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The Criminal Chamber of Puerto Madryn upheld life imprisonment for the man convicted of kill his six-year-old daughter with blows and cuts to the neck on the grounds that the girl had a mental health problemin April 2019, in a house in that city of Chubut, reported judicial sources.
In a hearing, said Chamber resolved that the sentence be upheld, as requested by the prosecution. The defense had requested that the sentence be declared unconstitutional for Manuel Avila (43)sentenced for Martina’s crime (6).
The decision was made by the cameramen Rafael Lucchelli, Flavia Trincheri and Leonardo Pitcovsky.
For his part, defender Diego Trad had requested that the Criminal Chamber make room for the application of extraordinary mitigating circumstances, so that the sentence to be served is between 8 and 25 years in prison, while requesting that the prison be declared unconstitutional. life imposed in September last year.
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On that occasion, Ávila was found guilty of the crime of “murder aggravated by the bond” to the detriment of his daughter Martina (6), a fact that he himself confessed.
“There is no other sentence possible for such a crime“considered the prosecutor Daniel Báez, who together with his colleague Alex Williams carried out the accusation.
The prosecutors said that “there was no extenuating circumstance” when requesting the sole sentence of life imprisonment and ruling out the hypothesis of the defender Tras, who alleged violent emotion as a crime mitigating factor.
“There is no other sentence possible for such a crime”
According to the prosecutor’s investigation, at the time of being found dead in her home in Puerto Madryn, “The minor had between 23 and 24 injuries due to blows, a skull fracture and a deep cut in the neck.”
“During the processing of the evidence, and after the confession, there have been no doubts, the verdict must be guilty,” said prosecutor Williams, adding: “Martina Ávila lost her life at the hands of her father’s aggression.”
Meanwhile, the defense of the accused, in charge of Trad, maintained that they were “extraordinary circumstances” of attenuation and that “He killed her to avoid the girl’s suffering.”
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The incident occurred on April 13, 2019 in Puerto Madryn, when a 6-year-old mentally retarded girl stabbed to deathand for the crime they arrested his father, who confessed to having committed it.
According to the sources, the members of the local branch received “a call from neighbors” who warned about the presence in those streets “of a man in the street screaming, with a knife and bloody”.
“When the police arrived at the scene, they arrested the man and went to the house where the body of a deceased minor was found,” explained the police chief.
For his part, Ávila had a stab wound to the chest that he himself caused in an apparent suicide attempt. “I wanted to kill myself, that we both go… I wanted to kill myself, but I didn’t have the luck”declared the man in the oral trial.
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