Maximum fine! A woman was severely condemned by a court for cruel treatment: she burned her 7-year-old daughter’s right hand by taking her to the stove.
The painful events took place in March last year in Boca Chica, a city in the Dominican Republic’s Santo Domingo province.
On Tuesday, May 16, 2023, it was learned that Judge Josefina Ubiera Guerrero, Chief of the Second Collegiate Court of Santo Domingo Este, along with Judges Yury Cuevas de la Cruz and Ariella Cedano Núñez, has sentenced Michel Santana, as identified by the lawyer General of the Republic.
The prosecution has handed down a 30-year prison sentence to a woman who burned her seven-year-old daughter’s hand over a stove fire, during an event that took place in 2022 in Boca Chica.#NewsDNN pic.twitter.com/EVd0BQ6Wv4
—Dominican News Network (@dominicannewsn) May 17, 2023
Why did he burn his daughter’s hand?
On March 3, 2022, EFE news agency reported that a relative of the victim reported that Santana “scalded her daughter’s right hand by placing it on a burning stove”.
Why did you do it? The alarming action was “to punish the minor for eating a younger sister’s milk”.
The pain from the burns must have left the baby, who ran to a neighbor’s home, in great despair, the attorney general’s office described.
The situation was denounced and the investigation led by prosecutor Vielka Pacheco.
One detail was not overlooked in the investigative work: “before committing the act, the mother put gloves on the victim’s hand to hide the damage she would cause.”
Had to put his hand in the water to get them off
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Sentence
The Attorney General of the Republic, according to EFE, confirmed that it has demonstrated to the court, with various testimonies, experts, procedural and written evidence, that the woman sentenced today “committed acts of torture and barbarity against her daughter, as provided for in the Dominican Republic”. Code of Criminal Procedure, and that it also violated the Code for the Protection and Fundamental Rights of Children and Adolescents.”
The 30-year sentence “is too much,” said social media user Luna Style, who acknowledges that the girl’s burning was “wrong.”
“My God, but what is happening… are people crazy? Burn her little hand?’ asked Manuela Romero in surprise.
Source: Eluniverso
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