Cristina will not set foot in prison or enter a psychiatric penitentiary center for having slit the throat of her baby: Eric. EL ESPAÑOL has accessed exclusively to the ruling issued this Wednesday by the Provincial Court of Valencia, by which acquits Cristina SN (Granollers, 1986) of the murder of her one-year-old sonin the family home that this thirty-year-old shared in Vilamarxant with her partner at the time: Antonio, an army corporal.
“This was a case of permanent reviewable imprisonment. because there were aggravating circumstances of kinship, treason and the victim was a minor under 16 years of age,” said Murcian lawyer Jorge Novella, who, together with lawyer José Soler, defended Cristina, preventing her from spending the rest of her days in a shabolo from Picassent prison. “The outcome of the judgment is satisfactory, but the fight does not end there because she is sentenced to life imprisonment due to her personal situation. She is still taking antidepressants and is in the care of her family.”
Cristina has barely said a word since Monday, February 27, 2023, after slitting her baby’s throat and stabbing her in the abdomen and chest, as well as cutting her wrists, decided saltar into the void from the terrace of the bedroom ground where he lived in Vilamarxant.
At the hearing held this Wednesday before the First Section of the Provincial Court of Valencia, the popular jury that Cristina and I were going to face was not even constituted. a light reading was made of the infanticide for which she was to be triedso as not to spoil the mood of this 37-year-old woman.
Two knives found by the Civil Guard in the bathtub of Cristina’s house.
– What was the key to this acquittal for an infanticide that shocked all of Spain?
– Jorge Novella: The forensic report is very clear. At the time of the events, my client was suffering from a psychotic crisis derived from postpartum depression. On that day, he could not be blamed because it was proven that he was suffering from an acute psychotic crisis of an acute nature and that he was not in control of his volitional faculties.
In fact, a report from the Civil Guard reveals that Cristina’s psychological decline began a few weeks before the celebration of little Eric’s first birthday.. This thirty-year-old showed “overwhelmed” by the situation of her baby: he had been suffering from spasms and tremors for some time, he couldn’t focus his eyes, I was upset, irritable at meal times, And No I slept at night.
Farewell, let’s note that Cristina left for her husband, Antonio, before allegedly killing her son and attempting suicide.
The Women and Minors Team (EMUME) of the Armed Institute confirmed that Cristina he thought his son was shrinkingshe even went to the doctor because she was taking omega 3 pills with salmon and claimed that she had passed mercury into her baby’s body when she was breastfeeding. She also analyzed the 15,289 searches that this mother did on Google and they indicated that she was not doing well psychologically.: ‘‘One-year-old baby breaks papers’, ‘bebe he hasn’t smiled for a year,’my baby bends his tongue to the side’, ‘baby hits his head…
So that The prosecution did not oppose the acquittal. of this woman who now lives in the care of her family from the Murcian city of Águilas. This is stated in the judgment to which this newspaper had access and which refers to “the exonerating circumstance of psychological alteration” included in the Penal Code, to exonerate Cristina from any criminal responsibility in the murder of her son.
“The prosecution and the defendant’s defense presented a written agreement, with the consent of the accused herself“, as reflected in the judgment. The hearing was resolved in ten minutes. All this, after Cristina answered one of the few questions that the magistrate of the Provincial Court of Valencia asked her, after the recognition of the facts and the agreement reached between the prosecution and her defense lawyers: Jorge Novella and José Soler.
– Magistrate: Do you ratify the agreement?
– Cristine: Yeah.
Lawyers José Soler Martín and Jorge Novella defend Cristina, who is being investigated for the death of her baby.
so that The sentence includes as proven facts that around 9:30 a.m. on Monday, February 27, 2023, Cristina was at home, at 24 Pobla de Vallbona Street in Villamarchante, when she dressed Eric, wrapped him in a blanket and slit his throat in the bathroom. The infanticide occurred while her partner, Corporal Antonio, was carrying out 24-hour surveillance at the General Almirante Base, where he was stationed in the Valencian city of Marines.
“The accused was in the house only with her youngest son, Eric, born on February 25, 2022. The accused, with the intention of ending her son’s life and using a knife to do so, He suffered three wounds to the neck, chest and wrist. right which caused his death due to acute hemorrhage caused by such injuries.
The key to failure
The key to the acquittal decision of only four pages is contained in this paragraph: “At the time of the facts, The accused had her cognitive and volitional faculties completely nullified, due to a psychopathological picture of postpartum psychosis.”
From now on, Cristina will no longer need to go to court to sign and will be able to travel throughout the country. The only measure set by the judgment is the following: “The security measure of supervised release is imposed on Cristina SN, with an obligation to undergo forced external medical treatment for a maximum period of five years“Basically, for the next five years, this thirty-year-old will have to continue to consult a public or private psychologist.
The judgment states that Eric’s father waived any compensation that might be due to him for the murder of his son. This decision is due to the fact that this military man did not want to bring a private accusation against his partner, even in his statement to the court, he emphasized his state of mental health at the time of the infanticide. He also assured that they had a happy relationship and described his wife as a good mother, very concerned about her son’s health: “Cristina loved Eric”.
