Remember Jessica Dutro, the Oregon monster mother who, together with her boyfriend, beat her toddler to death because she thought he was gay?

A similar case has surfaced in California, and it's just as heartbreaking. Details are below, via the Los Angeles Times, but be warned, they are graphic and involve the vicious beating, homophobic taunting, and murder of a child.

Before 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez [right] was allegedly beaten to death by his mother and her boyfriend, they doused him with pepper spray, forced him to eat his own vomit and locked him in a cabinet with a sock stuffed in his mouth to muffle his screams, according to court records made public Monday... Gabriel's mother, Pearl Fernandez, called 911 on May 22, 2013, to report that her son was not breathing. She told sheriff's deputies who arrived at the apartment that Gabriel had fallen and hit his head on a dresser, according to testimony. When paramedics arrived, they found Gabriel naked in a bedroom, not breathing, with a cracked skull, three broken ribs and BB pellets embedded in his lung and groin. He died two days later. "It was just like every inch of this child had been abused," testified James Cermak, a Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedic... Fernandez and [boyfriend Isauro] Aguirre deliberately tortured the boy to death, hiding their tracks with forged doctor's notes and lies to authorities, Deputy Dist. Atty. Jonathan Hatami told the grand jury. "For eight straight months, he was abused, beaten and tortured more severely than many prisoners of war," Hatami said.

Believe it or not, it gets worse. More details after the jump.