translated from Spanish: Mother of deceased minor arrested in Recoleta: police indicated she suffered abuse for several days

On August 9, a 2-year-old boy died at the SAPU of Zapadores in Recoleta, after he was taken by his mother, Fernanda Ortíz Rodríguez, 22, and his partner, Diego Astorga Mejías. The Homicide Squad began the investigation on the orders of the Public Minsiterio, and today both were arrested as suspected of causing the child’s death. “The officers observed that the child had various external injuries,” BH Commissioner Orlando Calderón said, Emol said. The wounds were recent, but there were also others that corresponded long-standing. “There are lesions that are traumatic in the abdominal, chest and other cranial areas. The child was repeatedly beaten,” he said, adding that “it is a rather traumatic death and that it lasts for a period of several days.” The mother, according to police confessed to what happened ” detailing how the child suffered beatings by her current partner inside the home at different times, circumstances and days prior to her death,” Calderón said, adding that the woman “effectively acknowledges that he beat the child in a corrective way, not in the violent way she attributes to her partner.”

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