The eight-year-old boy who had disappeared a week ago with his parents in Monte Maíz, in the province of Córdoba, when he was making a family reintegration visit,
was found this Sunday
in the town of Gobernador Virasoro, in the province of Misiones.
Carolina del Valle Zapata and Gustavo Maschio, the parents of the child on whom an arrest warrant fell,
were detained
.
They wanted to cross into Brazil with the minor.
The boy, who had been seen for the last time at a Monte Maíz service station when he was leaving for the town of Isla Verde with his biological parents,
is in good health
.
The child's maternal grandfather, who has custody, said that the parents had told him last Sunday that they were going to spend the day at a club and at 4:00 p.m. they would meet again so that the child could return home.
But that didn't happen.
The parents were in
a process of re-linking with their son
, after having experienced situations of family violence that led to the judicial decision to grant custody to his grandfather.
The minor had been seen with his parents, Carolina del Valle Zapata and Gustavo Maschio, at a service station in Monte Maíz.
"I went to look for him, I waited, he did not come, and I went by bicycle to the places that they had told me and they had not seen him in the property of the pools. I turned back. They had told me of a service station at the entrance of Puerto Maíz, where they said they were going to have breakfast. The camera (from the place) shows them leaving. They don't have a car," said the man in dialogue with
TN
.
The testimony of a truck driver who was with the minor and his parents in Chajarí, Entre Ríos, still unaware of the problems surrounding the family, was key to finding the 8-year-old boy.
According to him, he explained after learning about the situation, in statements to the authorities, the elders told him that they were "on their way to Brazil."
The official confirmation
The Córdoba Public Prosecutor's Office issued a statement this Sunday night in which it confirmed the finding of the minor.
"The Bell Ville Fair Investigation Prosecutor confirmed that the police forces, together with the National Gendarmerie, managed to find eight-year-old Gianluca Tiziano Maschio Zapata in Gobernador Virasoro, Corrientes, who had been taken by his parents on the twenty-second January in the town of Monte Maíz, province of Córdoba," it was reported.
The text also detailed that "the child's parents, Carolina del Valle Zapata and Gustavo Gerardo Maschio,
did not have personal care for the child
" and recalled that "after a family reintegration visit, Ricardo Daniel Zapata, grandfather on Who is the guardian of the child?
"Gianluca is in good condition and
the prosecutor's office is already working for his transfer to Córdoba
," closed the Cordovan Public Prosecutor's Office.
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