Neighbors Who See Stabbing Kick Ass
Henry Diaz III Beat His Son to Death & No One Bothered to Stop Him
![]() |
The child's mother, Heather A. Romero, prepared a bottle. But the baby's father, 19-year-old Henry Diaz III, decided the kid didn't deserve anything. Instead, he put three blankets over the baby's face -- presumably to drown out the wailing -- and the couple went back to bed.
At 7 a.m. the next morning, police received a 911 call from a neighbor in Tucson saying that Angel was unresponsive. The couple tried to explain it away, saying that the baby had fallen from a bed a few weeks back. Romero also claimed she'd taken Angel to the doctor just a week before and that he was fine.
Yet when Angel died, their stories began to collapse.
The baby hadn't actually seen a doctor since he was just a few days old. Moreover, Angel showed all kinds of signs of abuse. He had fractures on his elbow and ankle, plus breaks in his femur and rib cage that had already begun to heal. There were bruises from head to toe, and doctors suspected internal bleeding.
Henry Diaz's mother, who lived with the couple and her grandson, told police that her son was always yelling at the baby to shut up. When she tried to tell him that Angel was just a baby, Henry told her to mind her own business. She would later admit to police that she knew "the baby would not be with us long." But she apparently did nothing to stop it.
The same appears to be true of Angel's mother, Romero. She told police that Henry Diaz was often violent with her, and he refused to let her leave the relationship. In December, he was arrested for domestic assault. He was also arrested for auto theft later that month.
But though she told police that she was being beaten, she never told them about Angel's abuse until it was too late. Detectives believe the little boy was regularly beaten over his six-month life.
And because that abuse was so systemic, Henry Diaz has now been charged with premeditated murder.
See our last story from the Child Abuse file: Keith Brown, Patriarch of the Singing Group The 5 Browns, Pleads Guilty to Molesting His 3 Daughters.
More links from around the web!
-
OH MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, THIS PUKE WILL BE DEALT SWIFT PRISON JUSTICE SOON AS HE IS BOOKED IN, I GUARANTEE IT !!!
-
Oh look...an entire FAMILY of retards. Poor baby.
-
Just looking at his pic makes my skin crawl, and thats without knowing the crime yet! WHo is consensually procreating with this loser, I dont know but I'll assume she's no prize either, especially after "going back to sleep" after hubby tried smothering their baby!!!! WTF is wrong with people?! AND the parents of these 2 idiots, shame on you-for not acting on your suspicions sooner! If I felt that strongly that a baby (any baby, esp in MY family) was in danger, you can bet I'd be on the horn with nauthorities, and social services ASAP! Saddens me to think though, that in this system, it would probably take a few calls before anyone did anything... poor Angel, I hope you rest in peace-its disgusting what these goons did to you.
-
Hello
-
IT seems to me that the mother and grandmother didnt give a shit if they really cared they would have done anything to protect that child.. if my parents knew my child was getting hurt like that they would kick me to the streets .. fuck them for doing NOTHING to help that poor baby >:(
-
They should be eaten alive by rats!
-
These assholes are pathetic and disgusting cowards!! Hang them all, hang the pathetic excuse for a man by his genitals!
-
WOW The Grandma never did nothing to stop it!! Fucking Sick Dad!! What a Sick Family!! How Can Someone do tht to a innocent baby, if I were the I would've of taken the baby away so fast!!
-
I doubt this guy is going to last long in prison... Baby killers and child abusers aren't very well liked in prison.
-
K, I'm done now :)
-
Drlover ah, doctor who must be a band..My bad @Morgan don't even worry about it.She was actually being NICE to you. Leave it alone, she admitted that she was a little harsh.
-
This is repulsive to me-mother and grandmother literally stood by and let this cowardly fuck beat that child to death. Abused? So? That child had no god damn choice but to be there, it couldn't get up and walk out like the mother could have or the grandmother. Either one of them could have taken that child out of the home but they didn't.
