Five-year-old Braeden is dead; Eduardo Zamora did not like poopy pants

**Dakota Valkyrie** · June 21st, 2009, 09:18 AM

Five-year-old Braeden's misdeed, it seems, was just that he defecated in his pants.

He ended up dead at the UC Davis Medical Center on Wednesday, severely bruised, with suspected internal injuries and sores on his face, according to court documents. Doctors found feces in his mouth.

On Thursday, Sacramento County sheriff's deputies arrested 31-year-old Eduardo Zamora Jr. in connection with the death of Braeden James Gardner, said Sgt. Tim Curran.

Zamora lived with Braeden and his 25-year-old mother, Amber Ingram, in a Rosemont duplex, according to Curran and court documents. He was booked into Sacramento County jail on suspicion of murder and assault resulting in the death of a child under age 8, booking records show. Jail staff said he could not be interviewed because he was on suicide watch.

Ingram is not a suspect in the case, Curran said, and the investigation is ongoing.
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Inside the apartment, child abuse Detective Tom Koontz found feces smeared on the wall of one room, on the bed in another and on a pair of boys underwear and a towel hanging in the bathroom, according to a request for an arrest warrant written by Koontz and filed in Sacramento Superior Court.

There also appeared to be feces on Zamora's back, the account said.
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Zamora admitted hitting the child Wednesday, and allowed that "he may have hit (Braeden) too hard because he has been frustrated with (him)," according to the warrant request.

The boy had been getting into trouble in the kitchen, including playing with knives, Koontz wrote, adding that "Zamora said he has also been defecating himself, and he's not responding to the discipline."

When asked about Braeden's severe bruising, Zamora attributed the marks to an earlier beating after the boy's misbehavior in the kitchen, the request states.

Zamora repeatedly asked the detective about Braeden's condition, Koontz wrote. When told of his death, "Zamora began to cry and say that he could not believe that he killed a little boy."

Before leaving the interview, Zamora wrote a two-page letter apologizing to Ingram, the warrant request states. That letter has been saved as evidence.

http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1959770.html

**myra manes** · June 21st, 2009, 11:01 AM

I don't even know what to say besides, fuck!

**Marv** · June 21st, 2009, 04:45 PM

The boy had been getting into trouble in the kitchen, including playing with knives

Poor kid was probably trying to find something to defend himself against what looks to be a BIG guy! A 5 yr old would not stand a chance against a grown man, or any adult for that matter.

And it sounds like the bastard made the child eat the faeces too, before battering him to death. Fucking cowardly POS, bullying a 5yr old kid.

When he sets eyes on bubba, he will doubtless crap is pants in fear. Then he will know how little Braeden felt whenever he saw him.

**TwinsPlus1** · June 21st, 2009, 06:25 PM

You would think that these fucktards would realize that hitting isn't "discipline" but in fact just a cowardly and underhanded way to vent your frustration on a child.

I know I said that I don't think spanking is abusive but if it were illegal then people wouldn't be able to escalate it to this level of murder.

Fuckers.

Poor little guy. :-(

**Silvahalo** · June 21st, 2009, 07:15 PM

A child at 5yr. who suddenly starts pooping his pants again, usually does so under a new stressor. Curious if the living arrangements was a new thing for Braeden, that would explain the stress and Braeden trying to cope with a new role model in his life. If there was a history of abuse by this man, Braeden would possibly be having problems with pooping, eating and sleeping. Or he could have suddenly developed a medical problem. I wonder how often the accidents were happening?....this is very sad, so tragic that a child would die over a poop accident.

That first assault on Braeden as the perp. said he beat him for getting into things in the kitchen, like knives, that's just like my 5 yr.old. When my son gets bored he looks and explores and always gets something inappropriate. Besides, boys are usually fascinated with things that are dangerous, like knives and scissors. Sounds like Braeden had the shit beat out of him because he was bored.

I hope you are sad and crying Mr. Zamora. You beat a child to death for being a kid. And the reason he pooped might well have been your fault too. Take care as you might face the very same fate in prison.

Rest in peace little Braedon James Gardner. Your mother will have to be extra vigilant in living her remaining days without you to do so without killing your murderer. Be at peace little one.....so sorry.

**Thinkgoat** · June 21st, 2009, 07:26 PM

You know, he's likely to find he has an inability to control his bowels after just a week or so in the slammer...for other reasons.

