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Albacete Court Sentences Woman to Reviewable Permanent Prison for Killing Newborn

The ruling follows a jury conviction delivered on November 27.

Overview

  • The Sección Segunda of the Albacete Provincial Court imposed prisión permanente revisable for the murder of a baby born at home in Elche de la Sierra in January 2023.
  • The sentence includes loss of parental authority over her other daughter, a 31‑year ban on contact or approach within 500 meters, and suspension of any visitation during incarceration.
  • After release, the court ordered ten years of supervised freedom and required payment of court costs.
  • Civil damages total €50,000 to the surviving daughter and €100,000 to the newborn’s father, and the court applied the aggravating circumstance of kinship.
  • Jurors, after a 10‑day trial, accepted the prosecution’s account that the baby was born alive and left in a household trash bin, later dying from hypovolemic shock, hypothermia and asphyxia.