Amid the controversy over Ángel Nicolás López, the 4-year-old boy who died on Easter Sunday, it was discovered that his biological mother, Mariela Altamirano, had a history of abuse and had already been removed from her possession of another child. Even so, the Justice of Comodoro Rivadavia had ordered that López live
with her.The boy died around midnight in the intensive care unit of the Regional Hospital, after being admitted that same morning after being decompensated in Altamirano's house.
Initially, doctors identified cardiorespiratory arrest with no visible signs of external violence. However, the preliminary autopsy report revealed the presence of internal injuries to the head. For his father, Luis López, there is no doubt about what happened: "My son was killed.”
The controversy in the midst of the Ángel tragedy responds to the resemblance to the case of Lucio Dupuy, the 5-year-old boy who was murdered in November 2021 in Santa Rosa, La Pampa, after suffering months of torture and abuse by his mother and girlfriend, after an ultra-feminist judge forced the boy to live with them.
Regarding the recent case, it is being carried out by prosecutor Facundo Oribones, who charged Altamirano and his partner, although both remain at large. In addition, information was requested from Misiones and Corrientes, where the child's mother would have lived, to reconstruct possible previous complaints
.The repugnable decision of the Justice
The case exposes a previous judicial dispute over the possession of the child. Ángel had lived happily for years with his father and with Lorena Andrade, who raised him from an early age.
