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Overview
Law enforcement officers are often in situations that mere mortals could only imagine, or, perhaps, would not want to imagine. There can and will be life-and-death situations, and sometimes such decisions need to be made in mere seconds or even fractions of seconds. However, officers are also placed in potential life-and-death situations that allow them to slow things down and truly make choices that can impact lives.
Such an opportunity arose when San Antonio officers responding to a wellness check at a residence saw a harrowing site. A four-year old boy who had two black eyes, bones protuberating and bruises on his body. The boy’s father told cops that the little fellow had been “self-harming”, that he constantly was seeking food, and the father and stepmother had gotten to the point they had placed padlocks on the refrigerator to keep the boy from trying to get into the fridge at all hours of the night.
Officers also noted that the boy was the only one among several siblings who was in a room without a bed and forced to sleep on a urine-soaked mattress. They spoke to him but never really away from his father and stepmother, and (somehow) he was able to smile and claim that he had “…hit himself.”
After the fire department had been called and checked on the lad, they determined his “vitals were normal…” and left. The officers were informed they needed to file a report with Child Protective Services and then they, too, departed leaving little Benji Cevera alone with his father and stepmother.
Within a few weeks, Benji was dead of---starvation, weighing only 28 pounds.
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