Crime of Lucio Dupuy: there will be a sentence today but the investigation continues for a key responsibility

This Thursday from 12 in the judicial city of La Pampa, in Santa Rosa, the Court made up of Alejandra Ongaro, Andrés Olié and Daniel Sáez Zamora will give its verdict on the

, the 5-year-old boy who died on November 21, 2021.

In the case, their mother,

, and her girlfriend, Abigail Páez

, face a request for conviction for

If the judges agree with the prosecution's claim and the lawsuit representing Cristian Dupuy, Lucio's father,

.

In any case,

, in two weeks.

The defenses seek

: that of Espósito Valenti argued that it could not be proven or there were doubts that she was present at the time of the fatal beating, while that of Páez stated that he did not intend to kill and requested a conviction for a less serious crime.

But this case will not be closed with this sentence and

that linked

that, if they had not occurred, could have led this story to another outcome, are not ruled out.

The administrative summaries

In January 2022, some 40 days after the case became known, the La Pampa

(FIA) opened a series of administrative proceedings in the Health and Education areas, and in the provincial Police.

All these summaries are still ongoing, according to

what prosecutor Juan Carlos Carola told

he explained.

As this newspaper was able to learn, at least the doctors who received Lucio in each of the five admissions he had in the hospital, a teacher and also police officers were added.

In this case, Carola did not rule out that the investigation "could lead to more summaries."

The FIA ​​had requested at the beginning of last year the records of Lucio's passage by state, municipal or provincial organizations.

Reports were requested from the General Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents, the Ministry of Social Development, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health.

Abigail Páez and Magdalena Esposito Valenti.

Both could receive a life sentence.

The investigation seeks to determine if from the medical attention Lucio received "

arose , which triggered the

" and if "in the exercise of public functions, agents and/or officials acted with reinforced due diligence , within the framework of current regulations”, as well as with regard to the teachers of the kindergarten that the boy attended.

In the case of the Ministry of Health, the FIA ​​requested that "it be reported whether in the Health Information System or other records, there are incomes for the child's medical care. If so, report the date, reason for consultation and treating professional."

From these details emerged all the attention that Lucio received in the health system, in addition to being admitted on the night of November 21, 2021, when he was already dead at the Evita de Santa Rosa hospital.

Photos of the boy on social media reveal a blow to the eye and a broken hand and finger in different stages.

Even in one of the images, in which she is with her mother and her stepmother,

.

Lucio with a sling on his right arm, in a photo with his mother and stepmother.

The last time he was seen before his death was on March 13, 2021, when he was attended by the Emergency Medical Service.

The date coincides with one of the most resonant tweets of Abigail Páez.

“

This is being a (false) mother, wey.

Abort it,” she tweeted that same day.

It is also stated that Espósito Valenti and his partner Páez carried out

in the Directorate of Gender and Diversity Policies of the Municipality of Santa Rosa "in matters of communication, food, economic, labor and information about services for LGTBIQ+ people ".

The police are also on the lookout.

But a separate file was opened for which reports were requested from the Pico and Santa Rosa police stations and the 101 emergency service.

In this case, it points to

after the call to line 101 of the brother of a neighbor of Lucio, on the night of August 25.

The call

the boy was receiving.

But the excuse given by the police chief of La Pampa was that "the brother (of the neighbor) that he called gave

."

"They did not give it much importance and they did not even deign to verify how the child was at that moment," said the young man who made the complaint, whose identity was revealed by the provincial police although he should have remained anonymous.

Lawsuits against the State and the judge

"We are not going to talk about the administrative proceedings initiated until after the sentence," José Mario Aguerrido, the Dupuys' lawyer,

told

He also did not want to give details of the actions that can be initiated against the province.

But he had already anticipated a few days ago that “we are going to file a lawsuit against the Pampas State.

A part of the team is putting it together, but the Dupuy family has already made the decision to make a presentation before international courts.

For state breaches, the provincial government could

at the United Nations (UN) or the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

On the other hand, the pro-life NGO Fundación Mas Vida filed a complaint on Tuesday at the Primary Care Unit of the Public Prosecutor's Office of La Pampa against

.

Pérez Ballester, head of the Family and Minor Court No. 1 of La Pampa, was

.

She was denounced for breach of the duties of a public official.

Judge Ana Pérez Ballester, denounced for granting possession of Lucio to his mother and her partner.

Ramón Dupuy, the boy's grandfather, had also targeted Judge Ballester, who allowed Lucio to stay with his attackers despite the

and having been admitted to the emergency room at least five times with

of of the

Until then, custody of the child was held by Lucio's uncles.

"When custody was handed over to them, they submitted them to all possible environmental studies, but when they tried to hand him over to the couple responsible for his torture and death,

," claimed Raúl Magnasco, head of Fundación Mas Vida .

The evidence against the mother and stepmother

While these complaints and investigations progress, attention will be focused this Thursday on what the judges rule regarding Espósito Valenti and Páez.

Cristian, Lucio's father, called a rally at the entrance to the courts to demand justice for the little boy.

“This February 2, when I am in that room waiting for the verdict of the judges,

, so that the request for justice is heard very loudly.

Because that day more than any other I will need the strength of all of you... that day will be the day that I have to let go... 

," he wrote in a post on Facebook.

The main evidence on which the prosecution and the complaint support their accusation is the autopsy of the child's body carried out by the coroner Juan Carlos Toulousse.

In it, he determined that Lucio received blows to the extremities and body that caused the accumulation of blood and fluid in the brain and rupture of the liver, and the bleeding that he had caused the accumulation of blood in the stomach area.

The autopsy

: she had a bruise on her back with a print mark from the sole of the shoe that Páez was wearing on the night of the crime.

The autopsy also proved that the boy was

.

Based on it, the prosecutors affirm that "both sexually abused the child with carnal access on repeated occasions, using, among other things, as a means of committing sexual abuse, the introduction of a rubber-like phallic element (dildo) through the anus, as well as biting of his genitals, which produced 

in the child ”.

In a

that they kidnapped from the couple's house, they found DNA from Páez, Espósito Valenti and also from Lucio.

Lucio's grandfather, at a rally in the National Congress in November, one year after his death.

Photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi

For the Dupuys' lawyer, this murder was

, and he asked that this aggravating circumstance be considered.

“Lucio was killed for being a man.

And we prove it," says Aguerrido, who provided 6,000 sheets of screenshots of the chats between Lucio's mother and the girlfriend as proof, in which there were expressions that defined the boy as a

.

For all this, the Dupuys will ask that if the sentence against Esposito Valenti and Páez is confirmed, they serve it separately.

Until now, the women are in pretrial detention in Penitentiary Unit No. 1 of San Luis.

“What they wanted was to be together.

That's why Lucio was a nuisance.

The chats say so.

That they stay together is like agreeing with them, helping them achieve their goal,” said Silvia Gómez, Lucio's grandmother.

And she demanded that the judges hand down an exemplary sentence this Thursday:

. "

Collaborators: Gustavo Laurnagaray and Mara Resio

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