Perez Brothers Plead Not Guilty After 12-Year-Old Stabbed & Left For Dead

**Dakota Valkyrie** · October 20th, 2010, 09:46 AM

Severino Perez / Domingo Perez

A 29-year-old man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he kidnapped and stabbed his girlfriend's 12-year-old son Saturday, leaving the boy to die in an area just outside Salinas.

The boy was found early Sunday on Chualar Canyon Road with 20 to 30 stab wounds to his upper body. He was flown to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where he remained in critical condition as of Tuesday afternoon.

Deputies and California Highway Patrol officers had responded to a vehicle crash on Old Stage Road at Chualar Canyon Road about 10:20 p.m., where Severino Arango Perez reported the boy had been kidnapped from their home in the 300 block of Williams Road.

The Salinas Police Department was notified of the possible kidnapping, but determined the report was false after the boy was found in an agricultural field about a quarter mile from where Perez's car had crashed. He had been lying there for about six or seven hours following the assault, the Sheriff's Office said.

Investigators said Perez and his 25-year-old brother, Domingo Perez of Salinas, had driven the boy from Williams Road to Chualar Canyon Road in a blue Ford Thunderbird.
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Elaine McCleaf, a county deputy district attorney, said Severino lived with the boy's mother and that the couple have children together.

She declined to reveal the motive for the stabbing, saying the case is ongoing.

http://www.thecalifornian.com/articl...EWS01/10200304

**AngelFire** · October 20th, 2010, 02:46 PM

Fucking cowards.

**crimsonsorrow** · October 20th, 2010, 03:55 PM

Holy hell the boy was still alive when they found him?! Oh please let him heal, don't let him die...

**AngelFire** · October 20th, 2010, 04:29 PM

Such a yong kid too. Heal quickly

**VXIII** · October 20th, 2010, 06:45 PM

What big men, 2 of them so big and bad stabbing a 12 year old...

**Dakota Valkyrie** · December 11th, 2010, 10:34 PM

Preliminary hearing held:

The boy, who was stabbed more than 20 times and found by a passerby in a ditch on Chualar Canyon Road, told detective Martin Opseth that Severino Perez threw sand in his face after the attack and taunted him, saying, "Your mother's not here to protect you."

Deputy Al Martinez said Perez admitted the stabbing, saying he wanted to get back at his wife by killing her son, who had intervened when he was physically disciplining one of her younger children.

The details came Thursday during a preliminary hearing for Perez, 29, and his brother, Domingo Perez, 25, who allegedly rode with his brother and the boy from Salinas to the field where the boy was assaulted. Judge Larry Hayes ordered both men to stand trial on charges of attempted premeditated murder, kidnapping, torture and child endangerment.

The brothers, who face life in prison if convicted, will be arraigned Jan. 6.
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Despite near-fatal injuries, Hayes said, the boy calmly and coherently told Davis that his stepfather and stepuncle beat and stabbed him.

He was airlifted to a San Jose trauma center, where he remains. A doctor testified the boy will have lifelong complications from his injuries.
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According to testimony, Severino Perez admitted his role when he was confronted with the boy's survival.

"He was upset that his wife was leaving him," Martinez testified. "I believe ... he said he stopped stabbing him because he thought he was dead."
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http://www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_16824838

**Dakota Valkyrie** · August 5th, 2011, 07:49 AM

Boy, defiant, tells stepfather: 'I'm alive'

A 13-year-old boy whose stepfather repeatedly stabbed him and left him for dead in a South County field stood before a sentencing judge Thursday to remind his attacker he had failed.

"My stepfather didn't do what he wanted to do," said the boy, who was stabbed more than 20 times by Severino Perez because his mother was leaving the man. "I'm strong and I'm still alive."

His mother defiantly addressed her former husband and asked Judge Mark Hood to send Perez, 29, to prison for the rest of his life.

"I will make sure he becomes a good man," she said of her son through a Spanish-language interpreter. "If God allowed (my son) to survive this, it must be because someday he will do great things."
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Abiding by a plea agreement, Hood sentenced Perez to 11 years to life in prison for the premeditated attempted murder of the boy. Perez's brother, Domingo Perez, received six years in prison for aiding and abetting the attempted murder.
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On Thursday, he (the boy) walked into a Salinas courtroom wearing a long-sleeve T-shirt, jeans, tennis shoes and a green plastic bracelet around his wrist. He smiled shyly as investigators and victim advocates ushered him, his mother and relatives into their seats. He beamed later as onlookers congratulated him for his courage.
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Unlike his brother, Domingo Perez addressed the victim's family and court.

"Forgive me for everything I've done," he said through an interpreter. "We are all human beings, children of God, and I beg forgiveness for what my brother did."

Prosecutor Elaine McCleaf said Domingo Perez admitted to police that his brother told him he intended to "mess John Doe up," but given a chance to save the boy, he ran and said nothing when deputies found him walking on Highway 101.

She said Severino Perez showed complete callousness in stabbing the boy and leaving him to die in a field in the dark. When Perez called 911, she said, he asked for help getting his truck out of a ditch while the boy lay nearby with near-fatal injuries.

Hood said it was an understatement to call the crime "against an innocent, trusting child" callous and despicable.

"Words cannot reach the point of what you did that night. You victimized a child," he said. "But I'm very happy to see he will not be a victim all his life, that he will be stronger because of this."

http://www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_18622626

**AngelFire** · August 5th, 2011, 12:09 PM

"My stepfather didn't do what he wanted to do," said the boy, who was stabbed more than 20 times by Severino Perez because his mother was leaving the man. "I'm strong and I'm still alive."

His statement gave me goosebumps. How I wish I could have been in that court room to see this young man stand there and say those words. You read all too often how these kids don't survive. But to read that not only did he survive but he went on to speak in court is amazing to me. You are indeed a strong young man!!!!

"Forgive me for everything I've done," he said through an interpreter. "We are all human beings, children of God, and I beg forgiveness for what my brother did."

Now this asshole is apologizing for his brother's actions. What about his own? Die fuckers, die!!!

**nopatience** · August 5th, 2011, 12:18 PM

This story brought tears to my eyes. Not because of what he went through, but because of his strength, courage and perseverance. The love and pride his mother has for him is palpable. I have no doubt he is destined for great things.

**redsaid** · August 5th, 2011, 03:19 PM

I am glad to hear for once, that a mom gets to sleep tonight knowing where her boy is resting. In his bed where he belongs, not in some ditch in bum-fucked Salinas. I would be so proud of him! And mom ain't takin shit from her asshole ex either. She wants him put away, she's not up there defending the piece of shit and his brother. I wouldn't live in Salinas if you paid me to.

**Eccentric Lady** · August 5th, 2011, 05:22 PM

Glad to hear the boy survived, but those two men are big pussies! Hope they enjoy the knockers they get tattooed to their backs in the Gray Bar Hotel!