A mother in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, buried her 5-year-old daughter in a wooden box filled with cement, allegedly, fearful that they would take her other two children from her.
The investigators revealed that the mother used the drawer as a bedside table.
The -year-old woman, identified as Vanesa Mansilla, was charged with manslaughter.
“I used the box with the body as a coffee table light”, an investigator told the Télam news agency. children.
Allegedly, the girl died due to bronchial aspiration (the accidental passage of solid or liquid food into the respiratory tract).
Supposedly, the woman did not know what to do, she got scared, placed the body inside the box and filled it with cement that she got from a construction site.
The Police found the body after the minor’s husband and father reported not having seen her for a long time. It is not clear if the couple lived together or were separated. Initially, Mansilla told him that he had left the minor in the care of the social services office due to the uninhabitable conditions in his house.
But when agents arrived at the house located on Catamarca street, In Villa Ballester, San Martín district, the woman confessed the facts.
After the investigation by the San Martín prosecutor, Daniel Cangelosi, the woman was accused.
The other children of the woman, aged 3 and 7, respectively, are under the care of her grandmother.
The first results of Milagros’s autopsy revealed that she had pre-existing illnesses and a respiratory infection.
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