Attack on a two-year-old boy in Ambato generated rejection: What sanctions does the law establish in these cases?

The flagrante delicto hearing against the woman who was recorded while kicking her son, a two-year-old boy, will take place at 08:30 this Tuesday, January 31. After the medical evaluation, it was determined that the beatings that the creature received meant two days of disability, which is why her parent would not have committed a crime but rather a violation.

The event that occurred in the Quillán Loma sector, Izamba parish, in northern Ambato, caused rejection and indignation among citizens. The video that captured the moments of abuse, and that went viral on social networks, showed an inconceivable level of violence.

They arrest a woman caught on video beating a child in the street; the event occurred in Ambato

Repeatedly, according to the audiovisual, the woman kicked the child’s face in the middle of a public road in daylight, yesterday, January 30. Hours after the video was released, the woman was apprehended and the child was handed over to a maternal aunt so that she could temporarily take care of him.

In his article 67 the Childhood and Adolescence Code defines abuse as any action or omission that causes or may cause damage to the integrity or physical, psychological or sexual health of a child or adolescent, by any person, including their parents, other relatives, educators and persons charge of care regardless of the means used, the effect, consequences and the time necessary for the recovery of the victim.

The article 73 of said regulation establishes that it is the duty of all persons to intervene immediately to protect a child or adolescent in flagrant cases of abuse.

Acts of violence are penalized by the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code (COIP), which stipulates sanctions for those who harm the integrity of other people.

In the second section, which contains crimes against personal integrity, article 152 states that the person who injures another will be punished in accordance with the following rules:

1.- If as a result of the injuries the victim suffers damage, illness or leave of four to eight dayswill be sanctioned with a custodial sentence thirty to sixty days.

2.- If it causes damage, disability or illness to the victim from nine to thirty dayswill be sanctioned with a custodial sentence two months to a year.

3.- If it causes the victim damage, disability or illness of thirty one to ninety dayswill be sanctioned with a custodial sentence from one to three years.

4.- If it causes the victim a serious illness or a decrease in his physical or mental faculties or a disability or illness, which is not permanent, exceed ninety dayswill be sanctioned with a custodial sentence three to five years.

5.- If it causes the victim mental alienation, loss of sense or the faculty of speech, uselessness for work, permanent disability, loss or uselessness of any organ or a serious communicable and incurable disease, it will be sanctioned with imprisonment. freedom of five to seven years.

Child who was attacked on public roads in Ambato was handed over to a maternal aunt

If the injury occurs during mass gatherings, riots, popular commotion, sporting event or public calamity, it will be sanctioned with the maximum of the custodial sentence provided for each case, increased by one third.

The injury caused by violating an objective duty of care, in any of the above cases, will be sanctioned with a custodial sentence of a quarter of the minimum sentence provided for in each case.

In this case of the minor from Ambato, the National Directorate of Specialized Police for Boys, Girls and Adolescents (Dinapen), the Cantonal Board for the Protection of Rights of said town, the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES) and the Council of the Tungurahua Judiciary. (YO)