Vanesa Muñoz Pujol’s life was very different from the image she was selling. Facebook. The loving mother of two daughters and two sons hid that social services detained the three of them and mistreated them and punished them harshly. Laia, who was only 2 years old, could not stand this hell anymore and lost her life as a result of constant beatings. This was indicated by the autopsy listed 73 new and 28 old injuries. Now, this young woman and her boyfriend, Cristian Lastanao Valenilla, are facing permanent reviewable imprisonment for the events that took place in January 2021.
A petition was requested from the prosecutor’s office, from the Generalitat of Catalonia as the guardian of the deceased’s older sister, and from the lawyer of the minor’s biological father, on all charges. It will be the popular jury formed for manslaughter at the Zaragoza Provincial Court that will determine the degree of guilt of both defendants. In different statements given before the investigating judge, both Vanesa Muñoz and Cristian Lastanao blamed each other for brutal crime.
investigation Aragon Superior Police Station Homicide Group Based on the forensic report and the study of the couple’s cell phones, he concluded that on January 21, the day Laia died, she complained of fever, diarrhea, general fatigue, upset stomach, and refused to eat. She was the symptoms of peritonitis she experienced as a result of hundreds of lesions in her body. They didn’t know that the duodenum was cut off and disappeared at some point.slow pain”, putting the little girl in a tub of cold water. He was no longer responding.
The defendants descended into the portal with Laia in their arms and sought help from some neighbors who had already seen strange marks on the minor’s body, as they had reported to the agents. The accusations consider the apartment at number 2 María Sánchez Arbós street in Zaragoza’s Picarral district to be a “hell”. Not only for ill-treatment, but also for Laia’s punishment for her “moving character and bad behavior”, allegedly, They fed him peppers, gave him hot sauce, locked them in a closet or hung them on the wall like a coat.
Investigators were able to verify the latter with their own eyes, as the defendants sent each other a photo mocking the situation on WhatsApp.
Examination of the terminals played a key role in the investigations, but there was also what each of the defendants had declared in the procedure. The boyfriend of the alleged infanticide went so far as to say he was “fed up”. With Laia, because she reminded him of the ex-whore”, referring to his mother-in-law, he would “throw her on the floor”, “fill her underwear with shit in her mouth”, and “hit the kids regularly, not every day, but very often”.
Vanesa Muñoz pointed to her emotional partner and father of a child who was just over a year old at the time of the crime. She admitted that Cristian was “aware” of what she was doing, “but couldn’t help it,” and that she did not comply with social services requirements “for fear” of losing her children.
In addition to the hundreds of wounds that Lai’s small body presentsa, autopsy revealed “traces of cocaine use in the previous six months, plus cannabis, plus an antidepressant and hypnotic”.
In 2020, Child Care Teams of Catalonia concluded that minors are at serious risk to their physical and emotional integrity. Despite this, the mother continued to see them and did not bring them back on a visiting regimen and moved to Zaragoza. At the time of Laia’s death, the Aragon Government had an open file.