As part of the detention control hearing that culminated in six months of preventive detention for both defendants, Ángel's mother and her partner gave their version of the events. In a case that accumulates increasingly compromising elements, both pleaded not guilty and denied having exercised
violence against the child.Maicol González, the child's stepfather, took the floor and maintained that the reported ill-treatment never existed. According to him, the versions of physical aggression are “barbarities” and he assured that the child was corrected “like any child”, taking away objects or privileges, in an attempt to diminish the seriousness of
the accusations.
Along the same lines, the defense strategy was also presented during the hearing, which sought to relatize the injuries detected in the minor's body. In this context, the prosecutor in the case, Facundo Oribones, revealed that the defendants' defender went so far as to state that the more than 20 blows to the head were compatible with simple “coscorrones”, a statement that generated a strong impact









