Before Mercedes Losoya died, authorities said, her mother's boyfriend, Jose Angel Ruiz, forced her to eat feces and drink urine. It got worse.
The sadistic treatment of 5-year-old Mercedes Losoya ended with her being pronounced dead in a San Antonio hospital just over two years ago, authorities said. On Tuesday, a jury heard chilling details of her abuse in a video of her sister, then 6, as testimony began in the trial of Jose Angel Ruiz, 27, who had once been their mother’s boyfriend. “My sister throwed up all her food and didn’t come back to life,” Jordan Losoya told a ChildSafe interviewer days after Mercedes died.
” Jordan said her mother watched as Ruiz inserted the thumb tacks into her daughter’s feet. The child told the interviewer that in addition to spankings and “whippings” with the belt, her mother used a large blue chancla, or sandal, on the girls. A San Antonio police officer, a hospital charge nurse and two Child Protective Services case workers who investigated the death started the testimony.
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