(SPECIAL DELIVERY) Today at 12, after a process that began in November of last year, the Santa Rosa Court finally sentenced the murderers of Lucio Dupuy to life imprisonment, Magdalena Esposito Valenti -the child’s mother- and Abigail Paez, his ex-partner. The decision of judges Alejandra Ongaro, Daniel Sáez Zamora and Andrés Olié was broadcast live on the Youtube channel of the Pampas Judiciary. The arguments of unconstitutionality of the defenses with respect to life imprisonment were rejected.
both defendants they were not present in the room, as they did in previous hearings. They remained in San Luis Penitentiary Complex No. 1, where they are locked up and refused to listen to the imposition of their sentences, which will be communicated through their defenses. Instead, Cristian, the victim’s father, and his grandfather Ramón were presentwhich promoted the request for justice in the case for more than a year.
Esposito Valentithe mother, had been declared on February 2 last as the material author and criminally responsible for the crime of homicide triple qualified by the link, treachery and cruelty.
At the same time, Paez was declared the material author and criminally responsible for the crime of doubly qualified homicide for treachery and cruelty. His situation was even more serious: she was also found guilty of the crime of sexual abuse with carnal access anally, aggravated for being the guardian and for having been committed against a minor under 18 years of age, taking advantage of the pre-existing situation of coexistence, as a continuing crime.
During the preliminary hearing of allegations that took place this Monday, February 13, the prosecutor Veronica Ferrero He asked that the two defendants be sentenced to life imprisonment because, in the face of the crimes committed, the Penal Code provides only for that sentence.
The plaintiff attorney representing the Dupuy family, Jose Mario Aguerridoadhered to the proposal of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, but added the requirement that the penalty be indefinite confinementan alternative provided for in article 52 of the Penal Code, in relation to article 80. Its foundations, among other reasons, were based on the extent of the damage caused to “an absolutely vulnerable boy”, adding that Lucio’s crime was the end of a process child abuse.
Lucio Dupuy was murdered on November 26, 2021 in the house on Allan Kardec street at 2,300 Santa Rosa, where he lived with his mother and the woman’s then partner.
According to Public Prosecutor’s Officerepresented in the debate by Veronica Ferrero, Monica Rivero and marcos saccothe defendants “physically assaulted, jointly” Lucio between 5:30 p.m. and 7:40 p.m. on November 26, 2021 in the house where they lived in Santa Rosa, causing him multiple injuries that caused his death, after a period of agony. His mother and her partner had said at the medical center that they took him, already dying, that a thief had broken into his house and hit the boy: it was a lie. Páez appeared with the boy in his arms in front of the medical room in the Río Atuel neighborhood, a short distance from his house. Several neighbors tried to revive Lucio, who finally lost his life at the Evita Hospital in the city.
Lucio died from internal bleeding caused by the beating he received. The torture of Lucio occurred months ago and the boy’s corpse reflected it. Before the magistrates at the trial, Juan Carlos Toulouse – the coroner who performed the autopsy on the body – reaffirmed his original conclusions: he said that the child died from a “fierce beating”. and that he presented “injuries in various parts of the body,” according to judicial sources.
He assured that there was been a victim of “recent and longstanding” sexual abuse, at the same time that he presented ‘a strong blow that affected his hip, gluteus and leg, with a date of 7 to 8 days’”.
“There was a specific attack that caused his death,” according to the autopsy presented in the case. In addition to the signs of abuse, he presented burns and bites.
Before his death at the Evita Hospital in Santa RosaLucio had received medical assistance at least five times in three months due to trauma in various health centers. The doctors who saw his injuries did not report anything. Neither did his kindergarten. The family judge Ana Clara Perez Ballester he had decided that Lucio should live with his murderers, without carrying out a socio-environmental study, after Lucio’s paternal aunt gave up on his possession.
At the beginning of this month, the bloc of Peronist deputies and the opposition benches from the province of La Pampa announced that they will promote a jury of prosecution for bad performance against the magistrate.
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