The moving testimony of the parents falsely accused of beating their 21-day-old baby to death

After you’ve been falsely accused of beating, abusing and murdering their 21-day-old babyLayla Melani Rivero and Omar Gabriel Barrientos They broke the silence and made their defense against the doctors at the Alberto Balestrini hospital, where they had the newborn, and against the police.

in the air of radio with youThe woman said: “It’s the worst thing that happened to me in my life. It was my first time in a police station. They dirty our name. Going out on the street now scares me because I don’t know how people will react. It is awful. We couldn’t say goodbye or give her the last kiss as parents“.

They were accused of sexually abusing and murdering their baby, they were innocent and they denounced the police for torture

Alison’s parents were listed as the murderers of their own daughter until the autopsy and an independent expert report from the Buenos Aires Attorney determined that the newborn had died of a choking while being breastfed.

“I had a bad time, both in the hospital and at the police station. I do not wish it to anyone. Both me and my partner had a very bad time. It was terrifying. There was physical and verbal abuse in every way you can imagine. They beat me entering the police station, going to leave the footprints and being with the inmates, when they should have left me isolated,” Barrientos said.

In this sense, he declared mistreatment by the security forces: “The policemen told me barbaric things. If I, who am a man, lived through an ordeal; Imagine my partner, who is a woman and this is the first time he has been to a police station. They also mistreated and beat my wife.”

The man narrated that he spent two days without drinking water and that he had sores in his mouth due to lack of hydration. The police bothered him saying that these were the consequences of consuming paco. “They told me that I deserved the worst. I spent two days without having contact with the world and all they received were insults,” she added.

Omar regretted the ordeal that he had to live during those five days behind bars: “We entered the hospital for one thing and left for another. In the hospital we did not inform each other anything. We found out (what the pediatricians had said) when we were in prison . The worst thing that could have happened to me was finding out that my baby had died while in prison.”

The man detailed the abuse of power by the La Matanza police officers: “We went to the police station to make a statement and when we realized we were locked up and we didn’t know why. The policemen told me ‘you’re in a mess’, ‘do you know why? because your son died. I started crying, I wanted to die. At all times they treated mefucking nigga. They told me ‘you have to cut the p…’. They were saying ‘this is a bully And that’s when I started to get suspicious. They told me ‘don’t screw around anymore because I’m going to beat the shit out of you’, ‘people like you don’t deserve anything’“.

Layla couldn’t believe what was happening when the police officers explained why she was in custody. “At all times they told me to turn against him (of his partner) and that he muddy it because otherwise he would dirty me. I never went against him because I knew he hadn’t done anything,” he confessed.

“The police told me ‘now when they put you with the other prisoners they are going to kill you that is not forgiven’. I told him no, that we were together for 10 years and that it was impossible for him to have done something like that. They told me to tell the prisoners that it was for robbery. But as soon as I entered the cell, the TV was on and a girl (who recognized her) he kicked me in the face and then there were like 20 girls hitting me”, consigned.

The parents of a baby admitted with brain death and signs of abuse were arrested in La Matanza

The couple’s lawyer, Miguel Ángel Racanelli, said that “the girl had a lack of oxygen because He had a congenital heart disease that caused him brain death. He had blood in his nostrils and his little mouth because his lungs failed. That says the autopsy and the report of the Junín Forensic Medical Corps. Someone from the Provincial police press said that the baby was abused and beaten to death. that’s why We are going to denounce the doctors and the police who intervened in his arrest”.

And he advanced: “We are also going to go against the Departmental Headquarters of La Matanza and the troops from the San Alberto police stations, where he was imprisoned, and Laferrere, where she was. They would have waited for the autopsy report before doing so. AND I’m also going to go for the head of the hospital director, who came out to speak to the media that there was an abuse”

Mauro Szeta’s apologies

mauro szeta, a well-known police journalist, had stated on his social networks that Rivero and Barrientos had murdered the minor. In the networks they began to criticize him after the autopsy and the report that exceptionally the baby died of suffocation became known, and this Monday he apologized on the air of Telefe.

“First I apologize to these parents, and a lesson, because when I posted on my affirmed social networks, what was an early stage in this case, as if it were conclusive. That is my responsibility, the lesson that criminal proceedings ( I tell myself), they are long, they are not conclusive, and This marriage is innocent It is clear that he is innocent, not only they are saying it, but also the medical reports,” said the communicator.

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