Woman convicted in the Porto Cristo baby case arrested in Manacor
The woman sentenced to a revisable life sentence 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 Porto Cristo has already been arrested. Agents located her this Wednesday afternoon in Manacor, after almost two weeks of being missing.
The investigation had begun after the convicted woman 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 arrest warrant was issued to guarantee the execution of the sentence.
The arrest took place 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 newborn who had no chance of survival in those circumstances.
The judicial resolution also sentenced the brother-in-law to revisable life imprisonment, while the mother's sister was sentenced for omission of the duty of assistance with an economic fine. The case caused a strong social shock in Mallorca due to the harshness of the facts and the severity of the sentence imposed.
