The girl suffered from pre-existing conditions and died of a “respiratory infection”. Her mother was arrested.
Source: Clarin
Those who know Vanesa Alejandra Mansilla (27) say that she “never loved” her 5-year-old daughter Milagros, who was born prematurely and was bedridden. She said that she made a “difference” with her other two children, ages 3 and 7, especially with her youngest. That she was going out at night and leaving them alone. That the baby was never sanitized.
But those people never imagined what was going to happen. The girl, who suffered from pre-existing illnesses, died of a “Respiratory infection“, as determined by the autopsy performed at the headquarters of the San Martín Forensic Medical Corps, which could not establish the date of death.
What did Manilla do? He put the body in a bag and then in a box, filled it with cement that he took from a nearby construction site, in the San Martín district, and put a lid on it. Then she left it as a nightstand in her room. They believe, for several months.
The woman told the police that she adopted this attitude because she did not know what to do. “I panic“, he excused himself.
Everything was discovered from the denunciation of “whereabouts inquiry” that the girl’s father did on October 24.
The officers of the Departmental Investigation Delegation (DDI) of San Martín arrived this Monday at the house on Catamarca street at 3900, in the town of San Andrés, where they came across the horrifying scene.
A woman put the body of her 5-year-old daughter in a box and left it as a nightstand in her bedroom.
“The box with the body was used as a bedside table in his bedroom“, he told telam an investigator.
“It was a girl who was born prematurely, who suffered from multiple pre-existing conditions and had a tracheostomy and a nasogastric tube,” he added.
Prosecutor Daniel Cangelosi, in charge of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 3 of San Martín, planned to investigate Mansilla this Tuesday in the framework of an investigation for a possible “homicide“.
However, more skills and actions were expected to determine if the woman murdered her daughter or if she died naturally.
“So far there is no record that there have been previous complaints of gender violence,” added the spokesperson.
The girl’s father reported that Mansilla told him that he had given the girl in custody to the local service in San Martín, due to the poor conditions in which she lived at home.
After relatives insistently pressured her to reveal where Milagros was, the woman finally acknowledged that she had died.
“He said that everything happened one afternoon, after bathing his three children. He went to take a nap and when he woke up he went to see the girl and she had already passed away. He said he had runny nose and drool in his mouth, that he choked“explained one researcher.
As far as he was able to learn, Mansilla had been interviewed by social workers from the municipality, to whom he told them that he had not told his family beforehand what he had done “because he was afraid”, although he did not explain why nor did he appear anguished.
According to the first testimonies in the case, the last time they saw the girl was July 30, for the birthday of one of his little brothers. Vanesa told her family that Milagros was not at her house because she had gone with her father. A lie that uncovered a hideous maneuver.
After Mansilla’s arrest, the two children were temporarily protected by their maternal grandmother.
