Crystian Rivera, 13, was left at home and told to look after his nine-month-old sister, Linda Walleska Beletzuy.

While playing his video game, Linda would not stop crying and caused Crystian’s character to die. This poor baby then had to endure hard, violent shaking, at the hands of her brother. After he was done taking his anger out on her, she was laid in her cot, where Rivera said she continued to cry for a bit then fell asleep. Crystian was then able to return to his video game without the threat of her cries killing his video game character.

When both of the minors parents returned home, they found Linda seriously ill and rushed her to the hospital. She was found to have had a fractured skull and blood hemorrhaging in the brain. Obviously, the parents were initially spoken with because this was clearly a case of child abuse. Oddly enough, the mother offered two solutions about Linda accidentally falling and not being present at either incident.

Seeing as the police were not going to accept that this was an accident, she finally told police that her son, Rivera, had been left alone with the infant for six hours while both parents were at work. The minor was 13-years-old, and therefore legally able to be home alone with a child, which means the parents are no longer in legal danger.

Sadly, the baby passed away due to the injuries and her brother, Crystian Rivera, is now being held on murder charges. He is also facing these charges as an adult due to the nature of the crime.

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