The Oral Criminal Court of Antofagasta sentenced perpetual prison Qualified a woman who hit her 3 -year -old daughter.
The condemned, Alejandra Santos Santos, was sentenced as the author of the crime consummated parricide, Crime perpetrated in March last year, in Antofagasta.
In unanimous ruling he explains that “(…) at 03:10 on March 28, 2024, at the Antofagasta Regional Hospital, the death of Lmas, 3 years and 6 months of age, was found, daughter of the defendant, who had entered the emergency department of said hospital at 02:40 with a cardiorespiratory arrest“.
“Resuscitation work was done for half an hour, without result. The death of a girl was a consequence of a cranioecephalic trauma derived from multiple blows that her mother, the defendant, who stopped her care, inflicted her in the head in not determined hours of March 27, 2024”.
The foregoing, at the home in which both lived, located in Unión de Norte Camp of the city mentioned city.
In addition, the ruling states that “the victim was in a state of malnutrition and presented other serious injuries caused by the case in the previous days, consisting of extended AB burn on left flank, presumably by hot water spill“.
Systematic violence
This, together with a fracture of warm and fibula in the middle third of the left leg, caused by a strong blow with some blunt object. “Despite the severity of these injuries, None was treated, because the defendant did not transfer the girl to any health center”, It follows from the failure.
In addition, the girl’s body had multiple bruising lesions and scoriations of different data, all caused by the mother herself, which were housed in trunk, lower limbs and especially in the cephalic region.
All this, in addition to “scars derived from older lesions on face and back, along with traction alopecia in various areas of the scalp, All physical signs derived from repeated and systematic physical abuse exercised by the convicted”, Argues the judicial act.
