Man stands trial for stabbing his son to death

The trial begins on Monday against a man accused of stabbing his eleven-year-old son to death in his home in the Valencian town of Sueca.

The defendant, who was remanded in custody on the day of the events, faces permanent prison that can be reviewed in a trial that will take place over four consecutive days at the Valencia Court.

The members of the court must decide if on April 3, 2022, the defendant stabbed the minor with a knife on several occasions, until he died, and if he did so with the intention of causing pain to the mother of the child, whom the man would have threatened and abused both physically and mentally during seventeen years of marriage.

It will also determine whether the man, after the divorce by mutual agreement in September 2021, where they agreed to joint custody of the minor, maintained the visits that corresponded to him and ceased all hostile acts towards his ex-wife, until days before the murder.

The account of the events given by the prosecutor in her accusation document explains the cruelty with which the alleged acted in a case of vicarious violence taken to its maximum expression. The child went to eat that day with his father to celebrate his eleventh birthday, which had occurred two days before.

Once alone and in the middle of an argument, the accused grabbed two knives from the kitchen and told his son: “I’m coming for you, Jordi.” “Dad, I won’t tell my mother,” replied the boy, who wrote a message to his mother at 2:04 p.m.: “Can you come get me?”

Ten minutes later, while stabbing him, the accused let his son answer his mother’s call, alerted by the text she had received, asking for help. The mother could only hear a long heartbreaking cry – “Mom!” – before the call was cut off. The twenty stab wounds that the minor received in various parts of the body ended his life and plunged the mother into a deep depression.

For the Prosecutor’s Office, these events constitute a crime of murder in conjunction with another of mental injuries and demand compensation of 300,000 euro for the child’s mother and 60,000 for each of the maternal grandparents.

In addition, the Public Ministry observes four other crimes – threats, breach of sentence, abuse and habitual mental and physical abuse – in the actions of the accused during the years prior to the alleged filicide.

The indictment refers to the “social loneliness” into which the woman fell after being constantly humiliated in public.

In 2021 he was convicted of grabbing her by the neck after asking for a divorce. An episode from February that was repeated in March – he strangled her and put a knife to her neck – and that caused the woman to leave with her son to live at her parents’ house. However, on numerous occasions, the defendant failed to comply with the prohibition of approaching within 200 metres of the victim and communicating with her, with calls at dawn, going to the home of her parents or the child’s school. The Guardia Civil had to intervene. The lack of coordination between courts meant that the judge who issued shared custody of the child was not informed of the conviction for mistreatment.

The same day that his wife left the family home due to the aggressiveness of her husband, he sent a message to his brother-in-law: “Your sister has fallen in love with another man. She will cost him dearly. Now I’m going to be bad and a bad person. Let her prepare.” However, during the last months of the year the father stopped threatening her and was able to spend time with the boy, until in one of those meetings, as he later confessed, he murdered him in cold blood.

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