On June 15, 2024, a woman agreed with her partner who takes care of her 4 -year -old son while she was going to work.
Santiago David Av, the woman’s sentimental couple, arrived at the house after she left.
Shortly after, the man supposedly sent a message to the woman to inform him that the child fell and presented blows to the face and did not react.
Both agreed to find themselves at an intermediate point to take it to a health house. When he arrived, the child did not pray.
The infant arrived without vital signs to the San Francisco hospital. Although the attempts to resuscitate him extended for more than 20 minutes, he did not respond. He declared it dead.
Legal autopsy and exams revealed something macabre. Not only had been beaten, but possibly abused.
It was determined that the cause of death was violent, product of polytrauma caused with a blunt object.
The expert who examined the body determined that the lesions were caused shortly before the death.
An exhumation expertise also revealed injuries to the child’s intimate parts, which showed a possible episode of sexual abuse.
In the investigations, the presence of P30 protein (biological fluid of the processing) was evidenced in the pants that the child wore the day of his death. An DNA expertise identified the child’s genetic profile in garments of the sentenced.
With the elements collected, the suspect was taken to trial for the murder.
The penalty imposed was thirty -four years and eight months of deprivation of liberty, the maximum sanction contemplated in the Integral Criminal Organic Code (COIP) for the crime of aggravated murder.
The defendant was sentenced based on article 140, numerals 2, 6 and 7 of the COIP. The aggravating circumstances established in article 47, numerals 5, 9 and 11 of the same standard were applied.
During the trial, the case prosecutor also showed that the victim was subject to abuse. Among the tests presented are the transcripts of voice messages sent by the child’s mother to prosecuted, in which insults and screams are evident.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the judges also ordered the opening of an investigation for alleged crime of rape, which could have been committed against the child.
The mother – located to the process – is a fugitive and with a current arrest warrant.
In addition, the Criminal Guarantees Court ordered the opening of a case for alleged homicide to the infant’s father, for alleged omissions and negligence in his care.
