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DA: Revere cop handcuffed 5-year-old, then beat him with fists, belt for not eating dinner

Marcos Garcia, 32, of Everett, had bail set at $5,000 today at his arraignment on charges he abused his girlfriend's five-year-old son on Jan. 12.

A Chelsea District Court judge also ordered Garcia to stay away from the victim and witnesses - and from all children under 18, except for the child he has with his wife.

According to the DA's office:

[Assistant District Attorney Alissa] Goldhaber told the court that Garcia had been in a romantic relationship with the mother of the 5-year-old victim. On the evening of Jan. 12, when the child did not eat dinner quickly enough, Garcia allegedly sent the child to a bedroom, placed him in handcuffs, and beat him with his hands and a belt, Goldhaber said.

Garcia allegedly instructed the child to shower and rubbed ointment on wounds sustained in the beating. Prosecutors said Garcia told the victim and a second child who was present in the home at the time to tell anyone who asked that the injuries were the result of falling down a flight of stairs, prosecutors said.

The following day, the victim attended school and asked the nurse for a Band-Aid. The nurse observed bruises on the front and back of the child’s torso, arms, and neck. The victim was taken to Boston Children’s Hospital for treatment and documentation of the injuries. Clinicians also detected elevated liver enzymes, which are sometimes attributable to abdominal trauma, Goldhaber said.

After initially stating that the 5-year-old had fallen down the stairs, the victim and the second child later said they wanted to “tell the real truth” and participated in separate multidisciplinary interviews, Goldhaber said. State Police assigned to the Suffolk DA’s office arrested Garcia on Saturday after an interview, and their investigation is ongoing.

Innocent, etc.


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Stories involving children being abused for no good reason are always tough to hear/read. Hopefully Mr Garcia gets his comeuppance once he gets inside, assuming he ends up serving time. Which from the sounds of it he most certainly deserves.

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Stories involving children being abused for no good reason...

Please tell me a good reason for child abuse.

Actually, I'm guessing that isn't what you actually meant to say.

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Granted I wasn't handcuffed nor beaten with a fist, but I deserved most of the spankings I got. Now days spankings are considered abuse. But you're right, I didn't include a qualifier that says there are good reasons to abuse children because the two statements aren't mutually exclusive.

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More to the point ... THEY DON'T WORK!

Completely ineffective discipline. Do some research - plenty of studies that demonstrate this.

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I know beatings kept me out of trouble and by no means were they considered abuse back then. I had to go get a switch off the tree a couple of times in my day.

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That is quite an indictment to then get off on five grand bail. Chelsea District is a kind court. Just wondering, if someone does that to a child, what do they do to adult suspects?

Is this guy still on the force?

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It's not to reflect the severity of the crime but to be high enough to ensure the defendant shows up in court again.

Also worth noting, and my apologies for not including it in the original post, this was not a case of the prosecutor asking for a high bail and the judge reducing it - the DA's office asked for that amount of bail.

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Seriously, fuck this guy and take his badge away. I would encourage a boycott of Revere Police if they didn't. Heartbreaking story.

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Will you refuse to get arrested or refuse to call for help when you need it? Perhaps you should try saying things out loud first.

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There is a lot of bad news reported on a daily basis, but this one really resonated with me. I feel so bad for this little boy.

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As of this morning he was on paid leave. At what point in the proceedings is that changed? This guy is a disgrace to men and police.

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At what point in the proceedings is that changed?

When he's actually found guilty of the charges and fired for it. You may not like it, but that's the way our system works - innocent until proven guilty.

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A Chelsea District Court judge also ordered Garcia to stay away from the victim and witnesses - and from all children under 18, except for the child he has with his wife.

How does the court determine that the biological child is not at risk?

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I bet he's a fast eater.

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What was the judge thinking, letting this wanker around the kid who's probably most likely to also be abused? It's not like adults who abuse the kids under their authority only get off on the power if it's a girlfriend's kid, not their own bio kid.

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The childs Mother is also a cop and on paid leave. Shes as much if not more to blame!! Shes supposed to protect that child she gave birth to! Disgusting!!

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The real crime here is that he told them to say the kid fell down the stairs. Come on, guy. That and walking into a door are the two lamest and most worn-out excuses for "I'm pretending I wasn't abused" ever.

If someone says they fell down the stairs or walked into a door, you immediately think "what was his name?". It's like he wanted to get caught.

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He had that blue aura about him that would get him believed?

Too bad they won't keep him away from his bio child.

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I couldn't have said this better myself. The blue aura, love it.
This guys deserves to be put in jail and let the general population provide him some justice for picking on a 5 year old child, big tough guy that he is. I wonder at what point he would have pulled his gun on these kids, desert?

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Says he's back in uniform in some rust belt state PD within 2 years.

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