**Misskittychaos** · June 21st, 2009, 10:17 PM

Poor kid. Ugh and to not only die from the injuries this bastard inflicted bit to have poop in his mouth too...jesus.

**Jessiesgirl1108** · June 23rd, 2009, 09:50 AM

Picture of the abusive asshole!

In an interview with the detective, Zamora told Koontz that Braeden had awakened early after urinating in his bed. Zamora said he cleaned the bedding, fed the child a hot dog, then sat him down in front of a movie. Braeden was "on restriction," Zamora said, for defecating in his pants a previous time.

Twenty minutes later, Zamora checked on Braeden and found that he'd had an accident. Zamora cleaned up the mess, then spanked the boy, according to Koontz's recounting of the interview.

A half-hour later, Zamora noticed that Braeden's "eyes were flickering and he was not responsive," Koontz wrote. He shook Braeden, then carried the boy to the bathroom and cleaned off the feces "hoping (Braeden) would wake up."

Zamora admitted hitting the child Wednesday, and allowed that "he may have hit (Braeden) too hard because he has been frustrated with (him)," according to the warrant request.

The boy had been getting into trouble in the kitchen, including playing with knives, Koontz wrote, adding that "Zamora said he has also been defecating himself, and he's not responding to the discipline."

When asked about Braeden's severe bruising, Zamora attributed the marks to an earlier beating after the boy's misbehavior in the kitchen, the request states.

Zamora repeatedly asked the detective about Braeden's condition, Koontz wrote. When told of his death, "Zamora began to cry and say that he could not believe that he killed a little boy."

http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1959770.html

**runecire** · June 23rd, 2009, 12:16 PM

This man obviously had no parental abilities. A child doesn't just decide to start shittin' his pants for no reason. I agree with Silva that there must have been something else goin on. I bet we find out that this abuse has been going on for a while.

Rest in Peace, Little Angel. You deserved far better than you received.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · August 5th, 2009, 08:30 AM

A mother has been booked on charges connected to the death of her 5-year-old son.

The woman's boyfriend, Eduardo Zamora, Jr., was earlier charged with murder in the case, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department.

Sgt. Tim Curran said Amber Christine Ingram, 25, was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on a charge of felony child abuse.

She is being held on a $100,000 bail.

Curran said detectives "developed information which led them to believe Ingram was complicit in the death of her son."

She was arrested at her workplace Tuesday morning after a warrant for her arrest was issued.

http://www.kcra.com/news/20282903/detail.html

I always thought that the mother-child bond was one of the strongest around. Obviously, some women have a stronger cooter-penis bond. I would demand a brain study but doubt there is one there to investigate.

**ScribbleMuse** · August 5th, 2009, 09:15 AM

I hate these people. The world is turning darker and darker it seems--I'm simply unable to understand how so many parents can murder their children.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · August 7th, 2009, 09:37 AM

More on the so-called-mother's behavior:

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"I never told my family or friends what was happening to my son," Ingram told a Sacramento County sheriff's detective, according to a request for an arrest warrant filed in court. "I was ashamed that I was letting that happen to him and then I didn't do a thing about it, and that I didn't leave."
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The "discipline" started about two weeks after Zamora started watching Braeden when Ingram went to work, she said.

"The first time Eduardo spanked him with a belt was when Braeden lied to him," Ingram said. "Eduardo would say this is how Mexican fathers deal with their kids that lie."

Ingram said Zamora later "felt bad about it," cut up his belt and threw it away, but then got another one.

Ingram said she wasn't present when Zamora spanked her child, but Zamora would tell her about it. She also saw, at least on one occasion, a red mark on Braeden's back and his buttocks, she said. Two days before Braeden's death, she saw injuries on his back, his legs and "pretty much everywhere," she said in court documents.

"When I would see the injuries I would hug him and hold him and make sure that he was OK and I would see the hurting and I would give him ice packs," Ingram said. "He would say I love you and thank you and good night."

Braeden never told her Zamora was hurting him, Ingram said in her statement.

The day Braeden died, June 17, Ingram said Zamora called her at work in the morning to say that Braeden had defecated in his pants. Ingram told Zamora to put Braeden in his room and put a movie on and she would clean the mess when she got home.

Zamora then sent Ingram a picture of feces on the wall to Ingram's cell phone, she told detectives.

Ingram said she wanted to leave Zamora and had called a friend to say she wanted to move in with her.

