Judge, family in tears as a father receives successive sentences in the death of the 12-year-old boy

Ogden, Utah (KSL.com)-a judge broke out in tears on Tuesday when he read a report on the death of Gavin Peterson, a 12-year-old boy who died after years of abuse and malnutrition.

At the same time, teachers, parents and family members of the West Haven Boy also shed tears in the otherwise quiet courtroom.

Shane Jesse Peterson, 47, will spend at least eight years and to life in prison after he has guilty to cause his son's death. The second district judge Camille Neider said that it was “meaningful” that she was more emotional than him.

“Father … You no longer deserve this title,” said the judge during a hearing on Tuesday afternoon.

Neider ordered Peterson, five years in the child abuse murder prison, a crime to live in the first degree. Three term of 1 to 15 years for severe child abuse, a second degree crime; And a term of zero to 5 years for having a child, a third degree crime.

On July 9, 2024, the officials replied to a call who said that Gavin Peterson had fallen into the tub and had not reacted, but when the officials found him, he was cold, according to a document that was submitted before the conviction of prosecutors. First aiders were able to get a weak pulse and stormed the boy to the hospital, but he died of what a doctor referred to as “complete organ failure”.

Neider ordered the punishments to be carried out one after the other, with the public prosecutor's office submitting an application. Peterson agreed to recommend consecutive punishments as part of his plea deal, including prosecutors who did not change his indictment against murder.

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The prosecutors argued that Peterson's actions had not only affected Gavin, but also two other siblings who deal with emotional trauma.

“He was the man who should maintain, protect, teach and love these victims. Instead, he ignored,” punished “, treated her with complete contempt and disregard for her humanity and” taught her “that the parents hurt and leave their children,” says the submission.

Two of the accusations for severe child abuse, to which Peterson admitted, related to the abuse of Gavin, while the third was related to the abuse of Gavin's older sister who lived with her biological mother at the age of 14.

In monitored prison calls after Peterson's guilty plea, he said that according to prosecutors, he had “pushed out a tear for the judge”.

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The prosecutors said there were 21 minutes between Peterson, his son, and when 911 was called. During this time he had a call with his wife – which lasted 11 minutes – and returned home, where a castle on Gavin's door was the other way around so that they were opened from the inside and cameras were removed.

Gavin's room had a painted plywood floor than a carpet, like other bedrooms in the house, with a small box of adhesive tape and areas of the black vomit. The downloads of families and telephones of family members had photos of Gavin's stepbrother, but none of Gavin – “it was as if he were not in the house,” said Letitia Toombs and Kevin McGaha, which was submitted by deputy lawyers.

“The only pictures or videos of Gavin were locked up in the cell and were in a dirty diaper that was covered with feces and wounds. The only text messages about Gavin were of how much they hated him, how terrible he was, and the torture that they liked to assert,” the document in which Peterson received the maximum punishment.

The court document says that these texts never mention Gavin's name instead of derogatory terms.

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Peterson's wife Nichole Lea Scott and his adult son Tyler Shane Peterson also guilty of their role in Gavin's death. Scott is to be convicted on May 12th. Tyler Peterson owed himself guilty with a mental illness and planned a review of the treatment on May 22nd.

Before his conviction, Shane Peterson's stepson and daughter -in -law submitted letters in which he represented the uncharacteristics.

“He is someone who is always the extra mile (regardless of whether) you family, a friend, a colleague or a completely stranger,” said Dolan Rivota and asked the judge and the probation committee to take into account the entire history of Shane Peterson.

Several people have also submitted victims -mpact declarations that the judge was able to check, but they are not available to the public.