A woman who suffocated her baby and threw it in a ditch will be released in Argentina.
A 26-year-old woman who smothered her baby of just three months with a bag and dumped the body in a ditch in Añatuya, province of Santiago del Estero (Argentina), she benefited from a reduced sentence and will be released.
Is regarding Micaela Roxana Diazwho on May 5, 2013 murdered her own son, a crime for which she was sentenced to life imprisonment.
However, over time his sentence was shortened and now, eight years later, he will be released from prison, according to trans-Andean media such as New Web Diary.
The crime
Micaela was 18 years old when she appeared before the local police and reported the kidnapping of her son Alejo Diazoccasion in which he accused two suspects of having taken him in a vehicle.
However, some time later they found the baby suffocated with a bag in a ditch, 100 meters from Díaz’s house. Given the evidence, the woman confessed to filicide.
The reason you will be released
After the confession, the woman was arrested and taken to a police station, where she tried to commit suicide with her bra. Given this event, they ordered her admission to the Añatuya Hospital. “I killed him because he had no money. My God, what did I do?Diaz confessed.
During the trial, the mother recounted that she killed her son by suffocating him with a plastic bag and then throwing him into a ditch. She also stated that she was going through a traumatic personal situation; that she felt alone on behalf of her family and the biological father of her minor.
“I already declared and told the whole truth… what I had to say. It is a lie that I am not sorry. I know that God has forgiven me; the only thing I want to say is that they do not talk regarding things that are not, “said the accused.
“I am sorry from the heart, for something I told the truth, if I had not continued saying things that are not, for something I am taking charge. Let the Court decide what it considers,” she added.
That is how on June 3, 2016, she was sentenced to life imprisonment for “murder qualified by the link”.
Despite the sentence, everything changed in May 2019, when the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) of Argentina revoked the life sentence, dismissing the “homicide qualified by the link” and judging that there were “extraordinary circumstances of attenuation”.
Now, due to a sum of sentence reductions, the 19-year sentence became 8, a period that he has already served, for which he will be released.