"I never left because I was scared for me and Braeden," Ingram said. "He said if I was ever (sic) left him or cheated on him, he'd kill me."
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http://www.sacbee.com/ourregion/story/2090301.html

Dipshit twatwaffle. She didn't leave because she was worried about getting killed. Too bad her brain couldn't process anything beyond her own self-preservation.

Also in that article:

One study published in the journal Pediatrics found that young children who live in households with adults not related to them are nearly 50 times as likely to die from maltreatment as children living with two biological parents.

Not just 50 times as likely to be abused but 50 times as likely to DIE.

**Silvahalo** · August 8th, 2009, 01:48 AM

It always hurt so much more to read the mother did little to nothing to stop her childs anguish.

"When I would see the injuries I would hug him and hold him and make sure that he was OK and I would see the hurting and I would give him ice packs," Ingram said. "He would say I love you and thank you and good night."

Good night forever now. Live with that.

Rest in peace little Braeden.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · January 5th, 2010, 07:28 PM

Happy news... unless you are Zamora or Ingram:

Prosecutors today added a special-circumstance allegation of torture against a man accused in the murder of his girlfriend's 5-year-old son last year in the Rosemont area.

Eduardo Zamora, 31, now faces the possibility of a death sentence if he is convicted in the June 17 killing of Braeden James Gardner.

The new filing by the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office today also upgraded the case against Zamora's girlfriend, Amber Christine Ingram, 25. She previously had been accused only of child endangerment. She now is also accused of murder, but without the torture allegation.
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Judge Koller today also granted a prosecution request to obtain DNA samples and dental impressions from Ingram and Zamora.

In her declaration in support of the request, Bladet said an autopsy report on Gardner showed that "the only areas of the child's body not diagrammed with injuries are the palms of his hands."

Medical examiners concluded that the child died "as a result of of multiple blunt force injuries all over his body, both external and internal, including multiple fractures," Bladet's declaration stated.

It also stated that bite marks were found on the boy's thighs.

The prosecutor said the "unique shape" of some of his injuries "may be consistent with sex toys and other toys found in the couple's home."

http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs...e-added-t.html

**Pene784** · January 5th, 2010, 07:45 PM

I had a terrible feeling that we would start reports that this child had been sexually abused too. Unfortunately it fits the behavior that was being described by the boyfriend.

**cubby** · January 5th, 2010, 07:51 PM

"unique shape"..."sex toys"....OMG!!!

Poor baby....

**crickett** · January 5th, 2010, 10:16 PM

Originally Posted by Thinkgoat

You know, he's likely to find he has an inability to control his bowels after just a week or so in the slammer...for other reasons.

Oh I do hope so! This worthless prick wasn't crying because he killed a little kid. He was crying because he's in jail because he killed a little kid, he can't leave and Bubba (who probably has 13 live kids and loves them even though he's an asshole) is just dying to meet him. Cry on asswipe...

Oh God, reading about the so-called mother, the childs injuries and the sex toys just makes me sick..

Poor little angel. Rest in Peace and may you get justice.

**MadeaBecBec** · January 6th, 2010, 02:26 AM

Braeden James Gardner, July 28,2003-June 17,2009
His obituary:

Loving son of Amber and Will Ingram and Kirk Hubbard. Will be remembered by all for his passion of all things mechanical. Braeden loved riding his quad, tinkering with his toy trucks or putting a jigsaw puzzle together. Braeden was often found with "His Will" working on his jeep, bicycle, or anything he could get his hands on. His favorite song was "Tom Sawyer", favorite color: blue, favorite movie: Transformers. Braeden is survived by 5 sisters, 1 brother, 5 uncles, 3 aunts, 5 grandparents, 3 great grandparents, as well as countless cousins and other family. He was preceded in death by 3 great grandparents

I look at Braedens angelic face and tears flow, I just can't stand thinking of his torture and suffering, it's too much......

**MadeaBecBec** · January 6th, 2010, 02:35 AM

In court documents, Ingram – who separated in January from her husband, who is not Braeden's biological father – told detectives that she started living with Zamora in March. The couple lived in a Rosemont duplex.

Braeden was in day care until Zamora was laid off in April as a driver at Allied Waste, where Ingram said she has worked for almost four years.

"Eduardo got laid off and didn't want to pay for day care," Ingram told detectives.

http://www.sacbee.com/ourregion/story/2090301.html

Go straight to hell, Amber and Eduardo! She lived with him three months and she couldn't leave to protect Braeden?? I call bullshit!!
Tears still flowing for Braeden, but I am seriously pissed.......

