Angelo Mendoza Jr., 4, Tells Officers, ‘My Daddy Ate My Eyes Out’
May 16, 2009 by Jaded
Bakersfield, California–‘My daddy bit my eyes and hands. My daddy ate my eyes out.’ Those were the words uttered by 4-year-old Angelo Mendoza Jr. when officers found him, naked and bloody, on the floor in his father’s apartment. The child had numerous bite marks on his hands. And OMFG, his eyes–one of them was missing and one was badly damaged. Neighbors say the child’s father, Angelo Vidal Mendoza Sr., clad in boxers and a sweater, was acting a little ‘off’ on April 28. Ramon Rodriguez said the wheelchair bound Mendoza Sr. wheeled himself into his front yard and asked him to play with him and pet a dog. Rodriguez, probably more than a little freaked out, refused. Mendoza Sr. then got off his wheelchair, dragged himself into the back yard, and picked up an ax.
By the time Rodriguez made it to the back yard, Mendoza Sr. was butt naked and had chained himself to a tree. He took the ax and began hacking away at his leg. ‘He told me to look into the sun and pray with him. I was kinda scared for a minute,’ said Rodriguez. Somehow, Rodriguez managed to disarm Mendoza Sr., nearly getting bit in the process. After witnessing that horror, neighbors went to Mendoza’s apartment to check on little Angelo. Rodriguez was one of the first people to discover the bloodied child. (Good luck getting that image out of your head). Had he known what the man had done to little Angelo, ‘I would’ve just let him cut his leg off.’
Little Angelo’s mother, Desirae, had been to the apartment earlier to deliver a pizza. Her son was screaming, ‘Mommy, mommy, I want to go with you. I’m scared.’ Desirae thought to herself, ‘Should I take him or leave him?’ She left him there…thinking he was safe with his father. She. Left. Him. There.
Let’s have a look at Mendoza Sr.’s priors…he has at least 22 prior criminal court cases, including a no contest plea in April 2006 on misdemeanor willful cruelty to a child, for which he served probation. And yet, he was granted full custody of little Angelo. Interesting.
Little Angelo is now blind. DoctorsDoctors reviews
report that the boy’s left eye and muscle were completely missing. His other eye was mutilated beyond repair. His mother stated that he is being cared for by her sister and is now doing fine.
Angelo Vidal Mendoza Sr., 34, is still recovering from his self-inflicted injuries and is listed in stable condition, unfortunately. It appears he was under the influence of a controlled substance *cough PCP cough* at the time. His bail has been set at $1 million and he’s facing charges of torture, aggravated mayhem, and cruelty to a child. I say, let him have a go with the ax again…maybe this time, he’ll do it right and aim a bit higher.
UPDATE 8-25-09
Angelo Vidal Mendoza will not stand trial.
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7:59 am on May 16th, 2009
”His mother stated that he is being cared for by her sister and is now doing fine.”
Uhm NO…. What part of being mauled and blinded by your father leaves you fine?!?
8:45 am on May 16th, 2009
This beautiful child was a gift.
I can think of no punishment bad enough for this so called father.
His egg donor was just as guilty for leaving him there.
9:07 am on May 16th, 2009
I think I am going to vomit.
9:23 am on May 16th, 2009
Ho. Lee. Shit. I don’t think there’s ever been a story that made tears swell up in my eyes as I was reading the first sentence. Until now.
Someone fucked up big time here. It seems both parents were unfit to have any type of custody of this child.
Ate his eyes out? The fucking horror. Excuse me, I’m going to go wash my brain out.
9:51 am on May 16th, 2009
OMG!!! WTF would possess you to eat your child’s eyes out?
4 years of sight, and now he can’t see anymore. and the last thing he saw was his father biting him and eating his eyes.
Damn…..
9:59 am on May 16th, 2009
She. Left. Him. There.
Enough said about mom…
May you heal little one and adapt the best you can
10:09 am on May 16th, 2009
There are no words.
10:33 am on May 16th, 2009
Just listening to that woman made me want to puke more. There is a damn good reason she didn’t have custody.
I hope the happy little boy that’s shown in the pictures finds his way to the surface again.
10:45 am on May 16th, 2009
I am speechless (for once). I agree with above comments..knowing you are blind for the rest of your life because your daddy ate your eyes and your mommy knew you were scared but left you there anyway does NOT make you “fine”.
11:05 am on May 16th, 2009
how did he end up with full custody with his criminal history? somebody fucked up on that one big time to bad he didn’t chop away at his femoral artery instead of his ankle this dude is fucked up big time.
11:52 am on May 16th, 2009
I served in the Marines. I was a drunken brawler for many years and still love a rugged game of ice hockey, as a player. Blood and gore do not disturb me very much. The reason I say this is because I want people to understand that I don’t get upset easily by the ugly things in life. This story made me weep. I probably could have shrugged it off as part of lifes mayhem, but that poor childs quote hit me so so hard. “Daddy ate my eyes out”. That will haunt me forever. We have to help this child.
