A four-year-old boy was beaten to death in his home in the Buenos Aires district of Berazategui and for the fact the victim’s mother and stepfather were arrested, who initially assured that the victim had accidentally fallen into the bathtub, sources reported this Saturday judicial and police.
The event occurred on Thursday in a house located on 508 Street between 616 and 617, in the Buenos Aires town of El Pato, in said party in the southern area of Greater Buenos Aires.
Judicial and police spokesmen informed Télam that, according to what was initially assured by a woman, whom they identified as Victoria Godoy (30), her son Renzo Godoy (4) was in a bathtub and, in an oversight while attending her baby, the child slipped and hit her hard.
The woman took her seriously injured eldest son to Sanitary Unit 11 in El Pato, where he was finally admitted dead with multiple bruises on different parts of his body.
As a result, health personnel alerted the 5th precinct of what happened. of Berazategui and later the prosecutor Gabriela Mateos, in charge of the decentralized Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 3 of that jurisdiction, intervened.
Prosecutor Mateos ordered that an autopsy be carried out on the child’s body, the result of which was that he died as a result of the beatings, while the autopsy doctor assured that the bruises on the corpse could never have been caused by a fall in the bathtub. informed judicial and police sources.
As a result, the judicial official changed the legal classification of the fact from “investigation of causes of death” to “homicide aggravated by the relationship” and ordered the arrest of the child’s mother and stepfather, who was also in the house at moment of the fact
Prosecutor Mateos investigated those apprehended in the last hours and both refused to testify, after which they were formally detained, judicial sources reported.
Meanwhile, residents of the place set fire to the house of the defendants after learning of the child’s crime.
