Jennifer Barideaux and her boyfriend Tadeo Garcés Jr. refuse to say what happened to the young Gideon Barideaux

• Gideon Barideaux, 2, was beaten to death but no one is charged with the crime.
• The child’s mother Jennifer Barideaux and her boyfriend Tadeo Garcés Jr. refuse to declare.
• Barideaux and Garcés Jr. erased all information from their phones before speaking to authorities.

Two-year-old Gideon Barideaux was beaten to death and a year after his death authorities still cannot charge anyone for his death. Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr. and his girlfriend Jennifer Barideaux were arrested in connection with the boy’s death, but authorities cannot charge them because there is no evidence to incriminate them.

The case against Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr. and his girlfriend Jennifer Barideaux, mother of little Gideon Barideaux, is further complicated because the two detainees have availed themselves of their right to remain silent, which is enshrined in the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution and allows them to refuse to say anything that could incriminate themselves.

Why aren’t Jennifer Barideaux and Tadeo Garcés Jr. talking?

The story of the death of the boy Gideon Barideaux and the subsequent arrest of his mother, Jennifer Barideaux, and her boyfriend, Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr. is one of the most tangled cases in the annals of recent Texas crime history. There is a dead child, there are two detainees, but there are no culprits.

The Kerrville Police Department (KPD, for its acronym in English) calls on the community in Texas that if anyone knows for sure how the child Gideon Barideaux died, and what is the relationship of Jennifer Barideaux and Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr. in his death, not be afraid to speak to the authorities.

The tangled case in the death of Gideon Barideaux

The story of the tangled case began on Thursday, August 6, 2020 in the town of Kerrville, located in the northwest of the San Antonio metropolitan area. The town is a rural community with many cattle ranches and thousands of Hispanics who work as cowboys or foremen for cattle.

That hot summer Thursday Jennifer Barideaux went to visit her boyfriend, the Hispanic Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr., at his apartment and took her little son Gideon Barideaux with her, the product of a previous relationship with the woman. The case documents do not contain the name of the minor’s father.

What happened in the department of Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr?

While Jennifer Barideaux was in the apartment of her boyfriend Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr. something, that only they know for sure, happened to the boy Gideon Barideaux, since the mother herself called the emergency number of the Kerville Police Department to ask for help for your little boy.

According to the first KPD officer who arrived at Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr.’s apartment, a woman who identified herself as Jennifer Barideaux told him that her son Gideon Barideaux had fallen and when collapsed he had hit his head on the floor of the department of His couple.

The boy Gideon Barideaux is transferred to a hospital

The KPD agent explained that he found the child Gideon Barideaux unconscious and, given the severity of the blows, requested assistance from an air ambulance from the San Antonio Fire Department (SAFD) to be transferred to a hospital and save the child’s life.

This is where things start to get tangled up. The boy Gideon Barideaux was taken to a San Antonio hospital, while KPD agents took the statement from his mother, Jennifer Barideaux and her boyfriend, Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr., about how the boy had fallen in such a way that he was shocked and unconscious.

The child’s injuries did not correspond to a fall

The doctors who treated the boy Gideon Barideaux stated in their first medical report that the injuries that the minor presented in the head were not consistent with the statement of his mother, Jennifer Barideaux and that of her boyfriend, Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr. That was the First red flag for KPD officers.

Little Gideon Barideaux, after spending three days in the University Hospital, passed away due to his severe injuries from the blows to the head. The medical examiners of the Bexar County During the autopsy on the child, they agreed with their colleagues at the hospital that the blows on the child could not have been caused by a simple fall.

A beating homicide was the official cause of death

The official cause of death for the boy Gideon Barideaux was determined in August 2021 as a severe hitting homicide. There was a body, there was evidence of a homicide, but there was no detainee. KPD Homicide Division agents then detained Jennifer Barideaux and Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr.

With the arrest of Jennifer Barideaux and Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr., the case in the death of the boy Gideon Barideaux became even more tangled. During interrogations with the KPD Homicide Division agents, the couple only said that they were invoking their Fifth Amendment right not to declare anything that could incriminate them.

The detainees deleted their phone history

KPD Homicide Division officers desperate for a statement from Jennifer Barideaux and Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr. asked a judge to allow them to get hold of the couple’s cell phones to look for possible incriminating evidence in the death of the child Gideon Barideaux.

When the agents were able to access the cell phones of Jennifer Barideaux and Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr., they discovered through telephone forensic experts that the couple, immediately before calling the emergency number, had deleted all their history, photographs and messages from the two telephones. The case became even more tangled.

The couple refuses to speak

Jennifer Barideaux and Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr., who were still in custody, refused to reveal to KPD Homicide Division officers what they deleted from their cell phones. The agents so far have not been able to recover anything that was in the memory of the phones until before the boy’s death.

The agents of the KPD Homicide Division could only charge Jennifer Barideaux and Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr. with the charge of tampering with criminal evidence for having erased the history of their cell phones. Surprisingly, the two accepted the charges. Even Garcés Jr. said he was guilty and asked to be sentenced.

Gideon Barideaux’s brain hemorrhage

In the documents of the case it is established that the child Gideon Barideaux died of cerebral hemorrhage after being hit on the head, perhaps repeatedly, with a blunt object. In the apartment of Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr., no object was found that matched the boy’s injuries.

Jennifer Barideaux, 34, and Tadeo Raymond Garces Jr., 37, remain in the Kerr County Jail awaiting sentencing on the criminal evidence tampering charge for having their cell phone history erased. As of this writing, the two refuse to speak to the authorities anymore.

Does anyone know how the Gideon boy was killed?

Agents from the KPD’s Homicide Division issued a statement on Monday, August 9, 2021, a year after the death of the child Gideon Barideaux, crying out that if anyone knows what role Jennifer Barideaux and Tadeo Raymond Garcés Jr. had in the death talk to the authorities.

«Investigators, as well as medical personnel, recognize that Gideon Barideaux’s injuries are not consistent with an accident,» said the KPD and asked who has reliable information about the case to communicate to the non-profit organization. Kerr County Crime Stoppers at 830.896.8477 and reveal details of what you know.

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