A tragedy shook the Santa Luísa neighborhood in Lambaré in the early hours of Sunday (17). A 26-year-old woman killed her own son, just 7 years old, and then took her own life. The bodies were found by the owner of the boarding house, at the request of the child's stepfather, who was in Caazapá spending Mother's Day with his family.
According to police information, the boy was suffocated with a pillow and left on the bed, covered with a blanket. The mother hanged herself with a rope tied to the ceiling. The stepfather said he spoke with the woman around 11 p.m. on Saturday and everything seemed normal.
Before committing the act, the young woman wrote a letter by hand, photographed the pages, and published them on her Instagram profile. In the text, she accuses the boy's biological father of sexually abusing the child since age 3. She also claims that the ex-partner's mother and sister were accomplices to the assaults.
“This was reported to the 4th police station of Lambaré and forwarded to the Public Prosecutor's Office, Unit 4,” she wrote. “My case was never investigated. They never did anything. Today my heart can no longer bear so much pain, so much suffering, and seeing my son suffer, who does not go a single day without remembering everything that disgusting man did.”
She concluded: “I hope that after my death I receive justice, but the dead have no justice in Paraguay.” The post included photos of the ex-partner, the boy's grandmother and aunt, as well as a notification from the Public Prosecutor's Office related to the child sexual abuse process.
The original complaint was under the responsibility of prosecutor Amelia Bernal, from Unit 4 of the Lambaré Prosecutor's Office. Police officers who worked on the investigation reported that the woman seemed emotionally unstable at the time, but that this could be a natural reaction to the situation she was experiencing with her son.
The case is now being investigated by prosecutor Nora Cubilla, from Unit 1 of the Lambaré Prosecutor's Office. The police do not rule out that the letter and the published images may contain relevant elements for the criminal investigation.