12:28 pm on May 16th, 2009
He had full custody? He’s wheelchair-bound, has 22 priors, and probation for ‘cruelty to a child?’ His lawyer must have been Satan himself. And mom came by with a pizza, and left with her child pleading to come with.
WTF is the world coming to? This innocent kid is permanently scarred physically and mentally for life.
Thanks for the fucking Pizza, mom.
12:44 pm on May 16th, 2009
Once again a lot of people failed to protect an innocent child. Whoever granted this nutjob custody should have their eyes gouged out. His mother should be in jail right along with Angelo, Sr. When your child is screaming that they are scared, you do NOT ignore that.
12:58 pm on May 16th, 2009
Look at it this way. If the courts gave FULL custody over to this psycho, what in the hell is up with the mother? A woman can walk into a custody hearing with needles hanging out of her arms while sucking the dick of her lawyer, and her chances would still have been better than the father.
But this story is a kicker. Even for me. The thought of that little boy and what must have been going through his head while his dad did that is just…I dunno. It’s one of those stories that makes me want to take a few hours from the site and go play video games or something.
Not sure if there is any type of fund setup for the kid, but I’d be to wary to give to it unless I knew his relatives had absolutely no control over it.
1:01 pm on May 16th, 2009
I agree its pretty f’d up that this freak had full custody- makes me wonder wtf mom did to lose custody. Her attitude is also disturbing…saying that she couldnt imagine dear old daddy to do something like this cos hes such a great father…ummm ok.
I cant even imagine surviving such an attack. I dont know if I have enough faith to believe that praying would make this any better for him but I will try.
1:14 pm on May 16th, 2009
Wow. Poor little guy. I am so sad for him to have been born to those fucking idiots.
I was headed to Lake Buena Vista (near Kern) this weekend. It’s about an hour from Bakersfield. Who things I should swing by the jail and curb stomp the douche bag “father”??
1:31 pm on May 16th, 2009
April buy some big ass boots and stomp the shit out of both dad and mom.
Makes me soo mad I could really hurt dad.
What the hell is up with mom??
Poor little boy-he didn’t deserve those people for parents.
1:32 pm on May 16th, 2009
is there any way i can un-read this?
1:56 pm on May 16th, 2009
She is a CUNT, OMG she “regrets” it? Leaving her terrified 4 year old son with a crazed moron? Also, she didn’t have custody..that says PLENTY about HER.
2:34 pm on May 16th, 2009
The father has willful cruelty to a child in 2006 and yet he got full custody of his kid. What does that say about the mother?
That poor poor little boy. Some people really should not be allowed to breed
3:29 pm on May 16th, 2009
Let’s have a look at Mendoza Sr.’s priors…he has at least 22 prior criminal court cases, including a no contest plea in April 2006 on misdemeanor willful cruelty to a child, for which he served probation. And yet, he was granted full custody of little Angelo. Interesting.
I agree with the other posters — if he was granted full custody over mom, what does it say about her? Even the fact that she only gets to see her son twice a week now (is that all she’s allowed or is it all the time she alots to him?) and he’s living with a sister speaks volumes…
Maybe she didn’t want him. Maybe he cramped her style. The fact that she would drop off a pizza (then she could at least check off that she’s a good mom on her list of things to do), but didn’t take the child with her or stick around to at least evaluate the situation (what would be so wrong about staying and eating the pizza with him to see how things were going?) tells me that she had other plans and spending more time than just dropping off a pizza might mess up her schedule for the evening. Or worse yet, maybe dad was scaring her, too, and she decided she better get moving, but left the little boy anyway.
Poor baby. My heart aches for him — for what he’s been through and for the challenges he will face for the rest of his life.
4:26 pm on May 16th, 2009
Let’s hope little Angelo’s aunt is a good person, and not fucked up like her sister Desirae. I would have felt better reading that Angelo was taken in by a loving couple experienced in nurturing and raising emotionally and/or physically traumatized children.
4:34 pm on May 16th, 2009
If we don’t start pulling the stink weeds out of the National Garden, the odds of survival for anyone will be a crap-shoot! Firing Squad to child abusers and molesters… damn it!!
5:22 pm on May 16th, 2009
To check out Mendoza’s criminal history, go here. His full name is Angelo Vidal Mendoza Sr. and his birth year is 1974.
5:33 pm on May 16th, 2009
I think I’ve heard about the worst on here, and then I hear something like this. Damn.
5:45 pm on May 16th, 2009
Agreed. I keep telling myself that shit just can’t get any more heinous than it already is…sure as shit, another horrifying story comes along.
5:46 pm on May 16th, 2009
Couldn’t agree more!
