19.00 on Sunday, January 1, 2023. A worker walks around the factory’s premises. Santa Barbara motel in Valledupar. He sees the shadow of a car that seems to be running. He walks and opens the doors to the garage next to the room.
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Through the tinted windows of the car, he apparently sees a sleeping baby. A couple in the room are sleepy and out of their minds.
The worker opens the basket. The girl does not react and runs with her in her arms. He himself takes the underage child to the Simón Bolívar Pediatrics Clinic, seven blocks from the motel.
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The girl’s family had arrived in Santa Bárbara in a car at around 4 o’clock that Sunday afternoon. Maria Camila Mengual MojicaThe 19-year-old was wearing a salmon-colored blouse and denim shorts. Y Humberto Manuel Olivilla PinedaAt 23, he was wearing a blue shirt.
Seconds after the worker entered the clinic, they said there was nothing they could do for him as he had come without vital signs. with the dead girl despite trying to save his lifeHe immediately reported the horrific incident to the Police, a fact that shocked Colombia.
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That same night, family and Valduparenses, who learned of the incident, surrounded the motel, where the police and the prosecution’s CTI launched the first investigation into the baby’s death.
“You son of a bitch! There she plays the crying victim (…). She’s your own daughter.” They shouted at María Camila.
And in the room, officials would ask their parents who they were and what happened, but they almost never stuttered.
“What is your name?” they asked.
“Manuel,” the young man said, eyes closed, shaking his head.
“Manual, are you consuming something?” they insisted. He continued with erratic head movements and his shirt stained with what looked like blood or vomit.
At that moment, the young mother used to say that they left the car running so that the baby would have air conditioning.
And yes, according to Felipe Murgas, Valledupar’s government secretary, the car was on and the air conditioner was on when the hotel employee found the girl.
As a matter of fact, to the authorized EL TIEMPO, according to the results of the autopsy performed by Forensic Medicine, The infant died of carbon monoxide inhalation after spending about three hours in the vehicle.
Murgas also confirmed in tests according to Forensics It was determined that the couple was under the influence of alcohol and psychoactive substances.
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The incident became the subject of an investigation by the prosecutor’s office, which was investigating the death of the baby.
Now, the couple is faced with two possible scenarios. The first of these is that the Prosecutor’s Office classifies the incident as manslaughter.
Criminal lawyer Camilo Burbano explained that this “occurs when one person, through a reckless act or omission, causes the death of another.” This crime has a prison sentence of 2 years 8 months to 7 years 6 months. However, if the act was committed under the influence of a psychoactive or alcoholic substance, the punishment would be aggravated, it reaches at least 4 years, at most 17 years and 2 months”.
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On the other hand, they can also be charged with willful manslaughter in the ultimate intent mode. “This mode means that the author anticipates behavior as much as possible and leaves it to chance to happen. In this case, we will be faced with a crime that is aggravated by being under the age of 14 and kinship, i.e. imprisonment from 40 to 50 yearssaid.
Gabriel Castilla, director of the ICBF in Cesar, said of the current state of the couple, who are free and formerly carried out the funeral services for the young child, “They are in pain. The mother is deeply affected. The sadness has entered a very strong depressive phase”.
The baby who died was the only child of the young couple.
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HRISTIAN AVILA JIMENEZ
TIME
Source: Exame
