Boggs' mother fearful
Restraining order alleges son was unstable, abusive
By Adam Foxman (Contact)
June 13, 2009
When David Boggs set his elderly mother’s Camarillo mobile home on fire and shot himself to death Thursday, authorities were trying to deliver a restraining order his mother had filed the same day alleging he was unstable and abusive, records show.
After years of isolating his 89-year-old mother from relatives and emptying her bank accounts of more than $210,000, Boggs, 51, became increasingly abusive in recent months, according to the restraining order, which sought to evict him from the Camarillo mobile home.
Boggs began living with his mother in January 2000 after his father had a stroke and asked him to care for her physically and financially, according to the restraining order. His father died five months later.
Boggs took over his mother’s finances immediately after moving in, and later that year he ordered her to avoid contact with her side of the family, according to the restraining order.
“I became a prisoner through fear and intimidation,” she said in the document.
In 2004, Boggs and his mother moved from Salinas to Camarillo, according to court documents. The mother claimed that in 2005, he wouldn’t let her see her daughter or granddaughter after they drove six hours to see her. That same year, Boggs “physically stopped” his mother’s sister from seeing her, she alleged.
In September 2008, Boggs allegedly took more than $210,000 from his mother’s bank accounts and put it into an account in his name, she alleged.
The mother also alleged that he stopped speaking with her in March, forced her to communicate in written notes, and left the air conditioning on constantly even though he knew she was freezing.
In March, Esperanza Boggs saw her sister at a neighbor’s birthday party. She asked her sister to tell her daughter to come get her, according to the restraining order.
On May 8, the daughter drove to Camarillo and “rescued” her mother, the restraining order says.
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