Arrested in Manacor the woman convicted in the Portocristo baby case
The woman sentenced to life imprisonment with review has been located two weeks after disappearing before the sentence became effective
ManacorThe woman sentenced to revisable life imprisonment for the case of the baby found in a container in Portocristo has already been arrested. Officers located her this Wednesday afternoon in Manacor, after almost two weeks of being a missing person.
The investigation had been initiated after the convict failed to appear before the court once the guilty verdict issued by a popular jury in the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands was known. Faced with this situation, a search and capture order was activated to ensure the execution of the sentence.
The arrest occurred after a joint investigation between the National Police and the Civil Guard, who were finally able to locate her in Manacor. The woman is expected to be admitted to prison in the coming hours.
The case dates back to November 2023, when a woman, between 26 and 27 weeks pregnant, went into labor inside a vehicle in which she was traveling with her brother-in-law and her sister. After giving birth, and despite being close to a hospital, they abandoned the newborn inside a container.
According to the sentence, the mother handed the baby to her brother-in-law to throw it into the container before leaving the scene. The court considered it proven that the intention was to cause the death of the creature, a premature baby that had no chance of survival under those circumstances.
The judicial ruling also sentenced the brother-in-law to revisable life imprisonment, while the mother's sister was convicted of omission of the duty to assist with a financial fine. The case caused a strong social shock in Mallorca due to the harshness of the events and the severity of the imposed sentence.
An investigation that has dragged on for days
According to reports, Yolanda Moreno was traveling in a Peugeot vehicle with her partner and another man when she was intercepted by agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard. At the time of the arrest, the woman lay down on the rear seat of the vehicle and covered herself with a blanket, offering no resistance or speaking a single word, apparently accepting the end of her escape after about ten days of police pressure.
The woman had been missing since March 22, when she was due to attend the Provincial Court of Palma for the reading of the jury's verdict, which declared her guilty of a murder charge. Upon her failure to appear, the presiding judge, Samantha Romero, ordered the provisional imprisonment of her brother-in-law and issued an arrest warrant for the woman.
From that moment on, the police forces launched a joint investigation. The agents confirmed that she had not been admitted to any hospital nor had she left the island, a fact that focused the search on her closest circle, especially her family and her partner. According to the investigation, the man was moving around the Montuïri area, which is why police deployments were reinforced in this area.
Between March 29 and 31, a dozen agents from the Civil Guard and the Judicial Police of the National Police of Manacor were deployed to track the movements of those close to the fugitive. The police pressure eventually led to the woman moving towards Porto Cristo, where key clues were finally obtained that led to her location and arrest hours later.