Ramon Dupuy. / Photo: Julián Varela
The grandfather of Lucio Dupuy, the 5-year-old boy murdered in November 2021 in La Pampa, assured that in the hearing of caesura where this Monday the sentences will be requested for the victim’s mother, Magdalena Espósito Valenti, and her partner, Abigail Páez, already declared responsible for the crime, will formally request that both be separated in their place of detention.
“We will ask that there be no benefits and that they be urgently separated. It bothers me a lot because they shouldn’t be together. We spent the whole year asking for them to be separated”, said Ramón Dupuy this morning to the Crónica TV channel and from Santa Rosa.
Regarding the hearing that will be held this Monday for the parties to request the penalties, the man stated that he does not know if he will enter the debate room because for him “it is to remove all the same suffering and the same pain.”
“I always say that Lucio was not killed a year and two months and days ago, they killed him yesterday. We live with the same pain, the wound is latent and will never close. We’re trying to get over it.”he added.
The victim’s grandfather also commented that He does not understand why the court did not also sentence them with the aggravating circumstance of gender hatred And about that, he stated that “the psychological and psychiatric expertise and the chats between them point to hatred of the opposite gender.”
He also noted that “I could never forgive” the two already convicted because “they killed a defenseless 5-year-old child”.
Magdalena Esposito Valenti, Lucio’s mother. / Photo: Press
Asked about Páez’s statements, when in his last words before the verdict he said “I know that Lucio forgave me”, the grandfather of the murdered child replied that he felt “disgusted” and added: “Lucio cannot forgive because he is not there”.
Asked about Páez’s statements, when in his last words before the verdict he said “I know that Lucio forgave me”, the grandfather of the murdered child replied that he felt “disgusted” and added: “Lucio cannot forgive because he is not
Finally, the man acknowledged that in relation to the case “the guilt is felt for not having realized” what his grandson suffered, although he pointed out that he is clear that “the responsibility” was not theirs, but the now convicted.
The trial for the crime of Lucio will resume when the parties to the process will request the sentences for Valenti and Páezwho have already been found guilty of the homicide and sexual abuse of the minor.
Judicial sources informed Télam that the pleadings hearing will not be public and that after it a new date will be set, within a period of five days, in which the penalty will finally be announced.
And although the serious crimes attributed to both women only provide for life imprisonment, it will remain to define if the accessory is added for an indefinite period.
Guilty of the crime
On February 2, the Court of Hearing of the Pampas capital, made up of Judge Alejandra Ongaro, and Judges Andrés Olié and Daniel Sáez Zamora, determined that Lucio’s mother was responsible for the “triplely aggravated homicide by link, treachery and cruelty” of his son.
While Páez was attributed the same crime and also that of “sexual abuse with carnal access through the anal route, executed with a phallic object, aggravated for being the guardian and for having been committed against a minor under 18 years of agetaking advantage of the pre-existing situation of coexistence, as a continuing crime”.
WhileEspósito Valenti and Páez remain housed in San Luis Penitentiary Unit 1 and are not obliged to follow the hearing in person of this Monday.
In fact, the day the guilt was known, both carried out their daily activities in the prison and found out about the resolution when a judicial employee brought them a copy of the sentence.
Lucio (5) was murdered on November 26, 2021 at the house on Allan Kardec Street at 2300 Santa Rosa, where he lived with his mother and her partner.
The Justice was able to establish that at 5:32 p.m. Lucio was seen alive for the last time and that between that time and 7:40 p.m., when both defendants left the apartment alone, Lucio was brutally beaten.
In turn, Páez took his girlfriend on a motorcycle to work as a waitress in a hotel restaurant in the Pampas capital and returned alone at 8:49 p.m., when she tried to revive the child and put him in the shower.
A demonstration to demand justice for Lucio. / Photo: Julián Varela
At 9:30 p.m., Páez left with Lucio in his arms for the care center in the Río Atuel neighborhood, attached to the apartment, but it was closed.
At that time the child was assisted by neighbors and finally transferred to Evita Hospital, where at 9:45 p.m. it was found that he was already dead.
For the court, the two women participated in the fatal beating and the boy was punched, kicked and beaten, as well as being stomped on the back by Páez (which could be determined by the mark left by his shoe), which caused internal injuries.
According to the experts, the cause of death was cerebral edema as a result of polytrauma.
