The mother of the mistreated baby considered kicking the father out of the house because he did not take good care of the child

BarcelonaThe mother of the abused baby who was hospitalized for a month confessed to her friends that she was considering throwing out of the house Sources present at the testimony explained that the woman made this comment to her friends in a WhatsApp message on March 9, a week before the infant, five weeks old, was admitted to the ICU. When she was already in provisional prison, the woman called one of her colleagues to confirm the exact words of the message in which she had explained it to them. This Wednesday, the court saved a copy of this chat, which could be key to the case.

The woman never explained what happened that day, but the couple continued to live together. The date of the message coincides with two days after a medical visit in which it was detected that the infant had a hematoma on his face and scrotum and an anal fissure. Both the father and mother of the infant are being investigated for the alleged crimes of injury, mistreatment, and sexual assault of the child, who remains with a foster family.

The man remains in provisional prison, and the woman was released on provisional liberty after distancing herself from him, saying that as a mother she could not be a guarantor of her son's safety at all times, and that there are "things she cannot control." However, she has never pointed him out for mistreatment, and this Wednesday her lawyer emphasized the difference between "mistreatment" and "treating badly."

Along the same lines, a neighbor explained a conversation on the landing that she had already reported to the Mossos d'Esquadra. This witness did not have an intimate relationship with the couple, but she spoke with them often and had also recently become a mother. In her testimony to the court, she reiterated that the woman told her, about the man: "He doesn't realize how clumsy he is." He, who was also present at the conversation, downplayed the comment.

"Contempt"

According to the testimony of her friends, the couple's relationship was not going well and the investigated woman had also complained a lot about how he treated her, "not for mistreatment but for contempt", and because she took care of him more than he took care of her, legal sources point out. The two friends also explained that the woman had wanted to have a child more than the man, and even so they did not see her "excited" about the pregnancy or the baby, but rather saw "more sadness" in her, which they attributed to tiredness.

The two women also explained that they did not understand why the couple went to four different health centers before going to Vall d'Hebron, where she worked. The investigated woman did not give them any explanation, and they thought that she must not have been happy with the care she received during childbirth.

Among the witnesses who testified this Wednesday is also a social worker from Vall d'Hebron who was with the baby for the three days from his admission until the couple was arrested. She was also there when a woman asked for help with a "Please help the baby" ("Sisplau, ajudeu el nadó", in English) because she had seen the father treating him roughly, and she was the one who informed them that the mistreatment protocol was being activated.

The social worker recalled that both members of the couple became angry when they heard they were being questioned. She interviewed them both jointly and separately without them giving her any answer that explained the child's injuries, and she assured that one day before the arrests she spoke in private with the woman, who gave the same version as when the man was present.