Another case of why abortion is the better alternative

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Placer DA: Roseville mom sat on 9-year-old son, torturing him as dad did nothing to stop it

Prosecutors in a Placer County murder case allege that a Roseville mother sat on her adopted 9-year-old son and beat him continuously for about 40 minutes as the boy’s father did nothing to stop it.

Cory Albert Blakley, 38, and Kimberly Rachel Blakley, 37, were the adoptive parents of the boy who has been identified as Cyrus Blakley. His parents are accused of murder, torture and child abuse in his death in February.

The prosecutors argued that both parents were responsible for the boy’s death and the pain he suffered, according to a filed court transcript of a three-day preliminary hearing in April in which evidence and testimony was presented.

Deputy District Attorney Andrew Braden, one of the prosecutors in the murder case, told the judge that the boy’s mother, who weighed about 210 pounds, tortured her son by sitting on the child, depriving him of oxygen and “continually beating” him.

“She sat on a child’s chest ... on a cushion and repeatedly beat him for approximately 40 minutes, beat him until he no longer made a sound,” Braden said in court.

The Blakleys had seven children — two biological children, five who were adopted. They all lived together in a home on New England Drive, just east of Sunrise Boulevard.