The brutal crime of Lucio Dupuy in La Pampa It was the outcome of an ordeal of mistreatment to which both his mother and the woman’s partner subjected him for at least two years. That is, all the time he lived with them.
According to the medical history of the murdered minor, the boy was treated for trauma several times between December 2020 and March 2021, but there was no follow-up comprehensive of those antecedents and last Friday the violence he suffered cost him his life.
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“That it was an alert. Red lights ”, said a medical source in dialogue with The newspaper, and reaffirmed: “There are several. But there is no explanation, detail or record of the reasons for the consultation. I repeat: there are several ”.
Lucio’s last hospital admissions
On December 15, 2020, Lucio Dupuy entered the hospital ward for “upper limb trauma” and an “exposed finger fracture”. Three days later, a report from the Lucio Molas hospital in Santa Rosa complements this diagnosis: they found a “fracture at the wrist and hand level” and “fractures in other carpal bones”.
On January 22, 2021, the boy was assisted again, this time in a small room in the Río Atuel neighborhood near where he lived. There it confirmed “upper limb trauma”, in addition to superficial trauma from “trauma”.
Barely ten days later, he returned to the Evita hospital due to a “trauma / injury to an unspecified region of the body”, an imprecise diagnosis but also settled under the T14-1 protocol that implies “trauma / injury to an unspecified region of the body”. This may refer to cuts, wounds, puncture wounds, lacerations, or animal bites, among others according to the International Classification of Diseases. This was on February 1, 2021.
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The last medical consultation settled was on March 23, also at Evita due to trauma. There he was diagnosed with “mallet finger”, a deformity in the finger that is generated by a bone fracture of the distal phalanx. That is, the fractures that Lucio presented in December were never treated or taken into account for the mother and her partner. That day, several studies were also carried out, including an X-ray of the elbow, forearm, wrist, hand and fingers, among other areas of the body.
They investigate if the crime of Lucio Dupuy could be prevented
This Monday a team of prosecutors was formed to investigate the crime of Lucio Dupuy, whose remains were buried in the city of General Pico, while the governor of La Pampa, Sergio Ziliotto, made available to justice all the internal documentation for determine if it could have been avoided the homicide, for which the mother of the victim and the couple are detained.
Meanwhile, Juan Carlos Toulouse, the forensic doctor who performed the autopsy on the baby’s body, told Telam that He “never” saw in his almost thirty-year career mistreatment like the one Lucio suffered.
The burial of the remains of the minor who was beaten to death last Friday took place yesterday morning in General Pico, where his father Christian Dupuy lives, and once the ceremony was over, two marches demanding justice in that city and in Santa Rosa.
