The number 3 court of the Instruction Division of the Arrecife Court of First Instance has granted provisional release to a resident of Lanzarote, father of the 20-month-old baby who died last April from a traumatic brain injury.
According to the Court's Communication Office, the judicial authority does not rule out that it may be a possible case of vicarious violence, a type of sexist violence where the abuser harms the woman through her loved ones and, especially, through her children.
The investigated person has a record for violence against women, given that his partner reported him, but later exercised her right not to testify against him, and two convictions for driving without a license, the last one from October 2024.
The father was arrested by the Civil Guard as the alleged perpetrator of his son's death. For the moment, the Court is investigating him for a crime of homicide, the degree of which is not yet determined, as well as for another crime against road safety, for driving without a license.
The 20-day-old baby suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest on April 12. Initially, the minor's parents went to the Tinajo Health Center, but it was closed, so they then went to the Local Police station, where the officers began to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
After ten minutes, an ambulance from the Canary Islands Emergency Service arrived at the scene and the paramedics managed to resuscitate the baby, after another twenty minutes of performing cardiac massage. The minor was urgently transferred to the Hospital José Molina Orosa and from there airlifted to the Hospital Materno Infantil of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where he ended up dying a few days later.
According to information from the Court's Communication Office, the investigation's hypothesis is that the baby allegedly died after being victim of a traffic accident aboard the car in which his father was driving in Lanzarote. The circumstances of this incident have not yet been clarified.
The Court agreed to release the baby's father, following the criteria of the Public Prosecutor's Office, which saw no reason to request a precautionary measure involving deprivation of liberty.
This same source has reported that the investigation is ongoing and the tests to be carried out in the coming hours may specify exactly how the events occurred.
