ANTHONY JESY A.J. CABRAL 2YRS (KB-Jason Lenz-Bio Mothers Boyfriend) JURY SELECTION BEGAN FOR JASON LENZ, CHARGED WITH KILLING HIS GIRLFRIENDS 2YR OLD SON Monday, January 11th, 2010 @7:15 AM Lenz, 35yrs, is charged with felony murder and aggravated child abuse. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. The child, Anthony Jesy A.J. Cabral was found dead in his crib January 25th. His skull was fractured, according to his autopsy. Authorities say he was fatally injured when Lenz was home alone with the child. Lenz was caring for the child while the boys mother, Elma Tracey Goldrine, was at work. When she got home that night, January 24th, she did not check on the child. She looked in on him the next morning between 10 AM. and 11 AM. and found him dead in his crib. Lenz told Seminole County deputies that he was carrying the child when he tripped and dropped the boy on a carpeted floor. UPDATE: Sunday, January 17th, 2010 @5:30 PM A Seminole judge declared a mistrial early in the case of a man who is charged with killing his girlfriends son. A jury deliberated for seven hours until reporting about 3 AM. that they were deadlocked in the case of Jason Lenz, who had been charged with felony murder and aggravated child abuse. Circuit judge Debra S. Nelson declared a mistrial. Defense attorney Richard Hornsby argued that the death of Anthony Jesy A.J. Cabral, 2YRS, was an accident. Lenz told Seminole deputies that he was carrying Anthony when he tripped and dropped the boy, cracking the boys skull. Lenz, 35yrs, is to be tried again. He faces a lifetime sentence in prison. UPDATE: February 10th, 2010 @3:31 PM Seminole County, Florida -- The mother of a boy, who prosecutors say was murdered, testified in the retrial of her ex-boyfriend. Jason Lenz is on trial again for allegedly killing 2yr old AJ Cabral in 2009. His first trial ended in a hung jury, because of comments the victims mother made, as she testified. It was one year ago that Lenz and the boy’s mother last spoke to each other outside a courtroom. Her patience for her boyfriends changing stories apparently ran out.Jason Lenz cried as his ex- girlfriend Tracey Goldrine, the mother of the young victim, testified. Besides his previous trial, the two havent been face-to-face since the videotaped encounter in a sheriffs office conference room, shortly after Goldrine found out her child died of blunt force trauma. Lenz claimed it was a fall. “You killed him, Jason,” Goldrine said to Lenz. “I did not kill him,” she replied.“Jason, you killed him,” Goldrine said. Lenz was babysitting AJ Cabral that January 2009 night. Earlier, jurors heard the defendants first interview with suspicious investigators. At that time, Lenz was still saying nothing happened as he watched TV with AJ that evening. The boy just put himself to bed around 6:30 PM and never woke up. “Hes got blood coming out of his nose and hes dead. Do you have an explanation for that?” an investigator said in an interview.“No,” Lenz replied. It was later that Lenz started saying he actually tripped over a pair of slippers as he put the boy to bed, falling on top of the child. But prosecutors believe he actually slammed AJ into a wall, enlarging a dent that was already there. Testimony about the dents in walls around the home almost caused a mistrial, after Goldrine told jurors Lenz himself caused one dent when he punched the wall in an angry rage. Normally, jurors are not supposed to hear about a defendants so-called ‘bad acts’ separate from the case at hand. But the judge did not think the comment warranted yet another mistrial. In court, prosecutors will call both the medical examiner and a DNA expert to the stand. Lenzs attorney tried to get the retrial thrown out as well. UPDATE: A VERDICT HAS BEEN REACHED IN THE MURDER CASE AGAINST JASON LENZ. A jury found Lenz, 35yrs, of Oviedo, guilty of first degree murder in the death of his girlfriends 2yr old son. The jury agreed with the prosecution that he beat A.J. Cabral to death in January of 2009 in the home they shared. Lenz claimed it was an accident. The child died from blunt force trauma to the head. Lenz has already been sentenced to life in prison for the first degree murder charge and 30 years in prison for an aggravated child abuse charge. They are to run consecutively. If you suspect that a child is being abused or neglected...It is your duty to report it! Call this number to report child abuse ANY WHERE 1-800-4-A-Child (1-800-422-4453) or National Center For Abused, Missing and Exploited Children 1(800)843-5678. Please Share!!! Thank you! ^_^ Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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