Indescribable is the pain experienced by the parents of a teenager who, after four days of searching – due to a strange disappearance – was found lifeless 100 meters from a school in Laboulaye, province of Córdoba, Argentina.
Behind the murder of Joaquín Sperani, who was 14 years old, is another teenager of the same age. They both went to the same school. In addition, they were neighbors and “best friends.”
The shadow of bullying surrounds this painful case. Nothing is thrown away. “I reported bullying at school months ago. The school did nothing,” Joaquín’s mother said, TN stressed.
For Martín Sperani, the victim’s father, the boy who confessed to such a heinous crime was ‘a relative’.
Both he and the victim’s mother are looking for answers: “I died with my son (…) I died when I was alive (…) I don’t feel my heart beating,” according to the description. to TN, on the night of Monday, July 3, Joaquin’s mother, Mariela Flores.
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What happened to Joaquin?
Joaquín went to the Provincial High School Institute (Ipem) 278 Malvinas Argentinas last Thursday, June 29 and “the cameras picked up that he was out with his friend (…)”.
Joaquín did not enter the classroom. His bicycle was at school.
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“He was a normal boy, later it was found out that there is a process of bullying in the middle and everything is confusing,” Mayor César Abdala analyzed the Argentine media.
Martín Sperani, father of the murdered young man, said according to Radio Miter that the analysis of the security cameras enabled them to identify his son’s best friend as the prime suspect.
“When I see him on the cameras smiling the same day, I see the baby coming back on his own. Then I noticed something dropped and found out it was my son’s phone. At that point I started to suspect,” he shared.
The shocking confession
The teenager involved in this crime certainly had Joaquín’s cell phone, according to Abdala. Abdala, in contact with Cadena 3, confirmed it was a murder.
The young man’s body was found by some cousins in an abandoned house. Mariela Flores laments: “We passed by that house many times and we never admitted to go in.”
Abdala informed that Joaquín’s neighbor confessed his participation in this tragedy.
“(…) He was with a psychologist, he is a 14-year-old child until he collapsed and said it was him and at the same time they found Joaquín 100 meters from the school,” he explained.
Joaquín’s father was made aware of the strong claim. It validated that the minor confessed to the crime, saying: “Yes, I killed Joaquín.”
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beaten to death
La Nación published that, according to the marks on the corpse, Joaquín received a hard blow to the head. The police found a piece of iron and some stones.
They quote an initial autopsy report: “He had blows to the head and the first blow would have been from behind,” he adds.
Then in TN they expanded that “Joaquín suffered brain damage that caused his instant death after taking more than 10 blows to the head.”
In Laboulaye with the mother and father of Joaquín Sperani, the 14-year-old teenager killed by his friend. cover for @lanacionmas. pic.twitter.com/guAsSAXAh4
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“He’s a Psychopath”
Mariela Flores, who reported her son missing on Thursday evening, received the worst news on Sunday, July 2, and had a nervous breakdown.
The woman was informed of the violence with which her son was attacked: “Joaquín has been beaten up completely. Presumably, from what the commissioner there told me, they used an iron”.
“I want to keep the image of my beautiful son, the one I always looked for him,” he said according to Radio Mitre.
“He’s a psychopath,” he said along with the victim’s father when he heard the neighbor’s confession that further exploded this Laboulaye tragedy.
Martín, in turn, stated: “I do not understand what happened … That his friend did this, that he was one of the family (…) The truth is very difficult, I do not fall. I wonder why but I don’t have an answer.”
We got together at home, we went everywhere, even with his parents, and he does something like that with me.
Martin, father of Joaquín Sperani
On the night of Monday, July 3 on Telenoche, Mariela Flores said of her son’s boyfriend, according to TN: “He said that Joaquín gave him his cell phone and that he would go to a family that would treat him better. I started to despair because I thought they would take my son out of the country.”
Flores remembers the first night of her son’s disappearance and images come to mind of the parents of the young man who confessed to killing Joaquín: “They helped us search the first night, that’s why I say that the boy are also deceived parents, hard believe it. If it was him, he’s a psychopath,” TN said.
🚨 Horror and a shocking case in Córdoba: the wanted teenager was found dead
Joaquín Sperani was 14 years old, his body appeared in an abandoned house. The best friend confessed to killing him.
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Goodbye Joaquín and what will happen to the “friend”
On the afternoon of Monday, July 3, in the midst of intense pain scenes, Joaquín said his last goodbye.
The person involved in this death was taken “to a juvenile detention center in the provincial capital”, according to this medium.
Provincial justice reported “that the transfer of the young man, who cannot be charged because of his age, was carried out ‘for his protection’.”
Joaquín’s parents are overwhelmed with grief. Waiting for answers, Mariela Flores talks about the neighbor again, about her son’s boyfriend “since they were very little” and said in TN: “If he killed him, couldn’t he go to school with bloodstains on his clothes? It makes me think he didn’t act alone.”
Source: Eluniverso

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