The Seventh Section of the Provincial Court of Alicante, based in Elche, has sentenced a man to permanent reviewable prison for beating to death a seven-month-old baby, the son of his sentimental partner, in the aforementioned city.
The sentence, handed down in accordance with the verdict issued by a popular jury, absolves the minor’s mother of the crime, since it has not been proven that she accepted “the possible consequences for the physical integrity” of the child, “including his own life.” , meant leaving him in the care” of the condemned.
The magistrate who presided over the court has sentenced the parent, like her sentimental partner, to one year in prison for a crime of ill-treatment. However, she absolves both of the crime of habitual ill-treatment.
According to the account of proven facts, on May 15, 2021, while they were in a public establishment, the now convicted man reprimanded the minor “with disproportionate violence” and gave him “a strong slap in the face.”
This action was witnessed by the victim’s mother, who, “far from protecting her son or recriminating the action” against her partner, “tolerated it,” the sentence specifies. Hence, both have been convicted of such specific ill-treatment.
Nine days later, on May 24, the woman went to work and left the child in the care of the other defendant at the family home, located in Elche. The man then hit the boy on the head with great violence up to four times, causing injuries that caused his death.
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The sentence, which can be appealed before the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community, imposes a reviewable permanent prison sentence on the convicted person as the author of a crime of murder with aggravating circumstances of treachery and kinship and obliges him to compensate the biological father of the baby with 25,000 euros for moral damages.
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