-
Note: This is the year 2011. Obviously, I haven't made that switch yet. LOL
-
I don't know, Sangy. People need to own up and account for their own actions in life. I agree that there are certain longstanding situations where you can buy into the abuse or Stockholm Syndrome type deal, but that is rare. This is the year 2010. I know how you've explained your upbringing, but I do not believe that to be the norm across the country. In certain religions, yes (that is definitely part of the story with these types of situations - brainwashing from birth). For the vast majority of people today, I believe they expect and want the same opportunities for their girls as boys. Abuse is really not an acceptable answer, sorry. You have a brain and a woman shouldn't get an easy out. I don't give a shit how much someone beats on a woman, if YOU ALLOW a man to TOUCH your child, you are a filthy, weak-minded piece of shit. All that making excuses for that behavior does is say women are mentally weaker. I know I'm sure as fuck not, and that excuse shouldn't be used (the vast majority of time) for others, either. There is simply NO EXCUSE for being weak willed while your child is being beaten to death. NONE. This isn't the 1930's where women's choices were limited. Also, for the record, many of us were raised to not put up with shit for one second. I have NEVER been involved or even dated a man who even thought of hitting me. EVER. Sorry, but not everyone deals with this. None of friends have, either. It depends on the type of people you're dealing with, really. I don't even deal with people where this would even be an issue, it's a fucking given that you don't do it. I understand that not everyone is in my situation, but please realize that the majority of the country doesn't go around beating on people or women. If a woman wants to be weak and allow herself to beaten, that's her choice. The second you allow someone dependent on you to be beaten (and that includes animals), you fall into the weak-minded sack-of-shit category. Woman the fuck up, have some guts, character and determination and CHANGE the situation. A person ALWAYS has choices and in the year 2010 there is more than ample support for abused women.
-
those who on this thread are screaming at the woman for not defending her kid. you folks still have spirit. . I'm talking at ones who have been in a abusive situation. and had the strength of will power to do what needed to be done to get out of it. . remember that it is NOT the same for every woman in the same situation. . many have had their spirit broken by the situation. that they are UNABLE to do something about it. even when their kid(s) are being injured or even killed. . think on it as it being in a tree. a tree that is bent over by the force still has a chance of living. but a tree broken by the same force has died. . and I bet in this case. the woman's spirit has been broken to the point it has died. . all she is doing is existing. she is in many ways no longer living.
-
I see a beating in the near future for this guy!
-
aww..drlover, the medical community? were you meant to be a doctor? I have my guilty pleasures too. I've always wanted to be a homicide investigator.
-
@Tamber.... just a huge Doctor Who fan, my guilty pleasure!
-
LOL!...BARTENDER?? I was in the wrong thread. @drlover I am also a girl..39. :) what does dr lover mean/ (besides the obvious)
-
@Tamber....I'm a girl! I agree that auntie Aussie sounds good. =) I am 44, you?
-
I did learn, and i have never been in an abusive relationship since...thank you God!
-
*bartender, looks like were're all alone* AUssie is AUtumns new AUntie..Auntie Aussie, I like that :D
-
*wink, wink* drlover, thank you. Its a spin on my first name.Man or Woman, married or single? lol just kidding.
-
@ kcsmom I was conveying to Morgan how I read your post. Nothing personal at all. If anything I was defending you (smiley face while gritting my teeth)But I appreciate that you recognized you were a little harsh :) @drlover man or woman? @cc good for you! Someone said we all learn something from good or bad in our lives.I think so far for me that has held true. I have never been physically abused in any relationship, but as a child my sisters and I were severely neglected emotionally and physically and I would never let anyone do that to my children either.
-
There is NO excuses for these woman to have allowed this abuse to continue,,whether they were abused or not...When I was 18 I had a son with an abuser, who was all sweetness and goodness up until after I had the baby..He was so violent he kicked my two front teeth out, and thank God they changed the laws around that time so i couldnt drop the charges, and he went back to jail..Years later, I let him have visits with my son,,and one day i saw him snatch an ice cream out of my son's hands and throw it out the window,,That was all I had to see,,,I picked up a Butcher knife and let him KNOW that he would never be putting his hands on my son..He ran off of course(thank God), I was abused as a child and I will never, ever, stand by while a child is abused..
-
All three of them need to be charged with murder. They mother and grandmother are just as guilty for standing by watching it happen and not doing anything about it. This makes me sick. That baby was innocent, and couldn't even protect itself. It didn't have the choice to leave. As a mother, my first priority has always been my daughter, ever since the day I found out I was pregnant. Although I was raised that no man would ever lay a finger on me out of anger, if anyone ever hit my daughter, they would be out of our lives do fast their heads would spin. Parents need to start protecting their children, not some asshole who just donated the sperm/egg to make the child. Damn I am pissed now.
-
@Sang - I agree
-
@kcmum --Just checkin! @Dr -- Agreed
-
@drlover.......I agree. . thing is, she could have been conditioned by the guy and her own family never to question the man of the household. to do so. is to blasphemy against the Church. since there are bible verses that hold the man as being over the woman in worth. . and remember a person whose spirit has been broken will tend NOT to do anything. they are in many ways incapable of defending anyone. including their own child. . and it is possible that by defending her child. she in their mind would have been going against the husband. remember what I said about the bible and it's take on who is 'master" of the house.
