Overview
- The toddler suffered extensive burns while reportedly being bathed in a home in Bormujos and spent roughly two months in the Hospital Virgen del Rocío's burn unit before dying after multiple operations and skin grafts.
- Hospital doctors alerted the National Police when the child was admitted, and the case moved from the police minors unit to the homicide team after the child’s death.
- The mother's former partner has been questioned as an investigado and initially said the injury came from the child opening the shower tap, a version the family rejects.
- The family has joined the case as a private prosecution and asks the court to investigate for homicide and violencia vicaria, a form of gender‑based violence in which a child is harmed to hurt a partner.
- Investigators are awaiting autopsy results and further police inquiries that will determine whether prosecutors bring charges and what criminal pathway the judicial inquiry will follow.