The authorities were alerted from the hospital, and personnel from the Women’s Police Station of Regional Unit VIII were present. Gerardo Casco, in charge of the San Vicente Court of Instruction, ordered the detention preventively of the woman, as well as that a toxicological examination be carried out.
After the search of her home, María, 21, was charged with “homicide aggravated by the bond”. At the house, they performed luminol tests to detect blood stains, the result of which was positive. In addition, during the work of the Scientific Police Division, fingerprints were collected and elements of transcendental interest for the case were seized.
Hours later, the Police managed to arrest the minor’s stepfather in a mountain area. According to a communication from Regional Unit VIII of San Vicente, Darío R, 36 years old, was in a rural area known as Picada Zulma, at the height of RP No. 12 and 40 km from the urban area (on the border with the town of Caraguatay).
The accused, housed at the police headquarters and at the disposal of the Investigating Court, faces a judicial case classified as “homicide aggravated by the bond and minor injuries aggravated by cohabitation.” The deceased child had two brothers, ages 8 and 5, both sons of Darío.
Neighbors revealed that Atriel suffered from violence
“About two weeks ago, during an early morning during the last cold weather, I heard that the man got angry and demanded that one of the children take a cold bath because he had peed in the bed.“, revealed Aníbal Luis Da Silva, who lives next door – “wall to wall” – of the accused couple, in dialogue with The territory.
The day after becoming aware of the abuse, The neighbor went to the Second Section to make a complaint, but did not receive a positive response. from the officers: “They told me ‘if you want to make a complaint, we will take the complaint, but if we go and it doesn’t happen like that, they will make a counter-complaint, so you will go to prison and you will have to pay them for damages.’ “That is to say, they did not take me seriously.”
Stepfather Atriel
Aníbal understood that response as an invitation not to get involved. But a few days later the murder occurred.
According to the local media, the couple had been living for less than three months in a single rental room in the Esperanza neighborhood of San Vicente, without divisions. The children stayed inside the house all day and did not go out to play with their neighbors.
“She didn’t even look to the sides, she didn’t even greet the neighbors, it was obvious that she was very afraid of them and she was mistreated.“, said another neighbor, Belén Olivera, who assured that the mother had “her arms cut and her mouth swollen” until recently.
“The baby they killed I always had bleeding wounds in the lip areawhich looked like cigarette burns,” he added about Atriel.
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