A 9 year old boy He is admitted to a hospital in Córdoba. He had arrived at the guard with a high fever and a “atypical seizure.” The studies were conclusive: it was intoxicated by cocaine consumption. His parents were charged.
The case was uncovered on Sunday night, when the boy’s father took his son to the ward of the Eva Perón hospital, in the city of Córdoba. He had a “respiratory condition.” The fever did not go down and doctors detected an “atypical seizure.” When performing an analysis they discovered traces of cocaine in the urine.
At first, the parents were surprised by the situation. “It was a surprise for the parents, apparently because a third person could have done this. For a boy of that age he could have consumed,” said Guillermo Checchi, director of the hospital, in The twelve.
However, the boy’s own father later detailed that the mother and another of her children have addiction problems.
This Wednesday, the Family Violence prosecutor, Pablo Cuenca Tagle, charged the father and mother with culpable injuries.
The baby is out of danger and in good health.
The statement in which the father spoke of problematic cocaine use at home is one of the keys to the investigation. On Monday, there was a raid on the family home. With the intervention of the Family Violence Prosecutor’s Office, the rest of the brothers were transferred to receive medical attention and to undergo toxicological analysis.
The results of these exams will be key to knowing if the 9-year-old boy’s condition was an isolated case or if, on the contrary, there was widespread consumption. For now, the prosecutor speaks of “negligence.”
“To date (this Wednesday), the prosecutor’s office has ordered the indictment of the parents of the minor intoxicated with cocaine for the crime of negligent injuries. So far, the evidence collected shows us negligent acts “, indicated Cuenca Tagle, according to statements collected Chain 3.
“However, we must not rule out any hypothesis, the investigation continues, and we are also awaiting the evolution of the minor, who remains hospitalized, waiting for his testimony to be highlighted and for him to give us his version of the events,” added the man at the head of the investigation.
