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He was sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing a baby: he said he was playing and did not measure force

2021-02-24T19:40:52.337Z


The 11-month-old boy suffered multiple skull fractures. The victim's mother was acquitted.


02/24/2021 16:30

  • Clarín.com

  • Society

Updated 02/24/2021 16:30

He was 11 months old and his death shocked the residents of Oran, back in September 2019:

they had destroyed his little head

and to save him they took him on a medical flight to the city of Salta.

It was all in vain.

The baby's mother and stepfather were charged with the aggravated homicide.

One year and five months later, Justice

sentenced the man to

15 years in prison and acquitted the mother

.

After the allegations, the couple had spoken before the judges of Chamber I of the Trial Court of Oran: the man

apologized to the woman

, repeated that it was an accident and that he was very sorry.

He always claimed that he

was playing with the baby

and did not measure his strength: according to his version, the creature turned in the air and hit the back of the bed.

Fifteen years in prison for a man for the murder of an 11-month-old baby https://t.co/vG8lIK48z9 # Oran #Justicia pic.twitter.com/pJg3778eJW

- Judicial Branch Salta (@prensaju) February 24, 2021

The woman told the magistrates that she

did not intend

for that to happen to her son.

The truth is that judges Mario Maldonado, Edgardo Laurenci and Aldo Primucci sentenced José María Lucema, 24 years old and nicknamed “

El Colombiano

”, to a penalty of 15 years in effective prison as the material and criminal perpetrator of the crime of homicide, it was informed.

Johana Celeste Juárez (24), the mother of the baby and who had come to trial for the crime of "murder doubly qualified by the bond and with treachery", was acquitted for the benefit of the doubt.

His immediate release was ordered.

In the allegations, the Public Prosecutor's Office had requested life

imprisonment

for both, considering them co-authors of the crime.

The case

It all started on September 9, 2019, when Juárez and Lucema took the baby to the hospital in Orán: he

had multiple skull fractures

.

He was so serious that they decided to transfer him on a medical flight to the city of Salta, but he did not survive.

The couple

contradicted each other

when they had to explain how the creature had suffered the fractures to its head that caused its death.

Both were accused of

treacherously

killing the baby

.

During the trial, “El Colombiano” asked to speak and said that on the day of the tragedy he was playing with his partner's baby, although he did not measure the force with which he was propelling him into the air, he turned and

fell against the head of the bed

, which was made of wood.

The

Critical Voices

portal

 detailed that, after the tremendous blow, Lucema said that the baby began to cry and that she raised him to calm him.

Then, she put him to bed and entertained with housework.

When the mother entered the room, she noticed that her son

had purple lips.

According to the convicted man's testimony, he gave

 the boy

mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

and when they saw that he did not react they took him to the hospital.

They couldn't save it.

That baby would now be two years and four months.

LM

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