-
To those asking why grandma and mom didn't do anything....it's possible he was also abusing one or even both of them. It's also possible that a) he was the only one making money so they'd have nowhere to go and no way to get there if they did leave, or b) the mother was the owner of the house and the only one making money (he is only 19, after all). If he was physically abusing his kid or wife, his mother might think twice about making him angry and throwing him out or calling the cops on him. Because sadly, what happens in cases like this is, more often than not, if they don't catch the parent beating the kid in the act, or the kid isn't practically dead already, the police don't do anything, or even better, get the person who called them for something minor (possession, outstanding warrants for court, whatever). If grandma has a bong in the bedroom, or is letting her 19 year old son and the presumably also underage mom have some beers, it's more likely that she'll get arrested and her son will get mad and take it out on the baby/the mom/her.
-
Oh gosh sorry I just realized I sound kinda bitchy there at the start. My bad for that I didn't mean to come across that way @Aussie I didn't think they were either lol so thanks for bringing that to my attention
-
I didn't think they were attacking at all. Tamber is brand new here isn't she? Not any troll in her that I've seen. Btw...I think it's a cute nick name!
-
@Kc Mom -- I read those comments before and i didnt think they were attacking you...so to speak....just saying
-
Ugh damn fingers I shouldnt type one handed sorry for all the typos ya'all.....I was in the process of getting attacked by the formentioned alien lol
-
@ Morgan....and Tamber....because your right you dont speak for me...and Tamber your dead wrong. I realize I opened myself up to you both...and the other trolls on this sight by calling my daughter the alien...Its a family joke...it means no disrespect and normally neither of you would get a response from me because I simply dont have time to get into fights with random people on a forum. But this was actually a good question and one I get asked a lot....and Morgan you actually asked in a respectful way..so kudos to you. My daughter's nickname is actually the alien because she kicked...alot...and hard...in fact she kicked so hard once that she sent a magazine that was laying on my tummy across the room. It made me and everyone who saw it burst up in laughter and I said something along the lines of "it feels like she is trying to recreate that scene from the movies Alien" then her father started calling her the alien and it just stuck...it might sound callous to some but it is meant with nothing but love and kindness. We even have a giant blow up alien in her play room that she just loves. We obviously dont just call her the alien we also call her honey bunny but thats where the name comes from...for those wondering
-
Every member of this "family" is guilty in this baby's death. Do you know what it takes to fracture an infant's femur? It's absolutely impossible for that to be an accident. I'm with Kristin- Carl, whattaya got?
-
Tha deranged psycho, he just did not have the love of a dad to let love over take his own self hate. The mom did not care either. ( im was only a baby, i knew when i cried they would only hurt me again, but i needed to be fed, hugged, held and showed they loved me)
-
What the hell!!!! Babies mother needs to never be allowed to have another child period!!! Murders mother needs more that a smack upside the head to not rasing her "son" properly. Father needs to meet the next big guy who can beat him the way he beat the baby over a period of time. Leave alone with his broken bones and then beat him again.
-
mp, You are exactly right. There is no excuse. Raising women/girls in cultures where women are taught be submissive is a big part of the problem. First I'd take the baby, second I'll kill the father. Period. However, when you're raised to do what the man tells you (hispanic culture and many U.S. far right religions), that enters into it. Fucking pathetic if you ask me. There IS no excuse, just trying to offer a little bit of an explanation. Weak-willed and weak-minded. Take some god damn ownership for yourself and your kids, ladies. As for him, kill him. Carl can decide the torture.
-
@Sangelia....I understand what you are saying, but I still don't think it is an excuse for not protecting that baby. I was in a very controlling relationship too, the abuse was always verbal at first. After I gave birth to my first child his father hit me, once. I was scared, but that baby was more important to me than my own safety. I got out, immediately. It was not easy, but for my sons sake, I did it. The knowledge that he was capable of violence was a reason, in and of itself, for her to leave once she had that baby.
-
yes, the stupid bastard needs to be obliterated. and frankly im tired of women claming the man won't let them leave. grow some balls ladies, you can leave, theres plenty of help for you to leave...and if you have a kid whos seen teh abuse or been part of it, well you better leave. its your job to protect your children. if youre too much of a piece of shit to leave, well then please rot in hell.
-
the baby was only crying for attention for his mom, dad to feed him, to hold him, show him love. That is the way babies are. No one not no one bothered to help the baby from being abused by the deranged psycho. (I know when i cry for the least attention, they will only hurt me again, but i need my feeding, i need to be held, i just wish they would love me like they are suppose to, I am only a 6 month old baby.)
