Warning: Distressing
A jury has this weekend recommended that a man be sentenced to death in the US for the torture and murder of an 8-year-old boy.
Isauro Aguirre, 37, from Los Angeles, has been convicted of the murder of his girlfriend's son, little Gabriel Fernandez.
The 8-year-old boy was repeatedly shot with a BB gun, beaten and forced to sleep in a small cabinet with his hands and feet bound and his mouth gagged.
A seven-woman, five-man jury deliberated for about seven hours over three days and on Wednesday recommended the death penalty for the man, as opposed to life in prison.