Overview
- Closing arguments concluded on February 27 in La Plata’s Juvenile Responsibility Court No. 1, where the accused is now 18 but was 17 at the time of the crime.
- The prosecution’s request is based on a real concurrence of charges of homicide during a robbery and robbery committed in a populated area and by a group.
- The court plans to release an advance of the ruling on March 4 and announce the definitive sentence on March 16.
- Investigators say the 7-year-old was caught by the car and dragged roughly 15 blocks during the February 25, 2025 robbery in Altos de San Lorenzo before the assailants crashed and fled on foot.
- A 14-year-old co-accused is considered non-punishable and remains in a secure juvenile institute under a two-year regimen with interdisciplinary treatment.