-
folks............something tells me that the 'dad' of the poor baby was also brought up as a abused child. . and to him that it was unfortunately normal to do that to his wife and child. . and it is possible that the grandmother was treated very much like her daughter in law was by her own husband. and her son is unfortunately continuing the cycle. not only with her. but his wife. and the poor kid. . as for the mom of the poor kid. she is most likely living in fear. fear of how he is gonna lash out at her for anything. to the point that she will not try to defend anyone but him. incase he takes it out on the one she is trying to defend. . that is one of the signs of a woman with a broken spirit. when she gives up on trying to defend anyone but her abuser. . abusers are in many ways control freaks. they believe they have the right to control their enviroment the way they do. to the males that do it. they have the G-D given right to treat their families as they do. especially the females and the offspring. . they try to break the spirit of those they want broken. this way the person and or animal will not resist them in any way. . unless you have been in a simular situation. it isnt easy to realize the pain the abused goes thru. to a point, it was my life. i've had a control freak of a father. he trained my brother to keep his "thumb" on me as long as I was single.
-
This shit just reminds me of what happened to Baby Brianna...hopefully mom and grandma are charged as well...they deserve to be...letting it happen is the same as doing it yourself....fuck them.
-
That poor little baby. I can only imagine the 'parents' didn't go to the doctor after he was a few days old because they were already abusing him. He must have had broken bones and bruises his whole life. I wish we could be informed of the details of all the horrors the 'father' will endure in prison. I hope all of his bones are broken and he is someone's punching bag for a long time before they take him out. Those women are just as guilty and deserve the same treatment. I have 4 kids, no matter what abuse I would endure, you hurt my child and there would be nowhere to hide.
-
Be back later friends. I have to take Autumn for her shots.
-
@Morgan I don't want to speak for kcmom, but the way I read it was that she is referring to the way she felt when she was pregnant, because she had resolved in her mind that she wouldn't ever have children. I believe she meant foreign when she said alien.
-
That poor baby.Like someone else said, on this thread, no wonder that poor baby cried all the time. I injured my rib about four weeks ago and in the first week, I couldn't sleep on back, sit up, lay on my side, or cough without being in excrutiating pain.Four weeks later it's still painful. Especially the force from a sneeze feels like a have cracked something. I cant imagine a baby having to live in constant pain like that. The "grandmother" needs some sort of punishment herself. And look at what she raised, a baby and woman beater and murderer
-
That poor little baby! Absolutely terrible. Do people not realise that if they don't want the child there are plenty of childless couples who would be willing to adopt... I understand that in abusive relationships it is often a psycological battle to leave but if i was in that situation i wouldnt care what happened to me as long as i got out with my child safe....
-
That poor baby. It's no wonder he cried all the time. Bruisad from head to toe, broken bones and internal bleeding! I think the mother and grandmother should also be punished for not protecting him. God bless this baby.
-
they should all rot in hell!
-
hope he likes jail, cause they sure as hell don't like baby killers!
-
::shakes her head:: I just don't know what to say, sadly part of me thanks the powers that be that this child didn't have to suffer with these so called people any longer than he did. Just wish someone had done something... I don't know what to think about the grandma...omg
-
I second what @Stacy and @CarlM suggest should be dispensed on all the adults in the house who were supposed to be nurturing, protecting, guarding, and LOVING the helpless, innocent BABY! Jeebus Effing Kriste!! Ooohhhh I hate hate HATE such miserable wastes of human tissue. OMFG! I hope beyond hope that this bag of maggot puke is given the death penalty, which is extremely likely, and the same should happen to the worthless female used tampons who turned their back on the baby in favor of protecting themselves.
-
And just look at his face! you can tell he's the sort of jerk who thinks he's "the man" I bet he gets in peoples faces if he thinks they've "dissed" him. When he's being marched to his jail cell someone should hold a banner up saying child killer so everyone knows. And yes the nasty Mother and Grandmother should be charged. I know that there must be a history of violence or something behind their behaviour BUT FFS!!!! A baby is the most vunerable member of our society and if the pathetic breeding mare couldn't do something to help her child then she doesn't deserve her freedom. I would die for my kids I would also kill for my kids and if any man inc their Father even threatened to hurt them he would be dead meat (except he also would die for his kids or kill for his kids would he do that for me/ I doubt it LOL).
-
I can just imagine the excruciating pain that poor baby was going through to have broken bones on his body but they never took him to the doctor so they just healed on their own with no type of medicine! SMH........I am so heartbroken after reading this and I hope that those 3 low life heartless bitches suffer for the rest of their lives! I blame the mother & grandmother just as much as I blame that cowardly azz so-called father who was such a pussy that he had to fight a little baby!! DIRTY BASTARD!!!
