Jessica Dutro A US court has heard accusations an Oregon woman subjected her four-year-old son to beatings, which ultimately killed him, because she thought he was gay. Jessica Dutro is charged with the murder, murder by abuse and second-degree assault of Zachary Dutro-Boggess. He died in a Portland hospital in August 2012 when his life support was turned off, two days after he was rushed to emergency care with trauma to his abdomen that caused tears in his bowel. The Oregonian reports that Facebook messages Dutro sent to her boyfriend established her motive for inflicting on Zachary a pattern of torture and abuse. She said he was “facing the wall” because he had made her mad, that he was going to be gay: “He walks and talks like it. Ugh.” She told her boyfriend he would have to “work on” Zachary. Authorities say Dutro assaulted three of her children, but Zachary received the brunt of the violence.
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First published: Friday, 28th March 2014 - 9:03am