The Provincial Court of Almería has sentenced the woman who ended the life of her newborn just after giving birth in the farmhouse where she lived in Vícar (Almería) to permanent, reviewable prison.
In this way, the sentence of Judge Jesús Miguel Hernández endorses the verdict of the popular jury, which unanimously declared proven that the accused, of Moroccan origin, gave birth on March 7, 2020 at her home and that she subsequently murdered her daughter.
It is estimated that the girl was born alive after "eight or nine months" of gestation and that the accused took advantage of the fact that she could not defend herself "due to her condition as a newborn" to strangle her and cause her death by "mechanical asphyxiation."
The woman buried the girl's body next to the door of her home, under a large drum, "without communicating it at any time" to health workers, police authorities or anyone else. Later, she found the newborn's placenta inside a bag thrown into an irrigation pond near the defendant's home.
For her part, the accused acknowledged in her statement that she had given birth at her home, although in her version she stated that she had been assisted by a neighbor, which could not be proven.
Likewise, the forensic report specified that the baby was born alive and that there were obvious signs of having breathed in her lungs. The same forensic experts also saw signs of having exerted pressure on the baby's neck, with marks from fingers and nails, as well as other injuries, all of them incompatible with strangulation with an umbilical cord, so it was ruled out that a strangulation could have occurred. accident.
Due to these events, the woman has been sentenced to a permanent, reviewable prison sentence for the crime of murder, for which she must also compensate the girl's father with 120,000 euros.
