Cristian and his brother were not the first time they were beaten by their mother’s boyfriend. According to sources consulted by ABC, the preliminary results of the autopsy of the two-year-old boy murdered last Thursday in Linares show that the body I had old wounds: bruises and bites. Traces of blows prior to the day of the child’s death. In recent hours, the family has made public that the two minors have already suffered bruises, scratches and injuries on several occasions.
This is one of the things that the Family and Women Unit (UFAM) of the National Police of Linares asked the mother this Friday, when they took her to the police station to collect a statement as victim of gender violence. Judicial Police investigators are trying to close the case against time to prove that it was the mother’s boyfriend who murdered the child two years old and sent his brother of the same age to San Agustín Hospital. The admitted minor is out of danger. His condition is not serious.
With these two minors, there are already nine victims of indirect violence in Andalusia. This is the cruelest face of gender-based violence: kill the children to punish the mother. In Andalusia, this year has been experienced too many times. Added to this are ten murdered women.
Sources consulted by ABC explain that in the files consulted by the investigators of the Viogen system of the Spanish governmentintended to protect victims and control attackers, no complaints of mistreatment by the mother of his current partner’s two children have been filed. However, the woman was included in this system for having suffered gender-based violence from two other couples. This time this boyfriend hit her in the most violent way.
The court handling the case declared the trial secret after the arrest of Cristian’s mother’s boyfriend. He is under arrest for the child’s death and for assaulting his brother. He is under investigation for the crimes of homicide for killing Cristian, injuries for his brother’s injuries and gender violence due to the context in which the two attacks occurred.
According to sources close to the investigation, the man had just been released from prison. He had only been in Linares for a few months. He has a history of theft. That morning, I was responsible for the two children, because the mother was cleaning so she could raising six children: He had lost guardianship of three of them due to abandonment and social services had removed them.
At noon, according to sources, he called her and gave her an ultimatum in which he told her that either he went home or he killed the “children”. The woman understood that he was not joking and went home; upon her arrival, she had carried out her threat with one of them. The beating ended the life of one of the children. He suffered a severe blow to the head, but an autopsy revealed he also had strangulation injuries to his neck.
In a first study, forensic experts were not able to clarify which injuries suffered during the blows received by Cristian which caused his death. His brother, covered in scratches and bruises, was injured, but alive. He was rescued on Thursday around 3:15 p.m. This mother had several suicide attempts. For a while she was a user of the social services of the Junta de Andalucía and the Andalusian Institute of Women.