-
@ Jenn Thank you for that comment...when I got preggers with the alien I to wasnt exactly thrilled at the thought of becoming a mother. I had always thought of myself as one of those women who would never have kids....not that I didnt love kids but the whole noise factor and mess factor...my headaches and OCD for messes gave me nightmares all threw my pregnancy with the alien. But when the doctor's put her in my arms for the first time I fell in love and now I simply couldnt imagine my life without her and I am thrilled to be expecting another one. Your so right there are breeders and ovens....and then there are Mothers. This breeder needs to be jailed along with the grandmother who could look the other way. The sperm donner just needs to die. One abusive fucker and two responsible women in the house should have given this baby every chance to live. But no..the women let the abuse continue and told no one. The whole family is fucked and deserves everything the law can throw at them.
-
All 3 of them need to get their asses beat,and then rot in hell,those fucken females knew what was going and and didnt do anything to stop it..how freaking weak can someone be to let another person hurt a baby..and that man,well I hope he has balls cause hes gonna get whats coming to him in the pin..My blessings go out to Angel..he is a real angel now and with his real father..God Bless you baby!!
-
I don't understand how a "Mother"(notice the quotes) can allow someone to do that to a baby. You carried that baby for 9 months felt it kick, stretch, and move; just to let the "Father"(don't forget the quotes) treat him like a punching bag. Smh, I don't get it...
-
the mother i think was to scared and it sounds like battered to do anything about it the loss of her child with always be with her as long as she lives the grandma should have at least knocked her son out for that stuff called to cop or some thing. now the pain this guy put on this baby i think should be done 10000 times to him so lets start with a beat down each day for a week and burn him with ciggs then after a week drag him by the ears to the Arena and forced to fight 5 times a day for another 3 to 4 days after that drag him to the town of pain and put him in the torture rooms and torture him even more. oh not done yet then we drag his butt out and throw him in a hole put eletirce ells in and watch him die lol
-
@Jenn - Yes, that would be a better way of phrasing it.
-
CT, when I got pregnant, I wasn't necessarily wanting to have a baby either, but we make it just fine. So I would like to re-word your statement to fit my thoughts. Being a mother is not the same as breeding.
-
@CT....So true about mothers. My biggest pet peeves are when I see little kids running ahead of their parents in parking lot, when I see kids obviously young enough to still be in car/booster seats-but are not even in a seatbelt, and little kids riding bikes without helmets. I always point them out and say to whoever I'm with, "there goes another kid whose mother doesn't love 'em"...a little extreme perhaps, but it's an accident waiting to happen. And before someone says 'we didn't wear helmets when we were kids' - I realize that, but there wasn't as much traffic back then either.
-
I said this to my husband this weekend as we watched a woman let her what appeared to be 4 year old run around a busy parking lot with an infant in a stroller while she talked on a cell phone -- some women have children not because they want to but just because they aren't smart enough to prevent it. There is a big difference between wanting to have a baby and having a baby. A lot of women can have a baby - wanting a child is a different story. Stupid fucks. I hope he is dealt with in the same way other baby killers and rapist are while incarcerated.
-
That poor baby was surrpounded by idiots, I'm sorry he suffered as long as he did. But relieved that he wont suffer anymore.
-
@iLLusionS....Yeah,the Anthonys, another candidate for 'Fucked Up Family of the Decade'!!!!!
-
A household of dumb fucks! She raised that animal. Surely protecting your kids doesn't involve letting them kill your grandkids? Or holding their hand after they did........ Oh wait the Anthony's!
-
They should all be charged with something. That baby had every chance of surviving if the mother or grandmother had intervened. I understand about the abusive relationship, but it is no excuse for allowing your baby to suffer and die! Shoot them all!
-
And I can't help thinking that even if the mother was afraid of him, why didn't she wait til he went back to sleep and go feed the baby. I agree the baby's mother and his mother should also be charged.
-
He looks like a little f'n puke. I know I can take him. Little f'er needs to die.
-
What the hell kind of mother is she?? We see by the 'product' she raised! They all need to be charged with something for sitting around with their thumbs up their asses, while this child suffered at their hands. They are all guilty! Way to go dumb bitch! You raised a real fucking prize!
-
Someone needs to take this fucker by the ears and slam him head onto the concrete!!!! Then do the same thing to everyone in the house that allowed with to go on!!!! Stupid bastards... all of em!
TotalComments: 72

