Gabriel Barrientos and Layla Rivero were released after discovered that they had been wrongly accused of raping and murdering their 21-day-old baby, who died in a hospital in Ciudad Evita in the town of La Matanzaand gave details of the calvary that they had to live while their detention lasted.
The couple spent a calvary five days in a police station after having been accused of “sexual abuse and killing their baby”, who died of cardiac arrestand according to the autopsy she suffered “asphyxia while being breastfed”, and ruled out sexual abuse and any type of mistreatment.
After his release, the man recounted that At the police station they beat him, isolated him, “they told me barbaric things about me and my daughter and I couldn’t do anything because I was handcuffed,” denounced. “I lived a calvaryImagine what my partner went through, they beat her from all sides, and physically and psychologically mistreated her,” Barrientos lamented.
The young man recounted the moment when the baby suffocated, and said that “He was not breathing”, that he tried to perform CPR on him, but he did not react, and explained that he arrived at the hospital “almost naked and in flip flops”. He assured that after his detentionThe first two days, “they didn’t even give them water”, he received insults all the time, they didn’t let him communicate with his family, and he found out that his daughter had died when they took him to jail.
The woman said that it was “the first time in a police station” and that the other prisoners attacked her and the police pressured her “to denounce her partner for abusing the baby”. She said that one of her prisoners kicked her in the face and “some 15 or 20 girls began to hit me.” Layla Rivero regretted not being able to say goodbye to her daughter, “give her our last kiss as parents.”
