“The baby had a skull fracture and admitted to the pediatric ICU. The doctors were convinced that they were ill-treatment,” he explained on Monday at the trial for parricide Almassora (Castellon) one of the Civil Guard investigators, who spoke with the baby’s mother – a 17-year-old minor who has already been convicted in the Juvenile Court for a crime of murder by omission -. “Said it was all accidentalbut he also admitted that the father hit the child because it bothered him that he cried,” said the aforementioned agent, who confirmed that the baby’s life expectancy was only “two or three days.”
On the first day of the popular jury trial, held on Monday, another member of the Civil Guard witness asserted that the doctors were clear from the beginning and said that the child “would not survive” and confirmed, as his colleague had previously stated, that the conditions of the family home were “unhealthy”.
Antonio Fernández, the young man accused of beating his ten-month-old baby to death in September 2020, refused to testify in the first session of the trial with a popular jury held against him by the Provincial Court of Castellón. The defendant, 21 years old and who is facing reviewable permanent prison, did not even want to answer the questions of his own defense attorney.
The trial continues today with a long list of 15 witnesses. Likewise, it is expected to continue throughout the week with expert statements, conclusions and the delivery of the object of the verdict on the 18th for deliberation.
What does the prosecutor ask?
The Prosecutor’s Office requests that the young man from Almassora be sentenced to a reviewable permanent prison for a crime of murder and accuses him, In addition to murder, injury and domestic violence habitual. And it is that since the birth of the baby, according to the account of the Public Prosecutor, the parent gave him slaps, punches and bitesOn one occasion, he even twisted her arm to the point of causing an oblique fracture of the right humerus when the victim was only two months old.
Thus, on September 13, 2020, the boy began to babble while the couple was next to him at the Almassora family home, located on Sant Pere street. As he could not sleep for this reason, the defendant approached the crib of his son and “acting with purpose of ending his life, he grabbed him and hit him twice against the wallcausing him with such behavior injuries consisting of cranioencephalic trauma to the left side of the head, which ended his life shortly after, “according to the prosecutor.
The paternal grandparents of the deceased baby and parents of the now accused claim nothing for these facts, but the minor’s maternal grandmother does, for whom the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office requests 150,000 euros in compensation.