The Civil Guard is investigating the death of a newborn baby who was found buried on February 18 in a field in Águilas (Murcia). A young woman of about 18 years of age, who was identified as the mother of the newborn, is being investigated for interrupting the pregnancy outside the permitted periods, as confirmed to EL PAÍS by a spokesperson for the armed institute.
The baby’s body, according to the same sources, did not show signs of violence at first sight, but based on the evidence collected over these days, the researchers believe that it was not born spontaneously, but rather that the woman interrupted the volunteer her pregnancy. When the fetus exceeds 22 weeks of gestation, which is the maximum term established by law to abort, the woman would have committed a crime criminalized in article 145 of the Criminal Code, which in point 2 indicates that “the woman who produces her abortion or consents to another person causing it, outside the cases permitted by law, will be punished with a fine of six to twenty-four months.”
The investigation is still open and the woman must declare as investigated in the courts of Lorca (Murcia) on a date yet to be determined.
The newborn’s body was found by a married couple who were walking through the area known as Aunt Petra’s cave, near the old Renfe workshops. It is an area that the residents of this coastal municipality of some 35,000 inhabitants usually use to play sports and walk their pets.
Sources familiar with the case explain that the baby’s body was buried in a mound covered by earth and stones. Her mother was located at the Rafael Méndez de Lorca hospital, where she needed medical and psychological care and where she would have admitted having buried her son, the same sources indicate.
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