The dead body of a 5 year old girl has just been found in a wooden box that was filled with cement her mother used as a bedside table. The girl, Milagros Nazareth Martin was found by officers in the capital city of Argentinian, in Buenos Aires, after her father reported her missing for months.
The mother first told the father that she placed the girl in the care if social services because of their poor state of living. When the police showed up, she admitted that the girl was dead, but she did not know what to do because she was scared.
According to the mother, she was scared that her remaining two children would be taken from her, and she placed the body of Milagros in a bag, then placed it in a box filled with cement gotten from a nearby building site.
The cement-hardened box with her daughter’s body was used as a bedside table until it was discovered by the police. She has been arrested and charged with ‘culpable homicide’.
Autopsy results show that the little girl died from a respiratory infection, that was as a result of a pre-existing illness, which required her to have a tracheostomy and a nasogastric tube.
While the mother had lied to the father about the whereabouts of their daughter, she admitted the death of her daughter to her relatives. It was the relatives that reported the situation after which an emergency search was ordered.
