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The woman who let her baby die alone with a bottle and some cookies is sentenced to 16 years in prison

2020-12-01T08:57:19.001Z


The young woman abandoned the 17-month-old girl in a darkened room of her apartment for about a month without returning to the house


Sara, from behind, with her lawyer during the trial at the Provincial Court of Malaga.Jorge Zapata / EFE

The Provincial Court of Malaga has sentenced Sara to 16 years in prison, the woman who in 2018 abandoned her 17-month-old daughter to death.

The presiding magistrate Carmen Soriano has held her responsible for a crime of murder with treachery for helplessness, which carries 15 years in prison, as well as a crime of temporary abandonment of minors, which includes another year.

During the trial, held two weeks ago - the popular jury found her guilty - the Prosecutor's Office had requested those 16 years of sentence and the defense had given its consent, since the woman confessed the facts.

"I'm sorry.

I regret it a lot, "said the young woman, who is now 23 years old, in her turn to speak.

"Sara is going to assume her responsibility and is going to serve many years in prison," her lawyer, José Luis Rodríguez Candela, had said earlier.

In the ruling, the court considers it proven that Sara abandoned her 17-month-old daughter in the bedroom of the apartment where she lived on Calle Viento, in the La Goleta neighborhood of Malaga.

He left it on the double bed, with the blind down and the door closed, "in dark conditions and with only a bottle and some cookies," says the document.

Subsequently, the woman locked the door of the house "without ever returning to the home during her daughter's life," a time that lasted about a month.

All this, according to the sentence, he did "accepting" that in this way he was going to end the life of his daughter, who was "absolutely incapable of both defending herself and fending for herself."

Following her action, Sara lied about the girl's whereabouts.

He did not communicate this to his friends or to his partner, Emilio, with whom he had a romantic relationship that he himself defined as "sporadic" in the trial.

Nor did he notify them of the situation of deprivation of water or food in which he had left her, as they stressed in their statements.

When her surroundings asked her about the little girl, she insisted that she was in the care of someone else.

Meanwhile ―the sentence maintains― Sara “continued her nightly social life, even celebrating a party for her twentieth birthday” at the end of November 2018.

Tired of trying to contact her from Morocco with no luck, when Sara's brothers traveled to Malaga to ask about their daughter.

First, she told them that a woman was taking care of her and later, after an argument, she acknowledged "that she had left her daughter at home alone a month ago."

After that, he fled.

First, she contacted a friend and finally her partner, in whose house she was detained by the National Police as early as the early morning of December 1.

Hours earlier, Local Police officers had entered Sara's home with her brothers, where they found the girl's body on the floor of the room, which occurred between one and five days after the abandonment.

Sara had arrived in Malaga in the spring of 2017 from Morocco, fleeing social pressure due to an unwanted pregnancy - the father never recognized her as his - and after being a victim of sexist violence.

On May 4 of that year, she gave birth to Camelia at the comarca de la Axarquía hospital, in the town of Vélez-Málaga.

There he then resided with his brothers until a year later he moved to the capital of Malaga.

She began working as a waitress and public relations at the Bubbles nightclub, in the center of the city, maintaining an intense nightlife, which continued until her arrest.

"I left her locked in the room, with a bottle and cookies, and I did not return to the house anymore," she confessed at the police station hours later.

No one, not even the forensics who testified at the trial, knows what went through the young woman's head at that time.

The speciesists spoke of a "time block" and highlighted a personality marked by "affective immaturity, marked egocentricity, narcissistic behaviors, a certain inability for self-criticism and impulsiveness."

They also assured that there were signs of having shown "regret, feelings of guilt and anxiety" and stressed that their reintegration after serving the 18-year sentence will be "very positive."

Source: elparis

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