A witness in the case investigating the alleged mistreatment of a baby by a couple has testified that the man was shaking the infant's crib violently. According to legal sources consulted by ARA, this is the woman with whom they shared a room at Vall d'Hebron Hospital, where the medical staff referred them after they had visited four other health centers in the days before the couple's arrest. The same woman alerted hospital staff that the child was not being well cared for, all just hours before the child abuse protocol was activated.

A 42-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman have been in pretrial detention since last Friday, accused of habitual abuse, serious bodily harm, and sexual assault against their son, a child just over a month old, who has been placed under the guardianship of the Catalan government. The couple was arrested last Wednesday, March 18, and appeared before the Barcelona court specializing in violence against children and adolescents last Friday. The judge ordered them held in pretrial detention without bail, as explained this Monday by the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC). Among the arguments put forward by the prosecution to request the parents' imprisonment were the risk that the abuse would continue and the possibility that the arrested individuals might choose to flee given the severity of the penalties they face. The prosecution also saw the risk that the parents could "violate the child's legal rights." For all these reasons, he requested pretrial detention and the suspension of parental rights as precautionary measures.

A former colleague told me not long ago that she was surprised when she heard I had a daughter because she'd never seen me as "a reproductive man." I laughed. It didn't seem like an insult, but rather a description. And, in fact, that possibility had always been there. The idea of ​​having children amused me, but until recently it was an abstract and distant concept.

The first Catalan baby of the year is named Ander Muñoz Adan and was born this Thursday, January 1st, 38 minutes after the New Year's chimes announced the arrival of 2026. The birth took place at the Parc Taulí Hospital in Sabadell, the city in the Vallès region where the baby's parents live. In 2026, the first babies weren't early risers and arrived many minutes after the traditional twelve grapes. Shortly after Ander, at 12:41 a.m., Sira was born at the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Manresa, the daughter of a couple from Sant Fruitós de Bages. At 12:49 a.m., Thais, a future resident of L'Hospitalet, arrived, weighing 3.4 kilos. She was born at the Bellvitge Hospital.

The Minister of Transport of the Spanish government, Oscar Puente, has revolutionized the networks. But this time not because of any publication related to the railway service, as is usual, but because he has announced that he has become a father again. With a photograph of himself and his newborn third child, the socialist has published on X: "Now I am busy with Óscar Puente III (the saga continues). But I will return." The minister already has two daughters from his previous marriage, Carme and Isabel, aged 19 and 18. Now, at 56, he welcomes his first child with his current partner, Yasmina Gregori, a businesswoman dedicated to the hotel sector.

Homicide solved. The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested four people for the violent death of a baby who appeared dead in a container in Cubelles on the night of December 22The baby was not even a month old. The police treated it as a criminal death and have now arrested two women, a man and a minor for their alleged connection to these events. They are believed to be the baby's parents and grandparents.