He has treatened me and says that my family members have introdused me to a boyfriend, wich is made up by him. He also accusses me of doing porn videos with different people. He accusses me of being with other people, or recording us or him in our bedroom with hidden cameras. As she told a court in her oft-misspelled petition, 'Juan Alvarez has been using drugs for a very long time, and has started halusinating. She got a restraining order that prevented him from seeing his 6-year-old stepdaughter and 3-year-old son. He began to slip away, she said, taking drugs, talking crazy.Ī few months ago his behavior became so erratic and threatening that she threw him out of their house. He stayed home with the children while Carmelita worked as a waitress. He'd hurt his arm on a job and couldn't work. 'He was very good to me,' his wife remembers.īut a year ago, something in Juan began to change. Alvarez worked construction jobs to support his family.

They had a son of their own and moved to a small, tidy house owned by Carmelita's parents on a quiet street in Compton. 2, Dia de los Muertos - the day of the dead, a traditional Mexican holiday. They dated for two years before Carmelita asked him to marry her. He loved her and her daughter - their daughter, he called her - anyway.

She was pregnant with another man's child.

Juan Manuel Alvarez met Carmelita Ochoa when they were teenagers, when they were members of a community dance group. It had not been a perfect marriage, but at times it had been a good one.

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