After being released, the parents of the baby who died in La Matanza will denounce the police and the medical staff

The lawyer of Omar Barrientos there Layla Melani Riverothe parents of Alison Barrientos Rivero —the 21-day-old baby who died of a heart failure in a hospital in the city of Buenos Aires Ciudad Evita – who were held responsible for his death, planned that he would denounce the police of Buenos Aires for physical and psychological torture and, in addition, the medical staff and the director from the Alberto Balestrini Hospital in La Matanza for the supply disinformation to Justice.

In the following days, the lawyer Miguel Angel Racanelliwill ask justice to investigate why the troops, both from the Altos de Laferrere police station and from the San Alberto unit, did not comply with the judge’s order which provided that Rivero and Barrientos had to be isolated from the rest of the detainees.

“(My defendants) were handed over and crushed with sticks. The responsibility lies with those who kept them,” Racanelli said in a dialogue with telam.

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In turn, the lawyer provided that lodge a complaint against the nursing staff who made the first diagnosis indicating alleged sexual abuse and, in addition, against the director of the hospital. According to the lawyer, the diagnosis issued by the doctors was “biased”. “It’s absolute cruelty what they did based on the wrong report from the doctors,” Racanelli said.

On Tuesday, February 7, the authorities of the Alberto Balestrini Hospital in La Matanza assured that the baby arrived at the hospital that morning with cardiac arrest and that after being admitted to intensive care he died a few hours later.

In this context, those responsible for the field of pediatrics and neonatology reported that the baby had lesions compatible with a sexual abuse.

Quickly, the prosecutor intervened Silvana Breggia, of the special prosecutor for conflicts derived from domestic and gender violence and crimes against sexual integrity of La Matanza, who ordered the arrest of the parents of Alison Barrientos Rivero. A day later, on Wednesday 8, both were asked.

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After spending five days in detention, finally, Omar Barrientos and Layla Melani Rivero were released this Saturday at the request of their defense lawyer, after the autopsy determined that the newborn was suffering from choking while breastfeeding.

The decision to release Barrientos and Rivero was made by Guarantees Judge No. 3 of La Matanza, Ruben Ochipintiwhich decreed the end of the detention of two young people aged 24 and 26, who had been in prison since last Tuesday for having been accused of the death of their daughter.

Judicial spokespersons informed telam that the release of the two was hastened after the preliminary autopsy report became known.

at the autopsy Nor were any injuries found that could imply traumatic death or indicate alleged sexual abuse.as claimed by the authorities of the Balestrini Hospital in La Matanza.

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