09/03/2021 3:08
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 09/03/2021 3:08 AM
The 11-year-old boy murdered this Tuesday by his mother, in the Buenos Aires province of Pilar, received
17 stab wounds
, while the defendant used two knives to commit the attack in which her nine-year-old daughter was also injured.
According to a new examination by the San Isidro Forensic Medical Corps, the defendant, Verónica Beatriz Gaitán (30),
is "lucid and oriented in time and space,"
so she is in a position to be investigated by the prosecutor in the case.
Anyway, the sources clarified that the woman will be evaluated in greater depth by
psychiatric and psychological experts.
Meanwhile, the doctors who performed the autopsy at the San Fernando Judicial Morgue established that Gaitán's son, Thiago Emanuel López, had 17 stab wounds, 15 stabbing and 2 cutting;
and that he
died of hypovolemic shock caused by the multiple stab wounds
.
In addition, they reported that the fatal wounds were found in the intercostal and pectoral areas, and that the victim suffered a cut in the aorta artery, in addition to presenting
signs of defense
in his upper limbs.
"
At the crime scene, we kidnapped two knives
. On the one hand, the large kitchen knife that the defendant had in her hand at the time of her arrest, but we also picked up a table knife from the floor that apparently she also used and had to change because the blade is bent, "one of the researchers described to Télam.
The same source said that when the police entered the home, the accused "
was pricking her chest"
with the white-handled blade, although without seriously injuring herself.
For his part, the prosecutor in charge of the case, Andrés Quintana, from the Functional Instruction Unit 2 (UFI) of Pilar, will investigate the accused for "homicide and injuries aggravated by the relationship", crimes that provide for the
prison sentence perpetual
.
Although the medical examination this afternoon showed that the woman is in a position to give a statement, in a first psychiatric opinion carried out this Tuesday, the experts concluded that she presented "a
certain and imminent risk for herself and third parties."
For this reason, the alleged filicide continued this Wednesday in police custody at the Sanguinetti de Pilar Hospital.
Regarding the motive for the homicide, it emerged from sources in the investigation that, before being arrested, knife in hand and with the corpse of her son at her side, Gaitán told the police: "
A bird told me to kill them all and to kill me
.
"
In addition, psychologists experts in children and victim assistance were going to evaluate today the 9-year-old daughter of the accused who was stabbed yesterday in the attack, but survived and was admitted,
out of danger
, in the hospital.
The crime
The incident occurred during the morning of this Wednesday in a house on 2200 De la Cárcova street, in the town of Villa Rosa, Pilar district, in the north of the suburbs.
The episode was discovered when two policemen who were touring the area aboard a patrol car saw the
injured and bloody
9-year-old girl
calling for help
in the street.
The uniformed men asked for support and entered the property, where there are two houses, one on the front, where the father-in-law of the accused lives, a 75-year-old man;
and the one in the background, where they found Gaitán with
a blade in his hand and multiple stains of blood
, along with his murdered 11-year-old son.
According to sources, the woman was locked up for a while, until her husband, a bricklayer who worked in a country house in the area, also arrived at the place, who opened the door for the police so that they could talk for a while with the accused until they managed to disarm and reduce it.
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