Category: Heather Maxine Barron

Mother, Boyfriend Get Life Without Parole for 10-Year-Old Boy’s Torture Killing

LOS ANGELES—A Lancaster woman and her boyfriend who were convicted of torturing and murdering the woman’s 10-year-old son were sentenced April 25 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Heather Maxine Barron, 33, and Kareem Ernesto Leiva, 37, were convicted in a non-jury trial March 7 of first-degree murder and torture for the…


Witness Called Hotline After Boy Reported Alleged Abuse by His Mother

LOS ANGELES—Less than three years before his death in 2018, a 10-year-old boy told a school vice principal he had been abused by his mother, prompting a report to a child abuse hotline, the then-vice principal testified Feb. 8 in the murder trial of the boy’s mother and her boyfriend. Gia Greaux, who was a…