Blind Bakersfield boy: 'Daddy ate my eyes' | KGET TV 17 (http://www.kget.com/news/local/story/Blind-Bakersfield-boy-Daddy-ate-my-eyes/RK0Wdl1WTUCH5BlkgKlGuA.cspx)
Police believe a Bakersfield man bit the eyeball out of his son's face and ate it, according to court documents. The 4-year-old's other eye was damaged beyond repair, reports said.
The boy's missing eye could not be located, reports said, and he told a detective, ''Daddy ate my eyes.''
Prosecutors have charged Angelo Vidal Mendoza Sr., 34, with mayhem, torture and child cruelty. He's being held in the downtown jail in lieu of $1 million bail.
Neighbors called police on April 28 and reported they found the child naked and bleeding on the floor of the Mendoza home on Ohio Drive, near Highway 58 and Union Avenue.
Police located the wheel-chair-bound Mendoza at a nearby house, where he had severely injured his own leg, witnesses said, by chopping at it with an ax.
The boy had severe injuries to both eyes and hands, according to a police report. He told officers, ''Daddy bit my eyes and hands.''
''It was determined Mendoza was the only person alone with his son during the time of the assault,'' the police report said.
Hospital staff told detectives the boy's ''left eye and muscle was gone and missing.''
His ''right eye was still in the socket but damaged beyond repair,'' the report said.
The boy ''later made the statement, 'Daddy ate my eyes,''' the report said.
Nimrod's Son
05-18-2009, 04:53 PM
see what i mean about letting the mexicans in
Toast
05-18-2009, 04:55 PM
but did he use pepper?
shannon
05-18-2009, 04:55 PM
maybe the kid was looking at him funny
I'm Hardcore
05-18-2009, 05:04 PM
charged with mayhem
smashingjj
05-18-2009, 05:05 PM
maybe the kid was looking at him funny
yes. let's not blindly condemn this father directly
Pizza Club
05-18-2009, 05:07 PM
charged with mayhem
Yeah, seriously. That's actually pretty cool.
sickbadthing
05-18-2009, 05:08 PM
i bet that kid didn't see it coming
I'm Hardcore
05-18-2009, 05:09 PM
Yeah, seriously. That's actually pretty cool.
eating some eyes is pretty mayhem
Rickpat12
05-18-2009, 05:11 PM
The report is lacking enough mentions of the kid's reply of "Daddy ate my eyes".
barden
05-18-2009, 05:18 PM
slicing up eyeballs, uh oh oh... oh fuck it.
I'm Hardcore
05-18-2009, 05:24 PM
i hope the police don't turn a blind eye to this crime, know what i mean?
brings the ol' saying "eye for an eye" into play, if you know what i'm sayin'?
duovamp
05-18-2009, 05:27 PM
That mayhem charge is pretty eye opening. :rockon:
Joe
05-18-2009, 05:28 PM
ah crystal meth, making us laugh for years.
wHATcOLOR
05-18-2009, 05:30 PM
that is horrifying
I'm Hardcore
05-18-2009, 05:32 PM
Duovamp you sure are the apple of my eye, if you catch my drift?
duovamp
05-18-2009, 05:34 PM
Eye read you loud and clear.
shannon
05-18-2009, 06:09 PM
you guys are making me laugh :/
ravenguy2000
05-18-2009, 06:14 PM
The report is lacking enough mentions of the kid's reply of "Daddy ate my eyes".
yeah, not too insightful
i wonder if the father was blind with rage
I'm Hardcore
05-18-2009, 06:16 PM
blind drunk and 'eye on meth, i'd say
I'm Hardcore
05-18-2009, 06:17 PM
a visionary of the criminal world, you might say
ravenguy2000
05-18-2009, 06:17 PM
when it came to anger management he wasn't a very apt pupil
publius clodius
05-18-2009, 06:18 PM
HEY GUYZ IS THIS ABOUT POPEYE
I'm Hardcore
05-18-2009, 06:23 PM
Police located the wheel-chair-bound Mendoza at a nearby house, where he had severely injured his own leg, witnesses said, by chopping at it with an ax.
oh there is this too
ravenguy2000
05-18-2009, 06:24 PM
at least he'll never make a spectacle of himself
or buy spectacles for himself
something
nvm
publius clodius
05-18-2009, 06:28 PM
i guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Nimrod's Son
05-18-2009, 06:35 PM
the kid should have run away... but hindsight is 20/20
Nimrod's Son
05-18-2009, 06:40 PM
i hope the dad gets the chair, but we all know justice is blind
Joe
05-18-2009, 06:49 PM
i bet that kid is an eye-sore
Joe
05-18-2009, 11:33 PM
any wonder that kid cant sleep?
i of the mourning new breakfast cereal!
i know i'm sleepy
ella
05-18-2009, 11:47 PM
I'm sure the dude received his daily value of protein, based on a 2,000 calorie diet of course.
Mayfuck
05-18-2009, 11:48 PM
how was that an eye pun?
wHATcOLOR
05-18-2009, 11:49 PM
i hate you guys
Joe
05-18-2009, 11:52 PM
i guess he will have to use his minds eye.
Joe
05-18-2009, 11:53 PM
his dads favorite tool album 10,000 eyes
Joe
05-18-2009, 11:54 PM
looks like dad had his eye on the prize
Joe
05-18-2009, 11:54 PM
his sight gone in the blink of an eye
ella
05-18-2009, 11:55 PM
No pun intended of course.
I'm just so adjective, I verb nouns.
Joe
05-18-2009, 11:59 PM
kid should have kept an eye on his dad!
bardy
05-19-2009, 12:20 AM
someone should have kept an eye on (in) that kid!!
I would bite peoples eyes out and chop my legs with axes if I have to live in bakersfield....................................... .......................
Mablak
05-19-2009, 12:31 AM
that is horrif-eyeing
That's how I immediately read it
publius clodius
05-19-2009, 01:39 AM
I would bite peoples eyes out and chop my legs with axes if I have to live in bakersfield....................................... .......................
arent popular nu metal act korn from bakersfield
ATS
05-19-2009, 08:52 AM
this is what happens when your culture gives children less and less rights... if we dont bat an eye at millions of children being killed each year then things like this will come next
SlingeroGuitaro
05-19-2009, 09:47 AM
that kids poor sister- looks like she'll be riding solo on the seesaw
SlingeroGuitaro
05-19-2009, 09:52 AM
but seriously, this thread is really cornea
The Jesus
05-19-2009, 09:58 AM
I hope they make that little fella some Terminator eyes
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/4482/31122371lo.jpg
Close-up of the eyes of a Terminator, from the movie Terminator Salvation (2009)