“I still don’t understand”: the touching letter from Lucio Dupuy’s father, three weeks before the verdict

Three weeks after the verdict of the trial of Lucio Dupuy, the five-year-old boy who was murdered in the province of La Pampa, his father published a moving letter where he expressed that no matter how much time passes it is “impossible for him to forget the heartbreaking and painful” of his death. I miss you. I’ve tried and it’s useless, I’ve been trying to let you go for a while, but it’s totally useless to try to forget something that is and was always so inside me,” Christian Dupuy began writing through a post on his Facebook profile. The man said he still keeps present the feeling of “when you came into the world and they gave you to me wrapped in blankets.” “It is impossible to forget how heartbreaking and painful it was to see you in a drawer, when the law of life says that a son must bury his father and not as it happened, a year and 2 months and I still do not understand and still nobody has given me explanations of why all this happened, A constant torture lives in me, remembering that beautiful laugh, and your little voice telling me ‘daddy,'” he says in shock.” Your memory lives in us and with the love we have for you we can never forget you. My daddy, I wish that life passes me quickly enjoying everything I have to see you again. I miss you,” he concludes. Christian publishes this letter three weeks before the Court resolves its determination on the defendants Magdalena Espósito Valenti (Lucio’s mother) and Abigail Páez (his partner) at the Santa Rosa Judicial Center. Both are accused of “seriously outrageous sexual abuse, for being committed by two people and for cohabiting between her and the victim under 18 years of age, in real competition with qualified homicide for being the ascendant, for cruelty and treachery”. In the case of Espósito Valente, the accusation carries the aggravating circumstance because she is the ascendant. It is estimated that in February judges Alejandra Ongaro, Andrés Olié and Daniel Sáez Zamora will give the resolution of the trial that follows the homicide. Lucio was killed on November 26, 2021, in Santa Rosa, province of La Pampa, as a result of an “internal bleeding”, caused as a result of aggressions and bruises, for which his mother and her partner are accused.The main defendants for the crime of Lucio Dupuy are the mother of the child, Magdalena Espósito Valenti, and her partner, Abigail Páez | Photo: NA Archive“In my almost 30 years of profession I never saw anything like this,” acknowledged in his statement the forensic doctor Juan Carlos Toulouse in which in turn confirmed what he found in his report: that Lucio died from a “ferocious beating” product of “injuries in several parts of the body”; On his body there were signs that he had been a victim of “recent and old” sexual abuse, while presenting “a strong blow that affected his hip, buttock and leg, from 7 to 8 days ago.” In turn, the prosecution represented by Verónica Silvana Ferrero, Marcos Sacco and María Mónica Rivero, verified from a report requested from hospitals and health centers that Lucio “was treated five times in three months for presenting injuries, some of them serious.” However, they did not report any complaints. In case of any situation of violation of the rights of children and adolescents, contact line 102, which provides advice, assistance, and containment free of charge and confidentially.

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