Malachi Magana
October 28, 2006
- May 9, 2009
On the day before Mother's
Day of 2009, Belinda Janette Magana wrote a message on her My Space page,
it read:
"Happy mothers
day weekend 2 all u mom's. Enjoy every moment with ur fam..."
The very next day,
Sunday, May 10, 2009, MOTHER'S DAY, Belinda would call police and
say that her son, Malachi Magana, had gone missing from the park. That
would turn out to be a horrible lie!
Police and volunteers
did a search for Malachi on foot and in the air. The search lasted all
night and into the morning, they didn't find him. Eventually, the search
was called off due Belinda and Naresh being
suspected of lying
when their stories didn't match up on what had taken place that afternoon.
Belinda Magana, who
was 23 years old and her live in boyfriend, Naresh "Michael" Narine, who
was 37 at the time, were questioned by the police who immediately sensed
that they were both lying about what had happened. Police Lieutenant Mark
Johnson said that as soon as they began to interview the couple, they began
to doubt what they were saying was the truth. Early Monday morning, May
11, Malachi's body was found in a shallow grave, about ten miles off of
Interstate 15 in the rugged terrain off of Lytle Creek Road.
An autopsy would
rule Malachi's death as a homicide though police did not release any information
as for how he was killed.
Belinda and Naresh
were arrested and held in jail with $1 million dollar bail, each. Belinda
was arrested under suspicion of felony child abuse and being an accessory
to murder and her older son was taken away and placed in protective custody.
Naresh, who is not Malachi's father, was arrested on suspicion of murder,
torture and cruelty to a child causing a death.
Police believe that
Malachi was tortured and killed on Saturday, May 9th in the apartment where
they all lived for about a month. Belinda and Naresh had been dating for
only about five months, though on her My Space she referred to him as her
"hubby". Friends who were in support of Belinda posted messages on her
My Space, one of those comments read:
"Give it all
to the Lord. God is the only one you need to cry
out to. He
is the only one that can and will comfort you at this time"
Robert Calvary
At a news conference
after her daughters arraignment, Maria Salsida, Belinda's mother, said
that her daughter was brainwashed by Naresh and that he is the one who
is responsible for Malachi's death:
"She's being
accused of something she didn't do. That man who is supposedly named Michael,
he poisoned my baby. He abused her and my grandson, and now my grandson
is dead"
"He's abusive,
he's abusive and he has a bad track record. And with my grandson, my grandson,
he beat him,
he killed him. Every evidence points toward him.
"A child is
a child, he can't do no harm, my daughter didn't harm him. My daughter,
my
daughter is
innocent, I know her, I raised her, I raised her in the church. Anybody
from our
church can
tell you that's it's not her. He's a monster, he took her away from us,
he took her
away from
the family she was living with. He didn't let her talk to me at all.
Maria add that the
police knew about the abuse and they did not act in time to save Malachi:
"The Fontana
police knew about this because there was a report made earlier, two months
back, and
the Fontana police said they couldn't do anything unless something bad
happened.
I hope they're happy now because my grandson is dead"
Around 6:pm, on Mother's
Day, Belinda called to report her son as missing. Family had gathered at
the park for a Mother's Day party. As soon as they were interviewed, investigators
began to suspect that something was not right:
"Things just
weren't adding up. It was learned that the child was never in the custody
of the
family while
at the park It was also determined that the child had received injuries
that were
caused by
both parties and was the victim of a homicide"
Police Sgt.
Jerry Pawluczenko
Mark Johnson said
that the location of Malachi's body was determined while conducting interviews
with Belinda, Naresh and other people.
"This is a
very critical stage in the investigation. We're still trying to get everything
nailed down"
Mark Johnson
Naresh is no stranger
to being in prison. In 2006 he plead guilty to grand theft. Naresh had
a job as a repairman at a mobile home park. He took more than $100,000.
dollars from the elderly owner and tried to hide it from him. Naresh was
sentenced to five years in prison and was released early, in 2008, with
a one year parole sentence.
During that time,
Naresh's mother was also in prison after contacting and meeting with two
undercover police officers in order to solicit the killing of her husband
who worked as an officer at the California Institution For men, in Chico.
She and her husband were trying to reach a divorce settlement. Yvonne thought
that since another guard
had been stabbed
at the prison, that she could hire someone to kill her husband and it would
not be traced back to her.
In court she testified
that she never paid anyone to kill her husband and that she had been drunk
when she spoke with the detectives. In 2007, Yvonne Narine was convicted
of soliciting an undercover police detective to kill her husband and she
is serving a six year sentence.
Malachi, on the day
of his baptism...What a handsome little man!
For information about
preventing child abuse in the state of California, click the links below.
If they can't help you, ask for someone who can. NEVER give up looking
for help for an abused child!
Call this number
to report child abuse ANY WHERE in the United States!
1-800-4-A-Child
1-800-422-4453
   
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