The killers of a baby thrown into a dumpster will be tried on Monday after the jury is convened.

PalmThe jury trial against the mother and uncle of a baby who died after being thrown into a dumpster in Portocristo in November 2023 will begin next Monday after the jury has been convened.

The public hearing was scheduled to begin this Friday with the reading of the parties' briefs, explanations to the jurors, and the questioning of the defendants. However, the defendants have requested to testify last, so the jury will hear witness statements first.

According to the planned schedule, the parties' briefs will be read by the Court's attorney on Monday, and the questioning of witnesses and experts, along with the presentation of the remaining evidence, will continue until Thursday. It is planned that documentary evidence will be presented on Friday, the defendants will testify, and the parties will present their reports and conclusions. The hearing will conclude with the defendants' right to a final word.

The Prosecutor's Office accuses them of murder and requests that they be sentenced to life imprisonment subject to review. The Public Prosecutor's Office accuses a third person, who was present at the events, of failure to provide assistance and is demanding a fine of 5,400 euros. The events under trial took place on November 3, 2023, when, according to the indictment, the woman, 26 or 27 weeks pregnant, took her side of the road inside a vehicle in which her sister and brother-in-law were traveling.

After giving birth, and despite being in the vicinity of a hospital, the baby's mother handed the newborn's body to the man to throw it into a nearby container and flee the scene. The Public Prosecutor's Office considers that both the mother and the uncle carried out the act fully aware that the baby was alive and "with the intention of killing him or at least accepting the possibility that a fatal outcome could occur without the necessary medical assistance."

The prosecution continues to point out that as a result of that incident, the newborn, insisting that she was alive at the time of birth, suffered multifactorial cardiorespiratory arrest due to the lack of assistance measures during delivery, as well as due to the moderate perimortal cranial trauma caused either by the fall into the container, which caused her death. Regarding the third person, the Public Prosecutor's Office believes that "she did nothing, nor did she notify anyone, nor did she request medical assistance."

Thrown into a container

The events date back to November 3, 2023, when several calls alerted the Emergency Services that someone had thrown a baby into a garbage container.

Citizen security patrols from the National Police and the Manacor Local Police arrived at the scene and found that inside the container was a newborn over six months pregnant, wrapped in clothes. At that time, a Local Police patrol took the baby to a nearby hospital. Meanwhile, National Police patrols cordoned off the area, protecting the site and gathering information from witnesses.

The Judicial Police group of the Manacor National Police Station took charge of the investigation. The officers determined that a car occupied by at least two people had arrived at the scene, and that one of them had thrown the baby into the container. Initially, the searches suggested that the man had dropped the placenta on the ground when he approached the containers and that he threw the baby out on a second attempt.

The three occupants of the car got in and the woman gave birth inside. They later approached some containers and threw the baby inside, although there was a hospital 500 meters from where they were.

The police established a device around the suspects until they arrested them. At the time of the arrest, the mother was suffering from internal bleeding and had to be taken by ambulance to a hospital, where she was admitted under police guard.