Lucio Dupuy (5) learned to ride in rollers in front of a small square in the Butaló neighborhood of Santa Rosa.
In that same place, where cars cannot pass through the streets and are named after native trees, he celebrated
his last birthday
on July 5, 2021.
The day after the reading of the verdict that found the boy's mother, Magdalena Espósito Valenti (25), and her girlfriend Abigail Páez (28) guilty of the crime,
the neighborhood is silent
.
It is already noon and the heat embraces.
It is a place of working people and the aroma of food begins to smell behind an Argentine flag that acts as a curtain on a window without glass, but with black bars.
The dogs bark at the slam on the door, and
Abigail's brother
appears.
"If he did something , he
will have to pay
(for his sister). That does not go with my principles. We are for the ass," says the 27-year-old in dialogue with
Clarín
.
And he adds: "As much as I am listening to music and cooking, we are wrong. The people who know us, give us a hug, contain us."
Lucio's murder hit that family that was unaware of the horror suffered by the baby, but had already suffered two losses.
"In 2016, a cousin committed suicide and shortly after, our 11-year-old sister in Mar del Plata," he explains.
The girl's suicide was in early January 2021 on the sixth floor of a building in Colón at 1800. The case was covered by the media.
Flowers at the gate of the house where Lucio Dupuy Santa Rosa died.
Photo: Marcelo Carroll
F. recognizes at the door of his house that he was always very close to Abigail.
"We were never problematic, zero violence and this affected us" and clarifies: "If I tell who my sister was, no one will believe me.
She changed a lot
for Magdalena. She was not sane, but I don't want to talk about her because they would have to talk to his parents. He had a lot of problems,
he was very anti-male
."
On this point, he agrees with the Dupuy family, who maintains that the homicide should have been aggravated by
"gender hatred"
.
But the judges did not take it into account when handing down the sentence.
"This is linked to the 'death to the macho'. Magdalena hated men, she was very rejected. You couldn't sit down and chat with her," she says about her sister-in-law.
And she remembers how lonely she was until she started dating Abigail: "I had no friends or direction. She came to Santa Rosa with my sister and
screwed up our lives
."
In 2018, Magdalena and Abigail met through social media, says F.
Magdalena's attitudes prompted Abigail's family to tell her not to continue with her, but they did not want to leave her.
"I didn't understand why my sister was still with her. A month before everything happened was my last talk with my sister at their house.
I told her to stay away
. A friend of my sister also told her. But she told us that they loved each other, but that wasn't love for me," he recalls.
F. also says that
"Maga never loved Lucio"
and that "she never took charge, to bring him to live with them, my sister went to talk to the judge."
And he clarifies: "She didn't work, she was lazy, my sister supported her."
He describes her as a very difficult woman, with no friends and who spoke ill of everyone, including her mother and Lucio's father, Christian.
"Magdalena worked for a few weeks in the casino and within a week what happened happened. She received a salary, and with that money she gave Lucio a baby as a gift," she tells
Clarín
.
And he emphasizes that she "put him in pink stockings and pants. She said that he was asking her but it was a lie. She wanted a girl, she didn't want him because she rejected men."
While the conversation with Abigail's brother was taking place, the condemned woman's mother arrived at the house, who also agreed to speak with
Clarín
.
News in development
Santa Rosa. special envoy
PS
look also
Lucio's crime: the audios, the contradictions and the mother's desire to "disappear", months before the crime
Crime of Lucio Dupuy: "The child was an object of satisfaction for both to beat and abuse him", the chilling revelations of the prosecutor
