They were 3 and 7 years old. They found them some 2,000 meters from the place where they disappeared and were recognized by their father. The woman is in custody.
Divers from the Naval Prefecture found drowned the two little brothers aged 3 and 7 who were thrown into the Paraná River by their mother, who suffered from schizophrenia and also sought to end her life but was rescued by fishermen and now faces a criminal case for “qualified double homicide“.
The rescuers maintained the hope of finding the boys alive and that the story told by the mother was only a product of her imagination.
However, this Saturday at dusk the bodies of Santiago (7) and Lucía Valdez (3) were found some 2,000 meters from where they disappeared from the surface, in the Costanera area of the missionary city of Eldorado.
Boats and divers from the Prefecture worked for a day and a half in the Paraná riverbed, while the Police traveled the coast in search of the little brothers. Everything ended on Saturday, when the bodies were found and the father recognized them.
The judge on duty ordered an autopsy and that the mother of the little brothers continue staying at the hospital with police custody.
The expertise carried out in the coming weeks will be essential for a possible imputation for “qualified double homicide”.
Everything indicates that Miriam Z. (34) will be declared inimputablesince she is diagnosed with a picture of schizophrenia, police spokesmen said.
The case
The event occurred on Friday at mid-morning, when Miriam Z. left her home, in the Gildi neighborhood of Eldorado, together with her two children, but not before leaving a farewell letter to her husband, detailing her intention of killing her children and then taking her own life in the same way: drowning in the waters of the Paraná River.
According to the woman’s account, who at the time of rescue was lucid and without injuries, a while before she had left her house with her children Santiago (7) and Lucía (3), with whom she headed towards the waterfront of the city .
Z. was clear about what he was going to do, since in the house he left a farewell letter for Pablo Valdez (38). The woman indicated that she accessed the coast of the Paraná River through the area known as “200 steps” and that in that place she threw the little ones into the riverbed, where they quickly disappeared from the surface.
Then she put the second part of her plan into practice: entering the river to take her own life in the same way, but the situation was noticed by fishermen who alerted the Prefecture and came to her aid, managing to rescue her alive.
Valdez declared that his partner suffers from acute schizophrenia and delivered the farewell note that he found in his house. Now it will be the experts of the Forensic Medical Corps who must determine if the woman can face criminal proceedings or ends up in a psychiatric center.
EN – EMJ