**sheevaa** · January 6th, 2010, 02:50 AM

That picture just kills me. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but that smiles looks very forced to me.

**koochie** · January 6th, 2010, 09:47 AM

....where were the other children? i guess not living with these two fucktards? why didnt the cowardly mother send him to his real father to be loved instead of tortured...

RIP beautiful boy

**badfish76** · January 6th, 2010, 10:24 AM

I have been out of words to express my horror at these cases lately so I have been rather quiet but this is BEYOND fucked up.

This MONSTER forced poop into the kid's MOUTH!!! I hope he does get the DP and my guess is the kid was probably not able to help it because he was being sexually abused. But that's just my guess.

I wonder if the mom participated in that abuse? If my 5 year old who had been totally potty trained suddenly started to poop herself all the time I would be going to the doctor. Since she didn't do that I have to wonder if she knew amd/or participated in ruining his little body beyond just being beaten.

**MadeaBecBec** · January 6th, 2010, 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by sheevaa

That picture just kills me. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but that smiles looks very forced to me.

My thoughts, too! Braeden would've turned six in a little more than a month, so he must've been in kindergarten, when bio-unit moved in with scum-penis. If she allowed him to go to school. I wonder if Braedens teacher noticed a change in him. Or if Dad had visitation? Oh, how I wish someone had intervened on his behalf, or that he had told someone, but, I am sure Eduardo probably threatened everyone this Angel loved.

So very sorry, Braeden!

**LestYeBeJudged** · January 6th, 2010, 05:03 PM

Not even 5.5 years old. I'm sure he wasn't in school just yet.

This story just keeps getting updated with more and more horrific news. I hope this is the end of it.

Unless the next story is of mom or penis dying a brutal death in prison.

**MadeaBecBec** · January 6th, 2010, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by LestYeBeJudged

Not even 5.5 years old. I'm sure he wasn't in school just yet. (snipped)

Braeden would have turned six on July 28, 2009! All my children were in kindergarten at 5 years old, half days, five days a week. When do they start kindergarten in California?

And I found this in the comments:

“I know Amber and Braeden personally. I loved Braeden immensly. I even wanted to adopt him and at one point actually thought that it was possible. If his father had not been spitefully kept away from him, I know this wouldn't have happened. Jealousy of a step-mother and the love the child has for her is not a good reason at all to keep him away from a whole part of his family that adored him and was adored by him. I am angry for the lost couple years that he was kept from so many people that loved him. Doing that shows how much you DON'T have your child's best interests in mind. You weren't just hurting the father and his whole family-You were hurting YOUR OWN SON. More than you realized now. I am a Christian and have been taught and believe in forgivness. Admittedly, it is difficult for our family in this situation, but I know that is what is needed. Don't get me wrong, I DO believe in the justice system and hope that it is served. WE LOVE YOU BRAEDEN and WILL NEVER FORGET YOU!!”

-- onlyforbraeden

http://www.sacbee.com/ourregion/story/2090301.html
That answers my question about Dad........

**Ninja0980** · January 6th, 2010, 07:07 PM

Once again we see a child used as a weapon against the other parent. This worthless bitch of a mother was more concerned about hurting the bio-dad than her own child. I hope she and the worthless POS who beat this boy to death are drowned in outhouse toilets.

**curethispain** · January 6th, 2010, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by sheevaa

That picture just kills me. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but that smiles looks very forced to me.

I agree, but both of my daughter's school pictures have looked like that. I think at 5 and 6, they aren't exactly sure how to show genuine smiles just for school pictures. Thats not to say that he doesn't have more of a reason to feel that way, but I don't think its completely unnatural.

**Kimberix** · January 7th, 2010, 12:36 AM

why do you people find and put the pictures of these angels on this site...I fucking hate it. I hate this whole fucking story....jesus fuck look at him....the poor poor baby....

**sheevaa** · January 7th, 2010, 12:46 AM

I agree, but both of my daughter's school pictures have looked like that. I think at 5 and 6, they aren't exactly sure how to show genuine smiles just for school pictures. Thats not to say that he doesn't have more of a reason to feel that way, but I don't think its completely unnatural.

True enough. I could be reading more into that wasn't there. Knowing what I do, though, it's hard to get that forced smile out of my head.

**HijabiGirl** · January 7th, 2010, 04:10 AM

It also stated that bite marks were found on the boy's thighs.

The prosecutor said the "unique shape" of some of his injuries "may be consistent with sex toys and other toys found in the couple's home."

Jesus wept.