demons out" of the child, a witness said today.

The man, a 27-year-old Turlock resident, told people who tried to stop him that the boy was "trash," said Lisa Mota, 23.

The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department identified the man today as Sergio Casian Aguilar. A Modesto police officer shot him to death Saturday night as Aguilar beat and stomped the boy on a two-lane road 10 miles southwest of downtown Turlock, authorities said.

What prompted Aguilar to carry out the attack is still not known. Authorities do not know whether he was drunk or on drugs, and toxicology reports on him and his son will not be available for three to four weeks, said sheriff's spokesman Deputy Royjindar Singh.

Aguilar had no criminal history, Singh said. "From what we can tell, he's never been arrested," Singh said.

Mota said Aguilar didn't stop beating the boy, or even appear concerned, when the Modesto police officer arrived in a helicopter that touched down in a cow pasture and ordered him to stop at gunpoint. When Aguilar raised his middle finger and resumed kicking the boy, Officer Jerry Ramar killed him with a single shot to the forehead, authorities said.

"He wasn't acting like a crazy person, running around or screaming," Mota said. "He said, 'I've just got to get the demons out of him.' He was very calm.' "

The boy was beaten beyond recognition. His name has not yet been released. DNA tests will be conducted on him, Aguilar and the boy's mother to confirm their relationship, Singh said.

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This is one sick fuck.

[Liberal Veteran]

1. Actually, he was a sick fuck.

This sounds like someone who had a major psychotic break.

[Tab]

3. Probably

As a father myself, I can just assume he was off in another dimension. I can't imagine doing that to any child (much less my own). Two years? Poor child.

Well, it's bizarre, but I hope he gets help. It sounds like he'll need it. I suspect he'll be spending the rest of his life either in prison or a hospital, but to go that far you have to be pretty far out the window to begin with.

Just sad for everyone. And the respondents - my mother, now retired, was on the rescue squad for many years and had to go out in the middle of the night to scrape some teenager off the sidewalk. Imagine showing up for something like this beating. I don't think I could handle it myself.

[DBoon]

4. You don't need to concern yoursefl with the rest of his life

"A Modesto police officer shot him to death"

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

7. ummm...there will be no help for this one.

"Officer Jerry Ramar killed him with a single shot to the forehead"

poor baby, I hope he didn't suffer long. Sad times we live in.

[mdmc]

2. no criminal history

I wonder what his psych-social assessment looked like, if he ever got one.

[davidinalameda]

5. psychotic break indeed

sad

I can't imagine a parent doing this to a child no matter how crazy they may be

[jwirr]

6. There was a case in Montana around the 80s where a father and

mother beat their 5 year old to death to remove demons - that case was some extreme rw religion.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. This is very sad

And this sort of religious tinged ultra violent murder of innocents is not at all unusal in that particular part of California. Look it up. My family was victimized by such a crime just a few years ago. Always with the demons and the Bibles and one has to wonder. Just to make sure I am understood, I am not saying 'the religion is to blame' I am saying what I said. That area, Central Valley central has way too much of this sort of thing. And yes, I wonder why.

[junior college]

15. So not true

There is some sensational stuff that goes on around there like the Lacy Peterson murder, The Yosemite killing connection, Chandra Levy's hometown is there and they have an unusually high rate of meth usage in the south Modesto/Ceres area but as far as "religious tinged ultra violent murder of innocents" that is just not true. The place is pretty much just Anytown America.

[Trajan]

9. NOT acting like a crazy person ?

Um ..... beating a child to death is a better indication of 'crazy' than naked body painting or nude freeway dancing ....

Beating that child is the PRIME indicator ....

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

10. I would hope...

That in the days and weeks ahead, more is revealed about this guy, like his religious associations and whether he had a psychiatric history or history of substance abuse.

Come to think of it, it sounds like he could have been iced out of his gourd.

[2Design]

11. part of believing the devil makes people do things - reminds me of pat robertson's beliefs n/t

[superconnected]

12. Why was this removed from LBN?

Very sad for the child and father - who was obviously ill, and for the mother whom I'm guessing is still alive. May she find peace and comfort in this time of tragic loss.

[JVS]

13. It's a terrible tragedy for all involved.

[TaffyMoon]

14. I think that's called , "Old Time Religion"

Sick, sick, sick.