L'affaire Gabriel Fernandez

This enthralling documentary will make you sad. It will enrage you. It will also cause utter frustration at why this young boy died for absolutely no reason. I watch many documentaries. This one in particular has remained with me long after the final credits rolled. What a senseless tragedy.

I cannot even fathom how those 2 monsters could do what they did to an innocent sweet loving boy. i never cry while watching documentaries like this but i've cried so much while watching this. what hurts the most was that the boy still loved his mom.

This is a disturbing documentary about a boy who was systematically abused by his mother and her boyfriend, and nobody did anything about it, although the signs of physical abuse were blatant. I don't regret watching it because I work in social services, with children and youth, and it is a reminder of our duty to them above anything else. I would not recommend everyone to watch it as it gave me nightmares.

Sad, heartbreaking, gut wrenching, angry, mad....

All these words are emotions you will feel watching this.

But please keep in mind, if you are just a relative, by law you cannot just take the child without the mother's permission, it is called kidnapping.

That being said, there were numerous points of failures by many individuals that could have prevented this tragedy.

Pay attention people, think about how abuse has affected us all in one way or another, big or small. This is yet another account of the consequences of abuse left unchecked in people. This is what happens when pain is left untreated and unacknowledged in society, this is how it manifests - through death of the innocent. I recommend everyone watch this to get an understanding of the magnitude of this problem. What happened to this boy is what happens to so many children and people in general on a daily basis in our society, we have to start thinking in terms of the collective, not just for ourselves. We are all responsible for each other and we can prevent things like this from happening.