Jenny Clarivel Aliaga Flores, 24 years oldreceived the maximum sentence for the crime of infanticide this Sunday. The victim is her four-year-old daughter, who lost her life due to strangulation on January 10 in the District of Palcas, in La Paz.
It was the 8th Judgment Court of the city of La Paz who ordered the sentence of 30 years in prison without right a pardon for the accused, a sentence that she must serve in the Miraflores prison in La Paz.
“The most important elements of evidence that the Prosecutor presented in oral proceedings were the autopsy protocol that establishes that the minor had a violent and unnatural death as the mother claimed, ocular technical inspection record that reveals that the parent was the only person who was with the girl before her death, in addition to the complementary report of the autopsy of the biological samples extracted from the infant’s body, among other elements that showed that the woman He took his daughter’s life,” said William Alave Laura, departmental prosecutor of La Paz.
Was the maternal grandfather of the victim who filed the complaint for the act on January 11 and police officers arrived at the El Valle de las Ánimas area in the district of Palca in La Paz, to remove the body of a four-year-old girl with signs of violence
According to the Police investigation, on January 10, the day the crime occurred, the girl was with her mother, who stated that the minor was in poor health with a cough and that the causes of her death were probably “natural.”
“In the early hours of that day, the girl was seen by a neighbor and one of her maternal uncles, later the mother arrived at 09:00 hours with her sister-in-law to cook and after lunch, both fell asleep with the girl. Later, in the afternoon, the sister-in-law left the room heading to a court, a moment that her mother took advantage of to take the life of her daughter. She then told her relatives that the girl died as a result of the cough she had, “said the prosecutor in the case, Dubravka Jordán,
The medicolegal autopsy, carried out by the Forensic Research Institute (IDIF), determined that the girl’s cause of death was cerebral anoxiabronchial aspiration, hemorrhagic infiltration in the bifurcation of the right carotid artery compatible with strangulation.