In the Museo del Prado, in Madrid, you can see (not without a certain horror) the blackest work of the so-called "black series" of Goya's paintings:
Saturn devouring his son
.
Although the whole scene is gruesome, it is the eyes of the cannibal god that are
terrifying
.
His gaze lost in the depth of madness.
Monstrous eyes that seem
to look towards horror, at the same time that they are horrifying.
Saturn devoured his children because he feared they would dethrone him, as he had done with his father Uranus.
Mythology.
But Goya transmits the human fear before
the incomprehensible:
we never understand that a father -or a mother- kills his son.
Saturn devouring his son, Goya's work in the Prado Museum.
The horror of Goya's canvas -which was previously a mural- flew through time and space to a place at the end of the world called La Pampa, where a couple of women will hear the sentence on Thursday for the beating of the son of one of them.
Lucius, 5 years old.
The accusation maintains that both - or either of them, with the consent of the other - subjected the baby to ferocious beatings because they were enraged that the creature was
a nuisance in their daily lives.
An annoying thorn in the privacy of the couple.
The idea was so installed that Lucio's grandmother asked the Justice that the mother and the partner of the murdered child
are not together in jail
if they are convicted.
They killed him to be alone and that would be the consummation of his desire, interprets the woman.
As if there was a longing to be imprisoned, but alone.
Dams, but without the bother of the baby beaten to a pulp.
In a way,
free, even if they are deprived of their freedom.
The madness that led Lucio to a hospital when he was already dead exceeds, however, the murderous pathology of the women who were in charge of his care, if the court ends up validating that hypothesis.
Also the
sexual abuse
to which the baby was subjected, according to the experts.
These - which led to request the aggravating circumstance for
"gender hatred"
- make Goya's scene, next to Lucio's horror, seem like a naive children's story.
That private madness had passed
many times
under the public scrutiny.
The injured boy, with his mother and stepmother, in a public place.
Before the ferocious crime, there was a skein of insensitive bureaucracy that does not react even when it is hit with heinous murders.
A judge had given possession of Lucio to Magdalena Espósito, his mother, already in a relationship with Abigail Páez.
They denounce her for not demanding socio-environmental studies.
We see it in the movies.
A social worker arrives and the family prepares for one of the big dates of their lives.
Where will the baby sleep?
Who will live with him?
What is necessary for a suitable environment.
Even after that blind possession, the baby went
to the emergency room five times.
Always hurt by beatings, bites or burns.
And they always sent him back to hell.
The night of his death, some neighbors tried to revive him in the street after the police
ignored
calls for help.
Lucio took drawings to the Garden in which, according to the experts, he
"screamed for help"
.
There are too many photos of him hurt.
Terror
after terror
is to think that Lucio would continue to suffer the beatings of blind dementia if he had not been murdered.
That nothing and no one would save him from the unstoppable hell.
It is possible that, if we had not known about Lucio by his death, he would still be there, holding his breath in the abyss.
How many pike are we not seeing now?
Outside of private horror, few things show the
precariousness
of a country like the automaton apathy of the deaf, indolent bureaucracy, in the midst of alarm bells sounding everywhere.
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