Doctors who treated the 21-day-old baby who died in La Matanza said

Justice is investigating the circumstances of the death of the baby, barely 21 days old, Alison Barrientos Rivero and, in this context, the prosecutor in charge of the case ordered the arrest of the girl’s parents: Layla Melani Rivero and Omar Barrientos for the crime of aggravated homicide on bail after investigating them. For the moment, no hypothesis has been ruled out. And while the final results of the autopsy are awaited, sources with access to the file said GlobeLiveMedia what would be discarded that the victim was mistreated, as was first believed.

This Thursday, the prosecutor Silvina Breggiain charge of the Public Prosecutor’s Office specialized in conflicts derived from domestic and gender violence and crimes against sexual integrity of La Matanza, He took a statement from the doctors who saw Alison at Balestrini Hospital to try to determine what happened.

His words are another key to the case, following the autopsy and the blood stained sheet that personnel from the 6th San Alberto Police Station seized of the double bed in the house of the imprisoned couple, located in the Barrio San Alberto neighborhood of Isidro Casanova.

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In the meantime, it is expected that in the next few hours the case will turn to the UFI Homicide of La Matanza.

According to court sources, the preliminary result of the autopsy would have shown that the baby did not have any type of abuse injuries. Therefore, the hypothesis of the crime on the part of his parents began to take less force, and the investigators would be with all lines of investigation open. Despite this, the parents will continue to be detained.

It should be remembered that, according to various accounts, when they arrived at the hospital, Alison’s parents were worried because “something was wrong” to the baby: she couldn’t breathe and, according to what they said, “she had choked on milk”.

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Immediately, doctors performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers in the field of neonatology, where it was established that the girl was brain dead. However, professionals at the health center also detected blows and wounds in the anal area which raised suspicions that the minor could have been the victim of child sexual abuse. However, that would have been ruled out.

The truth is that before Allison died, medical personnel contacted the Buenos Aires police to report what happened. Thus, prosecutor Breggia ordered the arrest of the parents, who also have three other children. The minors, aged 8, 7 and 5, were protected by the local protection service, after a medical examination at the children’s hospital of San Justo.

Camila, aunt of the deceased miner and sister of Barrientos, explained that her relatives had told her a different version of what had happened to her niece: “I understand that the girl choked on the milk and arrived at the hospital drowned.”. Yes the woman held in dialogue with R24: “At the hospital, they never told us why Alison died.”

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