Eric, a baby of only 11 months, He was beheaded by his mother Last month, February 27, in the Valencian town of Vilamarxant. Now, the Valencia Court has acquitted this womanr based on the fact that the accused had her cognitive and volitional faculties completely annulled when the events occurred due to a psychopathological picture of postpartum psychosis.
After the much controversial sentence, ‘Vamos a ver’ has spoken live with Jorge Novella, the lawyer of the acquitted womanwho explained to us the reasons for the judge’s decision: “It is true that all the conditions for a life sentence are met because we are dealing with a murder with treachery, with a victim under 16 years of age and the aggravating circumstance of kinship occurs. With the code in hand it would be so, but there is a cause for exemption from criminal responsibility due to the mental alteration of this person at the time of committing the acts,” he analyzed.
Jorge Novella, lawyer of the woman acquitted after slitting the throat of her baby: “The father of the minor was aware that he was a person who had suffered from this temporary illness”
“What is striking about this case is that the person has no previous pathology or psychiatric history of any kind, it is simply a postpartum psychosis that is aggravated by severe insomnia, with delusional ideas and at no time is she aware of having caused any harm to the minor. When she realizes that the baby has died, she wants to end her life.“, he said.
When asked about How is this woman now, the lawyer explained“It’s a life sentence, a tragedy. She is a victim, a person who is sick at a specific moment and with the gruesomeness that one becomes aware of it afterwards.”
“No private prosecution was filed nor was any type of compensation requested; it was the sole responsibility of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. This shows that the father of the minor was aware that he was a person who had suffered from this temporary illness,” he explained.
Source: www.telecinco.es
