The State Ministry has demanded the innocence of a woman suspected of killing her 18-month-old son in November 2022 in Santo André, Santiago do Casem following the results of a psychiatric examination, as announced this Wednesday. .
“Given the result of the psychiatric investigation, the prosecutor’s office demands that the defendant be found criminally innocent and, therefore, apply a measure of restraint to her in the form of placement in a psychiatric institution,” the published note says. Wednesday on the official page of the State Ministry of Setúbal.
The Ministry of Defense recalls that “by a court decision of November 15, 2022, in accordance with what was proposed by the Ministry of Defense, a measure of restraint in the form of pre-trial detention was applied to the defendant, replaced by preventive hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital.”
The alleged murder alert was transmitted around 06:00 on November 14, 2022 to the GNR post in Santo André and line 112 by the father of the child, who was resident in France, after the mother contacted him. inform him of the boy’s death.
The murder took place that day at dawn in the house where the mother and son lived, in Bairro do Pinjal in Vila Nova de Santo André, municipality of Santiago do Casem, Setúbal district.
Following an investigation by the Department of Investigation and Criminal Affairs (DIAP) of Setúbal, with the assistance of the Judicial Police, the Ministry of Public Affairs of the District of Setúbal filed charges against a mother suspected of killing her own son with bladed weapons.
Lusa contacted the Commission for the Protection of Children and Youth (CPCJ) of Santiago do Casem, who at the time clarified that they were not aware of “any dangerous situation” involving a child killed by its own mother.