Thiago Noel Palma Cedeño was taken out urgently on the morning of June 1, 2022 from the educational unit to the health center of the Eloy Alfaro parish. He allegedly had fallen into a pool that was inside that campus and presented presumed symptoms of drowning.
In that health home, located in that parish stay, within a few minutes it was reported that the child had died. From there began a need for his parents to know what caused his death on that day that was celebrated on his campus.
After more than seven months of that incident, the minor’s parents are still in pain and they only have to ask for justice for what happened.
At the moment, the only sanction that was issued against the campus arose first from the education district number two of Manta, an entity that sanctioned last year with five basic salaries to the representatives of this entity, which continues to offer classes in the same place. where the incident occurred.
The sanction, according to Julia López, zonal coordinator 4 of the Ministry of Education, was appealed by the directors of the Thales de Mileto educational unit, but that sanction was ratified by this zonal coordination.
The representatives of the school where the incident took place appealed again, but now to the central plant of this Ministry in Quito.
Jonathan Palma, father of the child who would be nine years old in 2023, said that they only hope that those responsible for his offspring losing his life will be resolved and punished.
“What we have experienced is painful, we just want as a family to clarify it,” declared Palma, who said that there was never an approach by the board of directors of the educational unit after the death, nor words of regret towards them.
Boy drowned in pool while celebrating with classmates from his school
He said that they hope to reach the final consequences in this judicial action in which six educators from the educational unit are suspected, for the alleged crime of manslaughter due to professional malpractice, according to the news of complaints that the web portal has of the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE).
At the moment, within the process of prior investigation, 80% of the proceedings were evacuated to prove what, in the opinion of Marcos Zambrano, defense attorney for the family of the deceased minor, would be the materiality of the offense within the criminal field, and then It gives way to the responsibility of the person who is mainly being pointed out in the investigation, such as Yolanda T., director of the school.
To date, according to Zambrano, the main defendant has delayed the process, as she assures that she changed her defense attorneys three times, but that it should be investigated, for example, why there was a swimming pool in that educational establishment, despite the fact that it did not I had permission to operate that space.
“All the procedures have already been completed, what is missing is for the prosecutor (of Guarantees and People in Manta) to ask the judge to formulate charges against the rector because she (director of the educational unit) is the main person involved at this time Zambrano stated.
The alleged carelessness that occurred at the moment the child falls into the pool is part of the investigative process that is being carried out. Zambrano said that the director of the school was called to give versions of this case, but that she opted for the constitutional right to remain silent.
For Santiago Hernández, defense attorney for the director of the school, it is necessary to know how to differentiate between a child’s family trying to clarify the facts, because they have every right to know what happened, however, he considers that it is another thing to accuse that They killed the son at school.
The jurist pointed out that in the legal expertise that was carried out on the child, it indicates that the minor had internal bleeding in the brain, and that it should even be investigated if the minor was allegedly subjected to alleged abuse, this because days before the incident he would have presented bruises on his body, and that the child, presumably, would have indicated that he was punished.
“The question is whether the child had a cerebrovascular problem before he fell into the pool, and that aggravated the situation,” Hernández said.
The lawyer said that there was no negligence and that in the process there are many things that need to be investigated, and that the process continues.
“Other than the fact that the child fell into the pool and no one noticed, that is an oversight,” Hernández declared.
What Hernández declared was categorically denied by the minor’s father, who indicated that what was said by the defense attorney of the director of the educational unit is a lie.
“It is a lie, in the autopsy it only came out that (cause of death) was death by submersion, and nothing else came out, because the autopsy was done to see if they had assaulted him in the water, if they had beaten him or if they had forced him to put him in the pool, not a bruise, not a mark on his body that forced him to put him in the water, nothing, ”Palma declared.
Thiago’s father, the boy who drowned in the Manta campus pool, filed a complaint
For the lawyer Zambrano, who defends the Palma-Ortiz family, all eyes are on director Yolanda T., in a case where there is even a minor, who would have rescued the child after falling into the pool.
“It is her (school principal) negligence, she is not accused that she did it badly, she commits the crime by omission. They went to give the child to her, and she comes and delegates that responsibility to a teacher, and she was in another activity, except caring for the child. The teacher (who was at the time of Thiago’s fall) is also in the process for her to testify, but she has not done so either, ”Zambrano recalled.
Hernández pointed out that also within the investigation, a version was taken from one of the doctors at the health center where the child was treated after the incident and declared that “one thing is a medical emergency and another thing is a medical emergency”, and that the doctor He said that they only attend emergencies and not emergencies.
“For me they killed him (the child), this fact that he fell into the pool, why he fainted, is the dynamite fuse, here there are several scenarios that must be looked at very objectively, with great caution,” declared the defense lawyer of the observed director as a suspect in this incident that is still awaiting a judicial definition.
And while the family awaits an exemplary sanction for those found to be responsible for this act after the investigation, among the defenders of both the affected family and the person accused of this crime, there is still a crossroads of accusations that It is expected to be defined in the next few days. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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