This Monday, February 13, the sentences imposed on Magdalena Espósito Valenti and Abigail Pérez, convicted of the heinous murder of Lucio Dupuy, were going to be known, but it was finally postponed. The Court reported that the appeals of the prosecutors, the complaint and the defendants’ defenders will be heard at the hearing on Monday.
Later, the Court of Hearings of La Pampa will surely announce the life sentences, taking into account that it was proven that they committed the crimes of “aggravated homicide with cruelty and treachery” and “seriously outrageous sexual abuse.”
This was stated on February 2 by judges Daniel Sáez Zamora and Andrés Olié, and magistrate Alejandra Ongaro, when determining the responsibility of Valenti – the mother of the 5-year-old boy – and his partner Abigail Pérez.
The coroner determined that on November 26, 2021, Lucio suffered blows that caused his death. He had “injuries to various parts of the body,” including “blows, bites, and cigarette burns.” They also confirmed that the little boy had been the victim of “recent and long-standing sexual abuse” and that “he had a strong blow that affected his hip, buttocks, and leg, with a date of 7 or 8 days.”
More than 100 witnesses testified throughout 18 hearings in a trial in which horror was a permanent sensation, due to the viciousness and violence that caused such suffering to a child, and at such a young age.
The fact does not admit many readings: it is impossible to understand that a mother can inflict such pain and show such contempt for a son or daughter.
Something that also draws attention and that deserves a deeper analysis is why no health professional alerted to the situation when, since December 2020 and on five occasions, visits to medical centers related to child abuse of Lucio were registered.
It is necessary to review what mechanisms act to warn regarding these situations, and how to proceed to avoid greater evils.
It is also necessary to reflect on worrying derivations, such as the relationship that various sectors tried to weave between the sexual choice of the murderous couple and their hypothetical propensity to cause such a horrifying event.
It seems obvious to clarify it, but the fact that it is a lesbian couple has absolutely nothing to do with the aberrational fact that they caused.
Nor can the feminist movement be blamed for defending both women, even more so with false statements or taken out of context and prior to Lucio’s murder.
Nothing can justify the provocation and/or the generation of hate speech once morest diversities or once morest any group.
It is worth stopping to think regarding the lightness of some of these arguments, created mostly from the anonymity and opacity of social networks; and keep in mind that replicating them can also become part of that dangerous circle of discrimination.
Hate towards a collective produces the opposite of what those sectors proclaim, since, ultimately, it only manages to divert the focus from the true tragedy that occurred in La Pampa.
