THE Trials of Gabriel Fernandez director has revealed how listening to the harrowing child abuse left the Netflix crew "a wreck".
The harrowing new documentary reveals how eight-year-old Gabriel was bound, gagged and made to sleep inside a tiny cabinet before he was murdered by his evil mother and her partner.
Director and award-winning documentary maker Brian Knappenberger and his crew were in the courtroom when Gabriel's mother Pearl Fernandez and her boyfriend Isauro Aguirre were put on trial for his death.
The evidence and testimonies they had to listen to were hard to stomach, with Brian telling Entertainment Weekly: "Judge Lomeli let us into the courtroom and we listened to story after story about Gabriel.
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