Today from 12 the sentence will be known for the case Lucio Dupuythe 5-year-old boy who in 2021 was killed by his mother Magdalena Espositoand of the couple of this, Abigail Paez. Through the official Youtube account of the Criminal Judicial Office Santa Rosa – La Pampathe verdict will be broadcast live, with a particularity: a few days ago, the defendants requested not to be present while it was read.
The verdict was scheduled for this February 2, to find out if the defendants are guilty or innocent. But to know the corresponding penalty, they would mediate fifteen days and a new hearing. However, due to a programming change, Today both the sentence and the penalty that falls to the accused will be known.
Both Esposito and Páez could receive life imprisonment, on the charge of triple qualified homicide for the bond, for the cruelty and treachery in a real contest with seriously outrageous sexual abuse.
During the 18 hearings that the process lasted, more than 100 witnesses and an autopsy report appeared that determined the serious injuries that Lucio Dupuy had on his body, from bites, cigarette burns, signs of sexual abuse and it was determined that it was a kicked in the liver from one of the blows that caused the child’s death, causing significant bleeding. “In my almost 30 years of profession I have never seen anything like this,” said the forensic doctor Juan Carlos Toulouse, who took over the autopsy. Neither of the two defendants wanted to be present during the doctor’s testimony.
Both defendants were able to speak during the hearings. “They criticize me, but not the parent, because ‘father’ is too big for him. He (Christian Dupuy, Lucio’s father) is justified when the responsibility was both. However, he at all times ignored the creature. And it is not true that Lucio did not have family contacts. He had contacts with the parent, his grandparents, my family and Abigail’s. If they were not satisfied with these contacts, it will be because they did not take more pains to have them,” said Magdalena Espósito, Lucio’s mother.
“Everything they can say about me is horrible, so I apologize to the people who have felt touched by the issue and by this whole situation, and who cry and miss him as it happens to me and his mother. And I also want to apologize to my family and my mom because I failed her, because she didn’t teach me these things. I don’t really know what happened, I have many gaps in my head, and if I didn’t tell details it’s because I’m very traumatized. I know that he (through Lucio) forgave me. Hopefully I can forgive myself, ”said Abigail Páez when she was allowed to speak.
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