The lawyer of Silvia Acebal, the infanticide of Nuevo Roces: “Like that I did not see a case in 25 years, the one now reminds of the girls of Tenerife”
Noemi Martinez Largo will be, after Silvia Acebalthe woman who killed her newborn son with 53 stab wounds in Nuevo Roces, the second mother who will face the penalty of reviewable permanent prison. This is what the Criminal Law experts consulted by LA NUEVA ESPAÑA, from the Prensa Ibérica group believe, who take it for granted that the 49-year-old woman will have to deal with the maximum sentence provided for by Spanish law. Namely, 25 years in prison insured if convicted and then to wait. Martínez Largo gave a lethal cocktail of drugs to the little girl. That, in the opinion of the specialists, will cause her to be tried for murder with the aggravating circumstance of having ended the life of a minor under 16 years of age who was also her daughter. These same experts see, in the absence of the corresponding psychiatric analysis, that the woman can wield some type of mental disorder to avoid jail or so that her sentence is shorter.
“If it were the private accusation, I would request the reviewable permanent prison and If I were the defense I would prepare myself for him to ask me. I understand that the Prosecutor’s Office will do the same”. The person speaking is the lawyer Javier Menéndez Barbón, who was the lawyer who had to defend Silvia Acebal, the penultimate parricide of the Gijón black chronicle, in May of last year. “They are similar crimes in the sense of who is the victim and the cause of his death, but circumstances are different“, explains the lawyer in reference to the psychopathy that was detected in his client, the first woman who was sentenced to the maximum sentence in May of last year. He committed the crime when he was 27 years old, in August 2019.
“The circumstances are different, but in 25 years I have not seen a case like Silvia’s. Nobody reacts like her, without motivation. Olivia’s case reminds me more of Anna and Olivia, the girls from Tenerife, because it seems that the motivation comes from the change in custody”, analyzes Menéndez Barbón. “Everything indicates that he acted out of revenge against the father and because of that misunderstanding that often happens of believing that the children are an object of your property. From a defense point of view, the only extenuating circumstance is that it is shown that he had his abilities altered“, he recounts.
Javier Fernández Teruelo is Professor of Criminal Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law. He considers that Noemí Martínez Largo will face a reviewable permanent prison and that she will be tried for having perpetrated a murder on a minor under 16. “The girl is killed by giving her poison, I understand this to mean that poison is everything that is given to her someone to kill him,” he argues. “Giving poison to a person is treachery and that makes a homicide a murder”, he argues. “There is an aggravated murder, which is of a minor under 16 years of age. That is a reviewable permanent prison sentence,” she indicates. Fernández Teruelo sees it as very difficult for there to be a mitigating factor. “There has to be a forensic analysis, but defenses are very infrequent. There are very few cases for the conviction to be annulled, so he will most likely face 25 years,” he concludes.
Javier Bernal is a professor of Criminal Law with 30 years of practice. He thinks like his companions. “She will be prosecuted for murder and will face the maximum penalty,” he opines. He also sees it as very difficult for there to be a mitigating class. “The psychiatric reports that are made will be key, but it is very complicated that she suffers from a disorder that abolishes her individual capacity,” he says.