Overview
- Judge Karina Medina Machado of the Santa Superior Court ordered both parents held for nine months at the Cambio Puente prison during the pretrial phase.
- The investigation focuses on alleged serious injuries against a family member stemming from an incident in the Los Conquistadores settlement of Nuevo Chimbote.
- Hospital Eleazar Guzmán Barrón documented limb fractures, a cranial contusion, and signs of malnutrition in the infant.
- A medico‑legal report found the injuries consistent with blunt‑force impacts, and prosecutor Julio Reátegui Rodríguez presented these findings to link the parents to the violence.
- Judicial authorities suspended the couple’s parental authority, declared urgent family unprotection, and the baby remains under institutional care at the National Institute of Child Health in Lima.