Isn’t that the damn truth
OMG, I am physically nauseous right now and in shock. What a fucking sick ass freak. I can’t believe this is all I can say bless this child’s heart. This man needs to be locked up with the key thrown away. This man should have never been with the child in the first place and the mom is know better.
5:52 pm on May 16th, 2009
oh god, the things people do to innocent little kids. wtf – did the dad actually eat one of his eyes (the one “missing”)?
It breaks your heart to look at the pictures of the kid smiling and in his little cap and gown. What an adorable kid. I can’t imagine what he went through and what he was thinking. Makes you wonder if there are some things/experiences that are truly “worse than death”.
6:48 pm on May 16th, 2009
Oh gosh. Had I been his neighbor…forget just letting him cut his leg off, I would’ve spared him the trouble and done it myself.
7:13 pm on May 16th, 2009
Holy FUCK. This is so horrifying…I don’t even know what else to say. That poor, poor little boy…
8:43 pm on May 16th, 2009
Stories don’t normally affect me personally.. I have read thousands of bad ones.
this one, man…. speechless, cancelling plans for tonite. I hate people all of a sudden.
9:38 pm on May 16th, 2009
http://www.bakersfield.com/news/local/x339729128/Bakersfield-dad-accused-of-biting-out-sons-eye
Quote from the article:
“The boy’s mother, Desirae Marie Bermudez, 23, was not present during the incident. There is a $15,000 warrant for her arrest for failing to complete a drug treatment program in late 2008, court documents say.
A search warrant report said the father “was displaying symptoms of being under the influence of PCP.”
Both he and Bermudez were charged with being under the influence of PCP in a 2006 criminal case. Both pleaded no contest to child endangerment charges in that case, records say.”
So she KNOWS dad’s on PCP – and she leaves the kid with him anyway. Why? Probably so she can go score some of her own. I hope they throw every charge at her they can come up with. Maybe make some up, too.
“The 12-year-old boy and another neighbor went to Mendoza’s apartment and discovered the child on the floor.”
That 12-year-old kid is gonna have hellish nightmares for the rest of his life.
I hope to god that CPS puts this kid into a good foster home with specialized medical treatment. He’s overdue for some love and attention.
9:48 pm on May 16th, 2009
This is, hands down, the most disturbing story I’ve ever read here. Goddamnit. I wish I had checked in tomorrow rather than tonight. Any extra hours I could have been blissfully unaware would have been a blessing.
Goddamnit.
10:04 pm on May 16th, 2009
Athena – I know what you mean. I’ve been desperately trying to invent brain bleach ever since reading this late last night.
10:07 pm on May 16th, 2009
It’s my understanding that he has been placed with Desirae’s sister.
10:23 pm on May 16th, 2009
“She said Friday that she was delivering pizza to the apartment when she heard her son screaming for help and decided to leave.
“My son was just crying, ‘Mommy, mommy, I want to go with you. I’m scared,‘” said the boy’s mother, calling herself Desirae but not disclosing her last name. “(I’m) just like ‘Should I take him or leave him?’”
I think the ultimate betrayal is when a mother knowingly leaves a child in a questionable situation and fails him….YOU FAIL. YOU ARE NO MOTHER.
I don’t even want to know why she didn’t have custody of Angelo. This poor child has been let down by the two people who should have protected him and cherished him. Let alone the horrific act by his father…. “eating his eyes out”, but the very thought he will always play over from that day…why did mama leave me? mama didn’t love me….I do not believe he will ever heal from this. Nightmares of a monster who is his father. How does a child get past that?
In my heart I feel such sadness for this child that was damaged in more ways I could imagine. I just don’t know how he can be “O.K.”…no, he will never be that.
What a sweet, lovely child you are…that photo haunts me as I can see what your lovely eyes used to look like.
I’ll remember you always Angelo. So sorry life worked out to be so unfair and cruel.
10:49 pm on May 16th, 2009
I can’t get this story out of my head. I just can’t stop thinking about this poor baby. There are a million things I want to say, but nothing is adequate. I just CANNOT comprehend how many people have failed this little guy during his short life. Why, why, WHY in the hell was he left with this asshole loser of a “father,” with the kind of criminal record he has? Was there no extended family worth two shits that could have helped him? So many questions, and no valid answers.
The people who saw this child are undoubtedly going to suffer from PTSD for years to come, possibly the rest of their lives. I can’t fucking imagine.
“My daddy ate my eyes out.”
OH MY GOD. This is making me feel like I’m going to have a panic attack, or at least just break down into a blubbering mess. How is he going to recover from this? Does he have a chance at all?
Now I’m crying again. This is probably the most horrifying story I’ve read on this site, and I’ve seen a lot here. This is just so profoundly fucking disturbing…it’s tearing my heart out.
