This week the sentence will be known in the Lucio Dupuy casethe boy mde Santa Rosa (La Pampa) who in 2021 was murdered at the hands of his mother, Magdalena Esposito Valenti and your partner Abigail Paez. Guilty is expected to be ruled on February 2, and within a period of fifteen days from that date, the sentence will be known.
The case that shocked society, and developed during the month of January the trial hearings for infanticide, leaves some key points that anticipate the sentence.
cover. “Qualified homicide and seriously outrageous sexual abuse”: The prosecutors in the case, Veronica Ferrero, Maximo Paulucci Y Monica Rivero They accused the two women of qualified homicide and seriously insulting sexual abuse. In the case of Lucio’s mother, Espósito Valenti, she was accused of “homicide triple qualified by the bond, by cruelty and treachery”; “in real contest with seriously outrageous sexual abuse; triply aggravated for being the one who was in charge of Lucio at the time of the events, for having committed the act together with another person and for living with the victim under 18 years of age, as a continuing crime”. In the case of her partner, Abigail Páez, weighs the same accusation, but without the aggravating circumstance of the link.
I hate gender. The complaint, on behalf of Lucio’s father, demanded that “gender hatred” be taken into account as an aggravating factor. “Lucio is killed for being a man, out of hatred for the opposite gender, because, according to them, he interfered in the relationship between them,” lamented the victim’s 5-year-old grandfather, dismayed. Ramon Dupuyin dialogue with The nation.
Autopsy. The final report of the autopsy carried out on Lucio shows that he suffered multiple traumas due to blows, injuries, cigarette burns and “long-standing” but also recent bites, and that he had been a victim of sexual abuse, according to the forensic expert. Juan Carlos Toulouse. According to the autopsy, Lucio died of polytrauma and internal bleeding. “In my almost 30 years in the profession, I have never seen anything like this,” Toulouse said. When Lucio was taken to the hospital by his mother, they claimed that he had been the victim of a robbery.
Clinic history. Based on his medical history, Lucio – between December 2020 and March 2021 – was treated at least five times for trauma, but there was no comprehensive follow-up of this history, nor were there calls for attention from the kindergarten he attended .
Lawyers. The public defender of Lucio’s mother, Pablo Andres De Biasi, argued that the woman “was not the material author” of the crimes for which she is charged; She also stated that there are “reasonable doubts” to be able to prove the facts and even maintained that Lucio suffered attacks before being left in charge of her mother. Maria Silvina Blanco Gomez, Abigail Páez’s lawyer, cited the same argument, and argued that “the death result was not wanted” by her client and that “she tried to avoid it”, a fact that tends to lessen the penalties for homicide. José Mario Aguerrido, plaintiff lawyer on behalf of Christian DupuyLucio’s father, “it doesn’t matter who was the author and who cooperated because they were both authors.”
Drawings. the expert Lorraine Roggiro He referred to the evidence of signs of abuse and mistreatment that the child under 5 would have expressed through his illustrations. The drawings had faces that lacked eyes, which would have as a background family violence that the young man “did not want to see, or that they made him see and did not want to see,” explained the psychologist. “And drawings without legs, due to the violations that he suffered for a long time,” Roggero explained.
Statements. “I just want to clarify that we had a normal life. Lucio was a happy boy and he was happy to be with me. He wanted to be with me because he had already spent some time away from me and he told me that he wanted to be with me,” said Magdalena Esposito, Lucio’s mother, at the hearings, adding that she “cries in private” because it is “more humane than doing it in front of from people who didn’t know him. She also assured that Lucio’s father did not fulfill his role as a father: “The responsibility belonged to both of them. Both mine as a mother and him as a father. Because I didn’t do it alone to Lucio. We did it together. He always disengaged. The only thing he did was pay alimony at some point, but it always seemed important to me that he was present, ”he said. On her part, her partner, Abigail Páez, “her intention was never to hurt, much less kill Lucio,” and that “she misses him a lot.” She also referred to the moment of the murder and confessed that she hit Lucio “because he sent a snot.” “Then I took him by the arm and kicked him several times on the tail. It was all very fast, I don’t know. I hit him and I didn’t measure where, nor do I know why either. I still can’t find an explanation for it, ”she said.
Conflict. After his parents separated at the beginning of 2019, Lucio, who was five years old, was the victim of a very conflictive legal process: fights over visitation regimes and family disputes that led to a final agreement that granted him custody. from the child to his mother.
The case of Lucio Dupuy led to the promotion of a bill that must now be discussed in the National Congress, called the “Lucius Law”. It establishes mandatory training for public officials who have contact with children; an early warning system; and dissemination campaigns for the protection of the rights of minors. The law is promoted by the legislator by the PRO Martin Maquieyra.
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