How Could You? Hall of Shame-Ogilvia Pineda and Kyle Macias UPDATED

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From Bend, Oregon, an ” anger management counselor and her adult son are accused of abusing the woman’s three foster children, including punching a 7-year-old until he vomited and hitting him in the head with a glass, which broke and cut him.

Ogilvia Pineda, 46, and her son Kyle Macias, 23, were arraigned Monday in Jefferson County Circuit Court on felony child abuse charges, the Bulletin reported. They are currently being held at the Jefferson County Jail in Madras.

Pineda is a counselor focusing on substance abuse and anger management at Crook County Mental Health in Prineville.

Her lawyer declined to comment. Macias’ lawyer could not be reached.

Pineda’s foster children, between the ages of 3 and 7, told investigators Macias would force them to eat food from the trash. The 7-year-old boy said Macias regularly punched him in the stomach, sometimes causing him to vomit, according to court documents filed this week.

The children also accuse Macias of forcing socks into their mouths, causing their throats to bleed.

The children told investigators that Pineda would tell them that their blood relatives didn’t love them.

They accuse her of pulling their hair and ears and striking the boy on the head with a glass jar, causing a gash that required stitches, court documents state.

The boy also said Macias kicked him in the head, forced him to take long cold showers and held his head under water.

The investigation into Pineda and Macias began in May after she brought her foster son to a Madras hospital with a large cut on his head, according to a search warrant affidavit written by Jefferson County Sheriff’s Detective Jason Pollock. A nurse found several bruises on the boy’s body and called police. Police called child welfare workers, but they declined to come to the emergency room because the child and his foster mother both said falls and sports injuries, not abuse, caused the numerous cuts and bruises.

After further detective work, however, the children were removed from Pineda’s home earlier this month, court documents state. Most of the harsh conduct was designed to force the boy to do chores or be quiet or to punish him for failing to do so, he told investigators.

Immediately after they arrested the pair, police search Pineda’s home and found socks with blood spots on them and a broken jar matching the description the boy gave of the one that injured him.

Their cases are scheduled to go before a grand jury this week.”

Oregon anger management counselor, son accused of abusing foster children

[Oregon Live 8/1/18]

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Update:“A Madras mother and son have been convicted after what prosecutors say was the abuse of two foster children that included “significant” injuries.

Ogilvia Pineda-Garcia, 50, and her son Kyle Edgar Macias, 27, were convicted after a three-day bench trial. It involved a 4-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy in their care.

The Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office says the case laid out that Pineda-Garcia took the boy to the emergency room at St. Charles in Madras in May of 2008. He had a “significant” laceration to the right side of his face that required several stitches. The hospital reported this to law enforcement because Pineda-Garcia’s explanation for how it happened didn’t match up with the injury, the DA’s Office said.

But the child didn’t express they had been abused, so they were allowed to return home with Pineda-Garcia.

In June 2018, both children were dropped off at the Department of Human Services office with multiple injuries to their bodies including cuts, bruises and abrasions. The girl was reported to have “significant hair loss,” injuries to her face, forehead, upper body and abdomen.

The children were interviewed at the KIDS Center in Bend where they disclosed they had been abused, the DA’s Office said. The boy allegedly said that, at one time, he had been kicked in the face and was held face-up under running water in the bathtub by Macias until he couldn’t breathe.

The boy also allegedly said the cut he suffered that sent him to the ER was due to being hit in the face by Pineda-Garcia with a glass mason jar that shattered.

After serving a search warrant, law enforcement found a set of seven mason jar-type glasses at the home. Sheriff Jason Pollock, who was a detective at the time, moved the refrigerator in the home and found a glass fragment that appeared to match the seven jars, the DA’s Office said.

The person who treated the boy at the hospital testified that the injuries the boy received were consistent with being hit with a mason jar.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Brentley Foster, who prosecuted the case, commended all the agencies involved — saying that their actions may have saved these children’s lives.

“Foster further noted that the real heroes in this case were the kids who were brave enough to tell what was happening to them and face their abusers in court,” the DA’s Office said.

Pineda-Garcia was convicted of 2nd-, 3rd- and 4th-degree assault, 1st-degree criminal mistreatment, unlawful use of a weapon and harassment.

Macias was convicted of 2nd- and 3rd-degree assault, 1st-degree criminal mistreatment and strangulation.

Sentencing is set for January 3 [2023].

“These cases serve as a reminder that child abuse can be occurring in an household, and if you see children that are possibly neglected or abused, please say something about it,” District Attorney Steven Leriche said in a statement.”

Madras woman, son convicted of abusing foster children
[Central Oregon Daily 12/2/22]

Update 2:“Oglivia Pineda-Garcia, 50, received 9 1/2 years and her son Kyle Edgar Macias, 27, received seven years in the case in Jefferson County. The pair was convicted in December after a three-day bench trial.

The case involved a 4-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy in their care.”

Madras woman, son sentenced to prison for abusing foster children
[Central Oregon Daily 1/4/23]