This Tuesday morning, a two-year-old boy was admitted, accompanied by his 26-year-old mother, to the Resistencia Pediatric Hospital in Chaco, with a complex medical condition. The woman said that the day before “had fallen out of bed“and that’s why “had vomited blood†.
However, the diagnosis was alarming: the boy showed signs of child abuse since he had suffered «blunt abdominal trauma with liver laceration, pneumoperitoneum, skull trauma with occipital fracture and chronic malnutrition,» according to the report. Chaco Diary.
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In a press conference held by the director of the health center, Alicia Michelini, more details were given about how the baby was admitted: “The child arrived conscious, lucid, committed but awake. The mother offered a confusing statement«, indicating that she was not present at the time of the incident because she was taking her other daughter to the garden.»
The doctors had to operate on the baby due to the severity of his condition and discovered a even more severe injury. He had a “duodenal pylorus explosion,†which is the destruction of the muscle that separates the stomach from the small intestine. At this time, the boy is admitted to the intensive care unit and is at risk of life.
Given the magnitude of the incident, an intervention was carried out on Line 102 and the Justice Department opened an investigation by prosecutor Francisco Asís De Obaldía, who already ordered the arrest of the minor’s mother along with her partner. Both are accused of “injuries aggravated by bonding†.
According to what was detailed in the complaint, The minor had already been admitted previously with a similar condition in the month of April, had a fever and presented in a state of malnutrition. In addition, he had difficulty breathing, so he was hospitalized for 11 days.
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Thus it was that the hospital authorities reported suspected child abuse and the Comprehensive Care Service for Girls, Boys and Adolescents Victims of Violence (SAINNAV) received a notification.
However, this time there was no intervention. «What happened in this particular case – April – is that the service did not assume it was a situation of suspected physical violence,» said Michelini, who added that regarding malnutrition They saw it as “a situation of lack and not as a situation of negligence.”.