They met on the Internet play playstation. Cristina Jiménez was 27 years old and had a two-year-old baby named Aaron Gálvez from a previous relationship. After a few video games and long conversations, the woman left everything and moved in with José Antonio Pérez, taking the child from Madrid to Elche (Alicante). Thus, the couple began a new life in which only the two of them could fit, according to the researchers. On September 13, 2018, five months after they started living together, they both beat little Aaron to death. after the baby wets the bed.
According to the decision of the Alicante Court, “José Antonio, knowing and accepting that the death of the minor was highly likely, applied physical force to the minor, beating him all over with blows (slap, pierce, even stamp It can cause various injuries (bruises, erythema, fractures, etc.) never received medical attention. Then he”stepped on his neck was so intense that it prevented the child from breathing until he passed out and lost consciousness.
decrease in sentence
Supreme Court just upheld the sentence inspectable permanent prison that the county court imposed on the man. Supreme Court reduced the sentence 20 years in prison, but the Supreme Court reinstated the maximum sentence. Also to Aaron’s mother, who not only witnessed the murder of her baby but was also “aware”. what your spouse is doing and he accepteddoes nothing to protect and prevent the minor”, according to the sentence that convicted him of one charge of habit abuse and another charge of murder (commission by negligence).
“I went to wake the kid, he peed. I said it wasn’t over and went to get milk. When I got back he had pissed again. So I banged his ass and then I lost my mind and hit him on the head. He gestured as if to stop breathing”. José Antonio’s statement about what happened on the day of the crime. The boy’s mother and boyfriend were detained at the Vinalopó hospital. His neighbor said that morning the boy was “unconscious and more than one bruise on the body and face“and where, according to the brief, the boy died hours later.
a little hoodie
Doctors quickly realized that they were dealing with a very serious case of ongoing maltreatment. Trying to save the baby’s life, Cristina and her partner made it difficult by hiding the truth and three different versions To explain what happened according to the investigation: first they said Aaron fell into the tub. Then, some hooded men kidnapped them. Eventually, the stepfather claimed that other children hit the boy. Their stories did not convince the restrooms, who alerted the police.
According to the brief of the case, the little boy died shortly after as a result of the “suffocation” he was exposed to. The police investigation revealed the ordeal that the boy lived in that apartment in Elche during the last months of his life, responsible for the assault on his mother and boyfriend. “repeated and continuous brutal beating of minors”in September 2020, as detailed by the prosecutor during the trial.
cries of pain
Neighbors told the popular jury how they had listened weeks before the crime. “cries of pain” they carried the boy through the stairs and walls, but did not notify the police as they were not sure what was going on in that house. Despite the fact that the mother and boyfriend of Aaron’s boyfriend, who is unemployed and lives with the woman’s recent inheritance, are complaining that they are wasting too much time. “Smokers on the balcony”.
During those months when little Aaron was neglected and mistreated, his father, Félix Gálvez, tried to call his son and let his former partner know that the boy was fine, but Cristina “did not pick up the phone”. and “no one in the family or any of my friends wanted to tell me where my child was”. To make matters worse, a judge had ordered a restraining order after Cristina found him guilty. bad treatments after a fight, a crime that Felix is eventually acquitted of. “I was mad with pain and at least was looking for him, breaking the restraining order. from thirty different mobile phones. I just wanted a picture of the boy, I wanted to know that my son was okay, but he never responded,” she recalls.
Without his father, Aaron was at the mercy of his mother and stepfather. They were subjected to 150 days of “suffering”. Only after she died, Cristina’s boyfriend admitted to brutally beating the boy on the day of the crime: “I gave it to her. three or four blows to the head. Right after the mother entered the room.” He also admitted that he had abused the child on other occasions: “This is the first time I hit the child like this, other times it was less violent.”
Train “Slap”
Before the judge, the man tried to justify himself: “Cristina says does not know how to educate the childgive me authority and my way of discipline is to slap.” And he clarified: “I don’t slap him every day, only when I see him doing wrong.” In his statement, the man stated what behavior the boy deserves, In his view, a physical punishment: “If he complains, he’ll do something bad. gestured or he pissed on the floorI’d slap his ass and make him lie down.”
The child’s mother, on her own behalf, “It got out of control that day” with the boy and by providing Aaron, he tried to acquit him. “he is such a stupid boy” He “everyone has a way of education” and that “We shot it to fix it.”
He wanted to give up his son
Four years later, there is one particularly surprising episode that Aaron’s father can’t get out of his mind: In the hours Aaron’s health deteriorated in the hospital, Cristina “was calm, sat next to her husband, took her hand and kissed him,” said a policeman. “We were surprised by the cold”added.
The patrol partner added that the boy’s mother was “more concerned about the situation of him and his wife than about the situation of the minor” and even expressed a desire to relinquish custody of his son if he survives the latest beating. she felt she couldn’t take care of the childwho had to take over because he wanted to give it up”.
“to hurt me”
There is a question that will accompany Aaron’s father all his life: “As he later explained, if he does not feel competent to educate and care for the child, Why didn’t you give it to me? He knew I was crazy about my son, I would have done anything for him… but he chose to kill him. I can’t get it out of my head He chose to kill her to hurt me. My baby’s life was taken for me.”
As requested through his lawyer Marcos García Montes, Félix resurfaced on the maternity floor, as he did when Aaron was born six years ago, shortly before learning that those responsible for his baby’s death would spend most of their lives in prison. . In a room similar to where she first held her son, became a father again.
The day Félix’s second son was born, the man asked to see the psychologist at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid to help him manage all his memories. “No one warns you that such a trauma can haunt you for life and relentlessly, no matter how hard you try to get up and move on. Sadness colors all the happy moments you experience.” The father then saw the nurses draw a baby, a cloud, and an angel on his child’s birth bracelet. When his son grows up, Felix will tell him who his brother Aaron is.