The dissemination of the case of Lucio Dupuy, who died in a hospital in La Pampa as a result of the injuries allegedly received at the hands of the mother and her partner, caused complaints of child abuse to multiply by 73% in the last five days. Eva Giberti, a psychologist specializing in child abuse and director of the program “Victims against Violence,” explained that this phenomenon did not occur since Thelma Fardín’s complaint of rape against Juan Darthés and said that “more and more children are encouraged to denounce.” They are complaints made by their protagonists, or by neighbors of the same neighborhood or by children who claim that a relative of theirs is abused. Here the victims are absolutely naïve and innocent and can do nothing to defend themselves,” Giberti said in a dialogue with Télam.
The psychologist said that “more and more children of 7, 8, 9 and 10 years old are those who dare to report on the 137 line.” This totally anonymous way is used by children through WhatsApp calls “and not only call to report the mistreatment or abuse they receive but also when they learn that for example an aunt is abused,” said the professional. Between the months of October 2020 and September 2021, the inquiries received to the Program of the Ministry of Justice of the Nation through the National Line and the WhatsApp line were 15,118, for a total of 20,520 victims -there may be more than one victim per consultation-, of which 9,989 were children, girls and adolescents.
Lucio Dupuy: the child of 5 years received all kinds of blows, cigarette burns, bites and sexual abuse dating back years.
Lucio Case: What happened to him?
The shock of the murder of the 5-year-old boy transcended the borders of La Pampa when all kinds of blows, cigarette burns, bites and sexual abuse dating back years were discovered. The defendants are his mother Magdalena Valenti and his girlfriend Abigail Pérez and, after the autopsy, it was discovered that the child had long-standing wounds and that the cause of death was due to internal bleeding following a blow, allegedly caused by one of the many beatings he received. Child protection systems are failing in situations like this, because the school and the neighborhood should have been watching what was happening. In those systems there are several things that do not work well, there are protocols, this is the syndrome of the beaten child that is typical, but here we have two perverse who were pleasantly busy hitting him, “said Giberti.
