The Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands confirmed this Tuesday the provisional imprisonment of the woman sentenced to a revisable life sentence for murdering her newborn daughter, whom she threw into a dumpster in Portocristo. The decision was made during the hearing held this Tuesday to review her procedural situation. The woman, Yolanda, was already in provisional prison after being arrested last week, once she was located after being on the run for nearly ten days.

The Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands confirmed this Tuesday the provisional imprisonment of the woman sentenced to life imprisonment with review for murdering her newborn daughter, whom she threw into a dumpster in Portocristo. The decision was made during the hearing held this Tuesday to review her procedural situation. The woman, Yolanda, was already in provisional prison after being arrested last week, once she was located after being on the run for nearly ten days.

The 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 Palma Court has sentenced the mother and uncle of the baby who died to life imprisonment with the possibility of review. abandoned in a container in Portocristo in November 2023. The court ruling considers it proven that both defendants acted with the intention of getting rid of the creature, whom they denied any possibility of survival.

The case of the baby found dead in a dumpster in Portocristo in November 2023 has reached a verdict. The jury at the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands unanimously found the mother and her brother-in-law guilty of the infant's death. According to the court, both acted knowing the baby had been born alive and yet decided to abandon him in a dumpster without seeking any assistance. The jury concluded that this decision was made with the intention of causing his death. The events took place after a birth inside a vehicle, in which the mother's sister and brother-in-law were also traveling. The newborn was subsequently thrown into a dumpster on a street in Portocristo. A witness alerted the local police, who took the baby to a hospital, where his death was confirmed. The third defendant, the mother's sister, was found guilty of failing to provide assistance, as the jury determined that she was aware of the baby's extremely dangerous situation and did nothing, even though she could have. Following the verdict, the prosecution maintains its request for life imprisonment with the possibility of parole for the mother and her brother-in-law for murder with the aggravating circumstance of kinship. The final decision on sentencing will rest with the judge, who will issue the sentence in the coming days. The session was marked by the absence of the main defendant, who did not appear for the reading of the verdict. In response, the judge issued an arrest warrant for her. Meanwhile, the brother-in-law was remanded in custody after the hearing held this Sunday.

The mother of the baby girl who was thrown into a dumpster in Portocristo in November 2023 told a friend on the phone days later that she "should have thrown her in the countryside" at the time of birth. During Wednesday's jury trial at the Provincial Court, several phone calls intercepted from the mother days after she gave birth to the 26-week-old baby were played. "I should have had her here and thrown her in the countryside," she tells the other person, who insists that she not go to the police station until the baby's autopsy is performed. "We did it wrong," the defendant insists to the other person, who tells her that the baby had no chance of surviving and refers to a neighbor's call to 112 (the Spanish emergency number) who became suspicious of the baby's uncle after seeing him loitering around the dumpsters. The mother recounts how the fetus "came out whole" in the car.

The doctors who treated the baby found in a dumpster in Portocristo believe the child was born alive. They declared this Tuesday during the second session of the jury trial taking place at the Provincial Court, where The mother and brother-in-law are accused of murder and the woman's sister, for failure to provide assistance.