SAN FRANCISCO DE MACORÍS – In the midst of heartbreaking pain and asking for justice in the face of an event that has shocked and saddened the entire population waiting for a convincing explanation from the authorities, the one-and-a-half-year-old boy who drowned in the Comprehensive Early Childhood Center (CAIPI), of the Pueblo Nuevo Sector of this municipality.
”My soul is destroyed, my son never fell, I took good care of him at home, and I was sure that nothing like that would happen to him in that place, but now he will no longer be with his mother, I will never have peace of mind again My child has left me, I hope that justice is done by the authorities,” proclaimed the grieving mother, Carmen Álvarez Muñoz, who fathered her son with her partner, Manuel Castro Álvarez.
She narrated that she went to her work and when she was there they called her and told her that her son was in the San Vicente de Paul Hospital, but that when she arrived at the health center they gave her the terrible news that her son had drowned in a the center CAIPI“how could it be that they didn’t take care of it for me, while I was working, how safe does it feel, they must put in trained people”.
In the Las Mercedes cemetery, where he was given a Christian burial, only one voice was heard: “We hope that justice is done and that the fact is clarified to bring peace of mind to hundreds of people who have their children in assistance centers and who now they show distrust for what happened.”
Despite the fact that the authorities have reported that they are carrying out the corresponding investigations, so far they have not given details of how the event occurred, but the population remains waiting to receive an explanation of the real causes of how the child’s death could have occurred. .
Despite the fact that since the incident occurred, it has been reported that the minor drowned in a container of water, the version is rejected by the relatives who doubt that the infant died under the circumstances that have been indicated, so it is possible that A necropsy may have to be done to determine the real cause of death.
Senator shows condolences
Senator Franklin Romero appeared at the house where the body of the child was laid to rest, and he was very distressed and his voice broken by the case since he experienced the death of his grandson a year ago, and that made him remember that unfortunate event. to see a loved one go.
The senator of the Duarte province and spokesman for the Bloc of Senators of the PRM, expressed his great sorrow for the infant’s death while requesting that the circumstances that caused this unfortunate event be investigated.
“With deep regret, we have received the sad and heartbreaking news of the death of an infant at the Center CAIPI from the Pueblo Nuevo sector, from this municipality, we, the parents, are never prepared to receive news like this.”
