SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (EFE) .- The Spanish Justice dismissed the appeals of parents convicted of the murder of his stepdaughter, Asunta Basterra, 12, whose lifeless body was found in 2013, and ratified the sentence to 18 years in prison for each.
the High Court of Justice of the region of Galicia, informed judicial sources, introduces, however, a nuance, as it understands that the mother, Rosario lawyer Porto, which was smothered her daughter Asunta, without the collaboration of journalist father, Alfonso Basterra, but in execution of a preconceived plan with him, so it is the same for both.
Both were sentenced to 18 years in November 2015 for the crime of murder with the aggravating circumstance of kinship, according to the verdict of a jury.
The girl, of Chinese origin, was found dead in a forest track in Galicia in September 2013 with symptoms of suffocation, near a house in the family in which supposedly spent the afternoon with her mother.
the parents, who were separated in then, they ate with her daughter in her father’s house the day before, at a luncheon proceeded normally and in which Asunta came in perfect condition of that meeting, according reported the parents.
an autopsy revealed that the small, during or after the meal, had to eat up to twenty pills an anxiolytic consuming his mother and during that summer acquired his father at a pharmacy.
Alfonso Basterra counted in the trial last saw her daughter in the food and Rosario Porto admitted that accompanied the baby to the family house near the track where it was found, although he insisted that then returned to Santiago de Compostela home of other relatives.
the case of the disappearance, and the subsequent trial of the parents, was widely followed by the media and shocked the Spanish public opinion. EFE
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