After the trial for the crime of Lucio DupuyThis Thursday, the court found the minor’s mother, Magdalena Espósito Valenti, and her sentimental partner, Abigail Páez, guilty.
To the mother of Lucio Dupuythe justice declared her as the material author of the “homicide triply qualified by the cruelty, the treachery and the link”, while Paéz, the main aggressor of the minorwas accused of being the material author of the “homicide qualified by cruelty and treachery and by seriously insulting sexual abuse.”
Although the court found both women guilty, for now the sentence they will face is unknown, it will be announced on February 13. However, both the prosecutors in charge of the accusation as the relatives of Lucio Dupuy They ask to be sentenced to life imprisonment..
If so, the defendants aged 24 and 27 would spend 35 years in prison. In any case, in accordance with the provisions of Article 13 of the Penal Law, before finishing the sentence charged against them, they could be released under certain conditions.
The defendants were not present in the courtroom of the Santa Rosa Judicial Center, but they listened to the reading of the verdict, virtually, from the San Luis Province Detention Center, where they are being held.
The magistrates argued that on November 26, 2021, the two women “physically assaulted Lucio Dupuy, causing him multiple injuries that later caused his death.”
However, it was also emphasized that the younger He had suffered multiple injuries in the past and that the last one, the one that took his life, was caused by Abigail Páez.
The features of the defendants
The court also explained that the women “have a perverse personality, characterized by traits of irritability, aggressiveness and impulsiveness, absence of guilt, remorse and lack of empathy, capacity for manipulation, deceit and simulation”.
Meanwhile, the victim’s relatives, despite having assured that they felt relief with the sentence, hope that the sentence is exemplary, so that there really is justice for the minor’s crime.
