The trial for the crime of Lucio Dupuy, the 5-year-old boy murdered in November 2021 in La Pampa, will come to an end this week with the verdict of the court that judges his mother and girlfriend. It is expected that on Thursday, February 2, the Santa Rosa Court of Hearings will decide the fate of Magdalena Esposito Valentithe victim’s mother, and her partner Abigail Peace. However, the penalty would be known within two weeks.
What did leave the trial process were details of the horror that the five-year-old boy lived. And the chats between the people involved are one of the strongest proofs.
“Don’t let your hand go, we’re going to send a shit”
Probably one of the conversations is the strongest, due to the phrase that was recorded when Lucio’s mother told her partner, following hitting him, “Don’t get out of hand, we’re going to send a shit up.” In the conversation it is detailed that his son “behaved badly” and as punishment Páez hit him.
Those accused of killing Lucio Dupuy are not present at the reading of the verdict
“Lucio sent a booger and I hit him”, Abigail wrote to Magdalena, who replied: “Don’t get too far. That we are going to send a shit ”.
These chats contrast with the statements made by the defendants in front of the court made up of Alejandra Ongaro, Aníbal Olié and Daniel Sáez Zamora. “I loved Lucio and I miss him a lot, and I think regarding him a lot and talk to him a lot,” said Páez, on whom the attack that caused his death is centered. Other violent episodes, psychological abuse, but also her inaction to protect her son from the final attack are focused on the mother.
When declaring, the girlfriend of the baby’s mother recalled: “When I got home, I saw Lucio who was sending a snot. It doesn’t matter what, because it’s beside the point. So, I took him by the arm and kicked him several times on the tail. It was all very fast, I don’t know. I hit him and I didn’t measure where the truth was, nor do I know why either.
“I can’t find an explanation for it yet,” he added. I know I hurt him, I realized it at the time and tried to remedy it. Then I picked him up and took him to the shower because I thought he was going to react. He was trying to speak, he was still conscious. He bathed standing up. He tried to speak to me, as if to say something, but the words would not come out.
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The women came to trial accused of the crimes of “qualified homicide and seriously insulting sexual abuse”, which provide for a sentence of life imprisonment. The debate began on Thursday, December 10, and nearly one hundred witnesses testified. According to the autopsy, the child “had multiple injuries from blows, bites and burns, old and recent.”
“I don’t even want to see Lucio because it makes my life bitter”
Another of the conversations that were exposed in the case was when an episode was narrated in which the child had vomited due to eating large amounts of food. This indigestion occurred because he was not fed well at his home either, and when he went to play at a friend’s house, his family noticed that he ate large amounts, which caused him to vomit.
Those vomits also infuriated the couple in charge of Lucio: “Abi, how did you hit him? She has vomited twice now”, Espósito Valenti asks Abigail. “Look, I don’t even want to see Lucio. He makes my life bitter ”, she answers. After an assault, the mother’s girlfriend tells her: “It would be better not to take him to school”.
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Mother’s girlfriend wrote: “I don’t even want to see Lucio because it makes my life bitter”.
Couple arguments often had to do with hatred towards Lucio. In one of the chats, both discussed why Lucio “interfere in their lives” and Páez wrote, by way of reproach: “I’m fed up. I have to spend all day with this asshole. We can not go out. We can’t do anything with this asshole here.”
“I am the mother, nowhere will you be better than with me”
Before beginning the ordeal that the five-year-old suffered, he lived happily at his uncle’s, following an agreement between his parents. Lucio’s mother had no money to support him and his father lived in Luján for work. Until the judicial dispute began and the false accusations of his mother to obtain the guardianship of Lucio, which the judge Ana Clara Perez Ballester gave place.
In some chats, this dispute was made clear, in which the father was opposed to the custody returning to the mother: “I am speaking well to you. Lucio never lacked the food quota that I gave you”, wrote Cristian in the conversation of February 25, 2020. The woman replied: “I am the mother, so I know very well that with me it will be fine. Like when I left him with them (because of the uncles), I left him because I knew he was going to be better off than with me.”.
And he continued: “As I already told Leti (Lucio’s aunt), I want to fix things well. If you are once morest it, it’s up to you. I am also reassured that Lucio is going to come back with me. I have nothing more to talk regarding. Luck”.
His ex-partner replied: “Magui, you signed papers. The day you want Lucio you have to meet the conditions. A stable job, a home for Lucio and a lot of other things. It’s not going to be easy for you. They (because of the uncles) are not going to give it to you just like that. The baby is not a package to have it from here to there “wrote Christian.
The conversation continues with the mother’s response: “Exactly, (those requirements) I already have them all. That’s why I want you to come back to me. And nowhere will you be better than with me”. Cristian Dupuy He replied: “And how do you know that it will be better? He already has his things, his piece, his garden friends. Are you sure you want Lucio to go through it all once more?”
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