He Assunta case take one of the most tragic and terrible criminal stories of our countryrelated to adoption, two parents have an evil mind and a terrible plan. Now, some 11 years after the ruling, Netflix is reviving the story with a series starring fictional characters. But what does the real story say? Who was Assunta? What happened to your parents?
We must go back to 2001, the date when Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra They adopt Asunta, the tragic protagonist of the case. The Asian girl was born in 2000, so the couple adopted her when she was about a year old. According to Rosario herself in a statement to Galician television, “the adoption of the girl went perfectly, there were no problems.”
Little information is known about how the family’s life developed, although 12 years after adoption in 2013, couple getting divorced. According to the prosecutor, it was at this moment They both begin planning to kill the girl..
June 2013, beginning Assunta case
The terrible idea of Rosario and Alfonso passed through get rid of Asunt at any cost. It was July 2013 when they started designing planning to kill a girl.
That same month Alfonso received 50 tablets of the drug Orfidal.a powerful anxiolytic that they planned to give to Asunta for “testing”. How much did they have to give him to kill himself?. After forcing her to take several doses on different days, those around her began to notice the young woman’s discomfort, to which Rosario responded with a somewhat peculiar action: she spread a rumor that someone had broken into her house to attack her daughter.
As the days passed, and throughout most of July, Orfidal’s purchases and supplies continued to be present to such an extent that Asunta started skipping classes. At trial Rosario confirmed that he wrote the notes for the girl’s teacher who was absent due to aches and pains.
A summer of rehearsals that ended in tragedy
Between June and September, Alfonso purchased 175 Orfidal tablets using prescriptions from public and private doctors. They were used as rehearsal all summer to determine how much money they need to give the girl to implement their plan.
September 21, 2013 with information about how many tablets they needed.they give Asunta one last big dose, They eat together and take her to the family farm, located about 30 minutes from her home. On the same day, under the influence of the medicine, Her own parents strangle her and, at nightfall, throw her body into a ditch..
After 2–3 hours, they go to the police station near their home to report Assunta missing. Night search He found the lifeless body around 1 a.m. on September 22.
The next day, a full unknown investigation begins, ending with a conviction. Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of their daughter.
Only today Alfonso continues to serve his sentencewho was not reduced for want of repentance and who enjoyed almost no penal privileges.
Rosario did not serve 100% of his sentence, as on November 18, 2020, after being in prison for more than seven years, He committed suicide in his own cell.
Source: Hiper Textual
