translated from Spanish: Advance against patriarchal justice: Aldana Muñoz was acquitted in Rosario

Rosario’s justice unanimously acquitted Aldana Muñoz, the young woman who was charged with “person abandonment” for the death of her six-month-old son, killed at the hands of her former partner, Franco Lopez, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for qualified homicide. This was decided by the court composed of judges Román Lanzón, Ismael Manfrín and Mariano Aliau. As Abofem said on his social media, the arguments were focused on the absence of crime and the “recognition of the nightmare that meant Aldana to go through all this.” In addition, feminist lawyers highlighted the “collective struggle for the visibility of the patriarchal manifestation of justice”, while in dialogue with Feminacida they noted that Aldana suffered revictimization throughout the trial process. 
“They tried to discredit her as a woman and a mother. They asked him how much he had suffered from his son’s death, whether he cried a lot or little, or about the relationships he had, who he slept with or not. The ruling set a precedent in marking that criminal law can never be used to criminalize a woman in violence and a victim of her baby’s murder,” the feminist media said. After the ruling, the Minister of Women, Genders and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, wrote on Twitter: “The accusation faced by Aldana Muñoz is a clear example of patriarchal justice suffered by women in conflict with the criminal system. It’s also part of the work that still comes to place to ensure gender-based justice administration.”

The crime occurred one Sunday morning 2017, when the young woman went for a bath and baby Matthew was left in charge of her boyfriend. Hearing the baby crying, he came out of the bathroom and found his partner with the little one in his arms and without reacting. At that time they went to the Eva Perón School Hospital in Granadero Baigorria and then to J. Vilela Hospital, where the baby suffered a trauma of the skull, a cardiac arrest and died. From Abofem they indicated that, according to the autopsy, the death occurred from “a blow to the head (head trauma resulting from the shaking mechanism)”.
In this note:

Original source in Spanish

Related Posts

Add Comment