It was 19:45 p.m. on Monday when Jonathan Gauna (37) and Ximena Mogaburo (37) got into their Renault Megane to go to church with their one-year-old baby. They did not make three blocks since they left their house that they were surprised by a motorcycle that, without lights and at high speed, hit the passenger door.
Inside was Ximena, with Aitana in her arms. The impact was so strong that the car was destroyed. The girl, who was in the passenger seat, flew and ended up on the asphalt, next to a cord.
"My dad started looking for her everywhere in the car and couldn't find her. There he came out and saw her that she was next to the cordon of the sidewalk, "described Milagros Gauna, the eldest of the five siblings that the couple had.
Aitana had turned one year old on April 27. He died when a stolen motorcycle hit the car in which he was with his parents, in Isidro Casanova.
In those seconds of desperation, in which Ximena was injured and unconscious and in which Jonathan did not know where his daughter, Enzo Sotelo (23) and Ángel Joel Colche (22), who were on the Bajaj Rouser 250 motorcycle, were, they decided to escape and abandon the victims.
Milagros "cried all she had to cry" to "be strong," to contain her mom, she said. On Tuesday, Ximena regained consciousness at the Paroissien Hospital in La Matanza, and they had to tell her that Aitana had died.
The baby, who had turned one year old on April 27, arrived in serious condition at the health center after suffering a cardiac arrest in the ambulance that was transporting her. Attempts to revive her lasted for more than an hour until there was nothing to do.
The posts after the brutal crash of a stolen motorcycle against a car, which caused the death of a one-year-old baby, in Isidro Casanova.
While they were in the hospital, devastated, a young man arrived in the box of an ambulance. It was Colche, who was a companion on the motorcycle that rammed the car at the intersection of Hilario de Almeira and Jacobo Watt, 150 meters from his house.
Colche and the Gauna family were neighbors. They had known each other since childhood: "They have a criminal record, we know that. One of the killers lives two blocks from my house, we knew him as a kid. We know they have a background, the other one too," Milagros questioned in a dialogue with TN.
He added: "They are both guilty, that's why we want justice, nothing but justice, that they both pay for what they did. At the time it happened, another motorcycle was coming behind but we do not know if they came with them, so it is said they had robbed the area, 20 minutes before they had robbed a lady near there. "
The posts after the brutal crash of a stolen motorcycle against a car, which caused the death of a one-year-old baby, in Isidro Casanova.
Judicial sources confirmed to Clarín that they certified that "in pursuit with the Police did not come" the two suspects. But they asked for a "survey in the area" and the police reported that "there were no criminal acts reported in that time slot." Meanwhile, they could not yet corroborate whether the young men had a criminal record.
The truth is that both were arrested. Colche, admitted to the hospital with police custody; Sotelo, at the police station. They are charged with "culpable homicide and concealment."
It is that the motorcycle in which they were circulating had been stolen in the City of Buenos Aires, so they investigate if they were responsible for that theft or under what circumstances they acquired it.
The posts after the brutal crash of a stolen motorcycle against a car, which caused the death of a one-year-old baby, in Isidro Casanova.
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My mom has complications with her chest, broken bones, fractured ribs, stitched up her face. Apart from the pain, we are accompanying her," Milagros said. This Wednesday they hoped to watch over the baby and give her the last goodbye in the privacy of her family.
Aitana was in the passenger seat, without a seat belt or Child Restraint System (CRS), contrary to what corresponds to her age according to a national decree. That is why the accusation of homicide will be a challenge for Justice.
Prosecutor Claudio Fornaro expressed his intention to sustain the charge of homicide, although it will depend on what the judge of Guarantees indicates in relation to that.
In parallel, he confirmed that "the cover-up is an independently imputed fact. And the imprudence verified by who was driving the motorcycle is accredited," so they will remain detained.
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