Monday, February 13, 2023 | 2:21 p.m.
The grandfather of Lucio Dupuy, the 5-year-old boy murdered in November 2021 in La Pampa, assured that in the hearing of caesura where the sentences will be requested for the victim’s mother, Magdalena Espósito Valenti, and her partner, Abigail Páez, Already declared responsible for the crime, they will formally request that both be separated in their place of detention.
“We will ask that there be no benefits and that they be urgently separated. It bothers me a lot because they shouldn’t be together. We spent the whole year asking for them to be separated”, said Ramón Dupuy this morning to the Crónica TV channel and from Santa Rosa.
Regarding the hearing that will be held today for the parties to request the penalties, the man stated that he does not know if he will enter the debate room because for him “it is to remove all the same suffering and the same pain.”
“I always say that Lucio was not killed a year and two months and days ago, they killed him yesterday. We live with the same pain, the wound is latent and will never close. We are trying to cope with it, ”he added.
The victim’s grandfather also commented that he does not understand why the court did not also sentence them with the aggravating circumstance of gender hatred and about that, he stated that “the psychological and psychiatric expertise and the chats between them point to hatred of the opposite gender.”
He also pointed out that “I could never forgive” the two already convicted because “they killed a defenseless 5-year-old child.”
Asked about Páez’s statements, when in his last words before the verdict he said “I know that Lucio forgave me”, the grandfather of the murdered child replied that he felt “disgusted” and added: “Lucio cannot forgive because he is not there”.
Finally, the man acknowledged that in relation to the case “the guilt is felt for not having realized” what his grandson suffered, although he pointed out that he is clear that “the responsibility” was not theirs, but the now convicted.
