The parents of the infant in Kos who died of suffocation on Saturday night are expected to come to the prosecutor’s door on Monday morning.
In particular, parents face the charge of fatal exposure of a minor while at the same time they will be asked to answer for the abrasions who carried the small child in his body. The infant died of suffocation after swallowing food.
The chronicle of the tragedy
The one-year-old girl was taken unconscious to the Kos hospital on Saturday afternoon as the mother had found that the baby had lost consciousness. He tries to help her to no avail and shouts, with the residents of the apartment building rushing to help her.
The EMS rescuers who arrive at the scene find that the infant is not breathing. They attempt resuscitation and transfer him to the General Hospital of Kos.
It all happened in less than an hour. At a quarter to eight the 20-year-old mother found her baby unconscious. Half an hour later he called EKAV and while in the meantime he was trying with the help of neighbors to bring it back. The ambulance arrived at 8:25 and seven minutes later, the infant was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead at a quarter past nine.
“When the emergency doctor came, she was shouting for someone to bring a defibrillator. The mom is seven months pregnant, what she was saying is that she had fed the baby potato chips and put her to bed and she didn’t know exactly what happened.” said an eyewitness.
Doctors at the hospital found out undigested food in his respiratory systembut also abrasions and generalized ecchymoses in different parts of his body. They asked for further examination, to find out if she has been sexually abused.
The medical examiner who examined it in Rhodes, however, found no traces of sexual abuse, ruled that death came from suffocation due to undigested food and that the abrasions probably came from earlier blows.
The parents, who were arrested, said the infant’s injuries were the result of either an accident or a beating by her 2-year-old brother, who will also be examined by the medical examiner.
Neighbors’ testimonies about the couple – “We saw her with bruises”
Neighbors of the couple, speaking to MEGA, report that they had seen the 20-year-old mother beaten several times, with the testimonies of the couple’s fights being numerous.
“Her husband, the husband, was abusing her. Sometimes we had seen her in the neighborhood with some bruises herself, marks which she did not justify”an eyewitness reported.
“They had fights, I had seen the girl beaten several times. Now, whether he hit her or not, I don’t know. I didn’t see them together all the time. I saw more of the girl“, said a neighbor of the couple.
The father’s background is being investigated – He was arrested for pornography
According to information, the father of the infant has concerned the authorities in the past, with accusations of pornography. For this reason, the authorities searched the father’s cell phone and computer.
The investigation so far has shown that child pornography searches were found on his mobile phone.
