A mother and her partner were arrested and accused of beating their two-year-old baby to death. Both took her to a hospital in Merlo saying that she died from falling out of bed, but the autopsy revealed that they beat her to death and that he suffered for almost 24 hours until he died.
The violent death happened on Tuesday of last week on José Ingenieros street, in the town of Merlo, in the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina), but it was announced in the last hours.
The day after, Wednesday, the couple formed by Milagros Torres, 22, and Darío Eduardo Chamorro, 26, appeared at the General Zonal Hospital for Agudos Héroes de Malvinas with a deceased two-year-old baby.
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According to the mother, Milena Natasha Torres died as a result of a blow to the floor after falling out of bed due to carelessness while she was cooking. “He fell off the bed frame and died.”, the woman told the doctors, according to the media outlet ‘0223’.
Faced with this situation, the hospital specialists noted that despite Milagros’s account, the girl had bumps and bruises on one of her legs and in the abdomen area.
He fell off the bed frame and died.
For this reason, they decided to call the Police and managed to retain the couple. The prosecutor of the Functional Unit No. 8 Adriana Suárez Corripio ordered an autopsy in order to find out if he actually died from a simple blow or there was something else behind it. Under the title of “Investigation of causes of death”, a case was opened against both.
Thus, the results of the study indicated that the minor was beaten on Tuesday and it took her 24 hours to die due to internal bleeding from a liver laceration. In addition, the little girl had clear injuries to the head, abdomen, and leg.
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Given this evidence, the judge in the case ordered the arrest of the mother and her partner, Milena’s stepfather, and the case was rebranded as “homicide aggravated by the bond” for Miracles and “simple homicidefor Dario.
The woman also has two other children.
The Nation (Argentina) / GDA
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