10:49 pm on May 16th, 2009
I’m sincerely hoping that’s temporary. Any access Desirae gets to that kid is too much. She failed him in the worst possible way. He needs a fresh start with a new family.
And if Desirae’s sister is so great, where the f was she when Desirae and Angelo both got slapped with child endangerment or whatever it was in 2006? I doubt very seriously she really wants to spend the rest of her life taking care of her drug-addict sister’s blind kid. I don’t know any more about them than what I’ve read in the news reports, but I get the distinct feeling the apples aren’t falling too far from the asshole tree in that family.
11:17 pm on May 16th, 2009
How in Christ’s name did this guy have custody of this kid? I just did a little research on the Kern Co CA Superior Court Criminal Case History Search, and here’s what I came up with.
http://www.co.kern.ca.us/courts/crimcal/crim_index_def.asp
Desirae Bermudez:
1/11/2006 – Under influence of controlled substance (charges of possession of controlled substance and willful cruelty to child appear to have been dismissed)
12/04/07 – Under influence of controlled substance
That’s it.
Now here’s a SMALL SAMPLE of dad’s criminal history:
Angelo Mendoza (YOB: 1974)
11/25/1997 – Assault w/deadly weapon; burglary; mayhem; battery w/serious bodily injury
8/16/2003 – possession of firearm by felon; poss. controlled substance paraphenalia
4/9/2004 – attempt. burg. of a vehicle; under influence of controlled substance
1/11/2006 – pled no contest to willful cruelty to a child; charges of possession / under influence of controlled substance were apparently dismissed
Did Desirae terminate her parental rights? I have a hard time imagining a scenario in which a judge looks at her record AND his record and goes – ok, Dad, YOU take the kid.
11:26 pm on May 16th, 2009
worst story ever. I can’t believe this. I don’t even know what to say, besides I think I hate everyone in the world now. And the world itself.
Why should either parent have gotten custody of him? I don’t understand why they would let either of them watch this child. God, he would have been a billion times better being adopted. Staying with biological family clearly isn’t always the best thing.
GAW I duno, vomit, I can’t deal with this. Why would anyone do PCP? It sounds like the scariest drug ever.
7:39 am on May 17th, 2009
Sick Fuck
1:18 pm on May 17th, 2009
This story has left me totally speechless… my heart is breaking for that poor little boy who would have had a better chance of survival had he been left with a pack of wild dogs. How selfish and unloving his so-called mother was for not having the heart or the guts to remove her child from fear and danger he was clearly in with his father. Damn everyone who failed this innocent child… Damn the judge and all those who let this happen! What kind of f..ked-up nation are we if our laws don’t protect the innocent they claim to protect. I’m so furious I’m shaking in anger!
3:24 pm on May 17th, 2009
Dear God, please give this child the peace he will need to embrace life’s journey. Please fill him with love, joy and understanding. Allow him the ability to move forward in his life without the fear of ever being hurt or mutilated again. Please give him the sight through you as it has been taken away by a selfish cruel and sick person. And Lord, please give him the ability to be a forgiving person as he grows into a man, because in his situation… I would find it most difficult to be. Most of all God, please keep him safe, and help guide him on a loving path to you. Amen
**** All I can do is say a prayer. This is horrific!*******
5:03 pm on May 17th, 2009
This is horrible, and makes me even more convinced in my opinion that some people need a license to breed. This poor little guy was doomed from the beginning with these fucktards for parents. I hope the system does the right thing and places him someplace SAFE.
11:58 pm on May 17th, 2009
After some careful thought, I believe that curb stomping is too good for wither of them. I felt that it was more economical and appropriate to buy an ice pick and take out both sets of eyes (after they come down from any drugs they may be on). After that I think we should take his axe and finish the job he started on his leg and leave him legless on the ground and let him bleed out.
10:45 am on May 18th, 2009
Fuck child services and judges
some child service administrators and judges are worse than criminals, they create criminals and feed them victims
11:25 am on May 18th, 2009
Agreed! Amen.
12:00 pm on May 18th, 2009
OMG what a sad story. That poor child.
Mom you dropped the ball big time. This child was crying for your help and you left him there.
Dad…I hope you rot in prison your a sick animal and should be treated like one.
1:41 pm on May 18th, 2009
The fact that she just blithely admits this without even thinking about how it makes her just as much a monster as the fucktard who hurt this child convinces me that she should never, EVER, be allowed any contact with this child again. Or any other child for that matter.
I don’t know what kind of person her sister is, but I can’t help but feel this child might be much better off taken completely out of that entire situation and placed with people who will love and cherish him, and who are prepared to deal with the challenges he now faces in life. Maybe the aunt is that person though….we can only hope.
6:17 pm on May 18th, 2009
Athena, I know how you feel.
I have been haunted all damn day by the visuals that have come to my head. This poor, poor child is going to be forever in my mind.
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