Overview
- The boy’s father filed a criminal complaint against psychologist Jennifer Grisel Leiva, alleging misconduct and abandonment of a person followed by death, and asked for her suspension, a travel ban, seizure of her professional file, and an independent audit of her work.
- Leiva, a member of the municipal Service for the Protection of Rights (SPD), wrote reports the judge relied on to restore the child to his mother, which the family’s lawyer says lacked basic scientific rigor and were based on office interviews rather than checks of the home environment.
- The homicide probe continues as the mother, Mariela Altamirano, and her partner, Maicol (Michel) González, remain in preventive detention; a judge cited flight risk and possible interference, and authorities transferred Altamirano to a provincial prison in Trelew.
- The autopsy found at least 22 head bruises, brain bleeding, diffuse swelling, and fatal brain herniation, with injuries consistent with violent shaking and older lesions that point to prior abuse.
- Relatives have staged a march and plastered the city with posters demanding life sentences and penalties for officials, and prior NGO complaints and the new filing could force audits of SPD practices and closer review of the judicial decision that enabled the child’s return.