The death of Ángel López, the 4-year-old boy who died in Comodoro Rivadavia, is not only being investigated as a dubious, potentially unlawful death, but it also revives the debate over the judicial decisions that led to his final situation. At the center of the scene now appears the judge who intervened in the case and ordered his reconnection with the mother, now the prime suspect.
This is Pablo José Pérez, head of Family Court No. 4, who ordered that the boy return to live with Mariela Altamirano after an extensive legal dispute with his father, Luis López.Pérez's resolution, which involved the return of tenure to the mother and the beginning of a reconnection process, is today severely questioned by the parental environment, which reports having warned of possible risks. The child's father was forceful: “Ángel was killed,” he told the press. He added: “My son always asked for me and they never did anything. Everyone treated me as sexist, and if it had been the other way around, I was already in prison.” These statements focus on the judicial approach applied, especially in a context marked by cross-complaints of gender-based violence between parents
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For her part, Mariela Altamirano categorically rejected the accusations and defended her actions: “I didn't kill my son. What's more, I protected him and looked for him,” he said.
The woman argued that she was a victim of gender-based violence by her ex-partner and explained that she had lost contact with the child in that context: “He abused my ignorance and threw me out into the street,” she said. On the day of the incident, he explained: “We didn't hit the baby. We didn't do anything to him. What am I going to get it back for? To mistreat him and hit him? No. If I'm taking it away from people who are alcoholics and drug addicts to
