The Asunta case, one of the most high-profile and unusual cases in Spain, celebrates its 11th anniversary this year. Netflix has taken the opportunity to launch its documentary miniseries about the police investigation that reveals the modus operandi of crime. Despite the time that has passed, there are numerous unknowns surrounding the case, such as the motive that pushed Asunta Basterra’s adoptive parents to kill the girl and why she never admitted having committed the crime. In addition, Alfonso Basterra, Asunta’s adoptive father who is serving a prison sentence, has not had access to permits in more than a decade.
An unusual case full of unknowns
The case still raises some unknowns for which no answer has been found. First of all, the motive that led the adoptive girl’s parents to commit the murder. Secondly, the reason why the girl’s adoptive parents never pleaded guilty and neither of them confessed why they ended the little girl’s life. Furthermore, it was not only that, since the adoptive parents were slowly poisoning the girl and They had a plan to carry out the murder in a premeditated and violent way. They have also never explained the reason why they drugged the minor for a time as if it were an experiment.
The arrest of the accused
The police officers first arrested Rosario Porto, Asunta’s adoptive mother, during the little girl’s cremation. A day later, the judge also charged the girl’s father, Alfonso Basterra. Both went accused of ending the life of little Asunta Basterra and sentenced to 18 years in prison. After entering prison, Rosario Porto took her life in her cell on November 18, 2020. Now, Alfonso Basterra, Asunta’s adoptive father, is serving eleven years in prison. The judge sentenced him to 18 years in prison for murdering, along with his ex-wife Rosario Porto, the 12-year-old girl.
The conviction of Alfonso Basterra
Alfonso Basterra He is serving an 18-year sentence in Teixeiro prison without admitting or showing regret for his daughter’s crime, as he himself acknowledged after having broken off relations with most of his family members. For this reason, He has not had access to prison permits either. as stipulated in Article 154 of the Penitentiary Regulations.
Alfonso Basterra He applied for prison leave on several occasions., but it was denied by the Treatment Board of the Teixeiro prison and by the Penitentiary Surveillance Court of Galicia. As confirmed by ‘El Correo’, it was Alfonso Basterra himself who personally made the requests. According to article 156 of the Penitentiary Regulations, the prison technician can issue “an unfavorable report, due to the peculiar criminal historythe anomalous personality of the inmate or the existence of unfavorable qualitative variables.”
In addition to not recognizing the facts of the crime and the lack of repentance, Alfonso Basterra has not had exemplary behavior in prison. In fact, the convicted man was transferred two years ago to a harsher module when officials caught him giving an illegal object to a dangerous Russian prison inmate. Furthermore, before this event, Alfonso Basterra had already been in the isolation module after clashing with other inmates and for allegedly engaging in harmful behavior with the prison guards. Due to his attitudes, Alfonso Basterra He has also been subjected to the anti-suicide protocol. Apparently, according to ‘El Correo’. Eleven years ago, the accused sent her ex-wife Rosario Porto a letter in which he announced that he intended to end her own life when she was released from prison.
