Ramón Dupuy, the grandfather of the 5-year-old boy murdered in November 2021 in Santa Rosa, considered that it was “a bad decision” that the trial court had acquitted the boy’s mother for the sexual abuse for which she had been accused by prosecutors and for the complaint, although he expressed his satisfaction because both “will receive life imprisonment.”
“It’s a bad decision for me. The sex toys had the DNA of both of them, that is, the evidence was there (for both to be convicted of the abuse),” Ramón said at the exit from the Santa Rosa Judicial Center, where minutes before he had heard the damning verdict.
Anyway, expressed agreement that both the child’s mother, Magdalena Espósito Valenti, and her partner, Abigail Páez, were considered the perpetrators of a crime for which they are likely to receive a life sentence.
“You did this. the support of the people was incredible. Now the fight for childhood begins“said the man, while receiving dozens of greetings from the people who went to the courts to demand justice.
“Justice is perpetual”, “Perpetual is separate”, were some of the cries of the protesters who accompanied Ramón Dupuy, who walked with tears in his eyes, while wearing a necklace with a medal with the image of his grandchild.
The grandfather of Lucio Dupuy, the child murdered in November 2021 in the city of Santa Rosa, had said before hearing the sentence that with the reading of the verdict of the trial for the crime of his grandson “a cycle closes”, to the time that he asked that “the ruling be fair for such an aberration”.
“A cycle closes and a fight begins. We are going to fight for the remaining children. With ‘Lucito’ we could not arrive on time. We want the ruling to be fair for such an aberration. For destroying a family and an entire town by killing Lucio the way they did it,” Ramón Dupuy said Thursday in dialogue with TN.
The man made reference to the decision of the defendants not to be in the sentence and He admitted that he would have liked them to be present “so that they feel the sentence on their faces.”
“We ask that they not stay together, but the capacity of the jail does not allow them to be separated. They have a pavilion for themselves. I want them to be sentenced and separated”Ramon Dupuy
In turn, Ramón stated that Esposito and Páez spend their stay in jail as “a honeymoon and vacation.”
“They have a television, they have a stereo, they have a box spring, they make their own food. They eat better than the other inmates. They are queens. Many times it was criticized that they were beaten up, it’s a lie. They can’t touch them in there.” said Dupuy.
In this sense, Lucio’s grandfather claimed: “We ask that they not stay together, but the capacity of the prison does not allow them to be separated. They have a pavilion for themselves. I want them to be sentenced and separated. The rest is in the hands of my lawyer”.
By last, Ramón considered that the murder of his grandson will be a “hinge case” for the rights of children in Argentina.
“It will be a before and after. It cannot have died the way it happened without changing anything. We have to look closely at childhood,” he concluded.
