Woman Kills Son In Argentina

LA PLATA - Adriana Cruz, the woman accused of drowning her 6 year old son in the jacuzzi of a country home of President Peron, was formally arrested in connection with the cause of justice provision of guarantees of La Plata, sources court. 

The Judge Juan Pablo Massi ordered that the woman to be transferred to an ordinary prison with psychiatric care. 

The prosecutor investigating the incident, Leandro Heredia, Massi had requested the arrest of Cruz for the crime of "aggravated murder".

That women "took advantage of the helplessness of the victim to cause death," explained a judicial source.

According to the prosecutor's investigation, Cruz drowned her son Martin in the Jacuzzi in her bedroom, in a country house of San Eliseo Golf Country Club, located at kilometer 18 of Route 52."It was a struggle between David and Goliath, of course, winning Goliath. A six-year-old would weigh seventeen or eighteen kilos could never offer force with a woman of forty-two," .

According to the prosecutor, "has not identified any disease-based psychiatric" in women, because it suggests that "it was of sound mind at the time of committing what made".

Moreover, the prosecutor confirmed that Cruz "was going through a traumatic separation box, tortuous and conflict with her former husband" and he had a psychiatric clinic in Quilmes for 40 days between last November and December.

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