Hilda Maria Agudelo Garcia, 35 years old, was sentenced to 38 years in prison for causing the death of a child under 18 months old, after beating her repeatedly, in the village of San Antonio de Prado Medellin.
On 18 January this year the victim was taken without vital signs to a hospital in Medellin, where the aggressor said that the child had suffered a blow product of a fall. However, researchers and the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences established that it was a violent death, and that the girl was the subject of child abuse.
During the preparatory hearing Agudelo Garcia, responsible for taking care of the baby and a 6-year-old sister, accepted charges that imput her the Attorney’s Office and the 22 Criminal Court of the circuit of Medellin sentenced her for the crime of aggravated homicide. The woman remains detained in El Pedregal jail of the Judicial District of Medellin.