The arrest in Brazilian territory occurred after a coordinated effort by the National Police, the Prosecutor’s Office and Interpol.
Two people suspected of the death of a 7-year-old girl in Santa Elena were arrested, the State Attorney General’s Office reported this afternoon.
The case of domestic violence that shocked the peninsular community was registered on September 29 in a house located in the Villa Mariana urbanization, on the Spondylus Route, in the Capaes sector.
The Prosecutor’s Office detailed that the apprehension of Leticia PV and Gabriel GM was carried out last Wednesday the 10th in the state of Mato Grosso, located in the central west of Brazil. The capture was achieved under a coordinated effort by the National Police, the Prosecutor’s Office and Interpol.
The Ecuadorian authorities were notified this Thursday and will begin the process for the extradition of the accused couple, who two days ago received an order of preventive detention for the alleged crime of femicide.
At the hearing to formulate charges, which took place this week at the Santa Elena Judicial Unit, the prosecutor Wagner Sellán Zambrano presented as elements of conviction the investigative report, versions of the girl’s relatives and employees of the urbanization, the recognition report the scene of the events, the result of the luminol test carried out on the victim’s home, the psychological and social work assessment of the paternal and maternal grandparents and the girl’s father, the autopsy report and the removal of the corpse , medical-legal, gynecological and proctological reports, among others.
When the case became known, Hugo Rosales, member of the Santa Elena Cantonal Board for the Protection of Rights, indicated that a police report mentioned that the minor’s mother alleged that the infant was allegedly beaten when she participated in a “game” .
At that time, the minor was admitted to emergency the Liborio Panchana hospital in Santa Elena. There, a pediatrician from the health home found that he had damage to his skull.
Prosecutor’s Office investigates the case of a girl who suffered blows to the head in Santa Elena; minor died in Guayaquil hospital
Later, due to her serious condition, specialists referred the girl to the Icaza Bustamante hospital in Guayaquil, where she died.
Since then, the whereabouts of his mother and her partner, who are the detainees in Brazil, have been unknown. (I)
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