Valentina’s death. Father and stepmother await judicial questioning

Valentina’s father and stepmother are suspected of murder and concealment of the body.. After judicial questioning, enforcement measures will be determined. The seriousness of the crimes for which they are accused must give rise to preventive detention.About two years ago, Valentina was also missing for wanting to go with her mother.

The boy was nine years old. Judicial police believe that she was murdered at her father’s home in Atouguia da Baleia, in the municipality of Peniche.

The disappearance was reported by the father himself last Thursday morning. After three days of searching, involving 600 people, the criminal investigation police found the dead boy.

At a press conference on Sunday, Judicial police said there are strong indications of murder crimes and the concealment of a corpse.

Valentina spent a few days with her father and stepmother. The exact circumstances leading to the boy’s death have yet to be determined.
Reconstitution

The Leiria Judicial Police had the two murder suspects reconstruct, on Sunday, the alleged crime in the house where it occurred..

Inspectors took additional steps to gather evidence that the crime was committed by the boy’s father and stepmother on Wednesday.

At the press conference, the coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Judicial Branch of Leiria, Fernando Jordão, said that the boy’s body was taken to an area of ​​bushes in Serra D’El Rei, in Peniche, Leiria district, where it was covered in bushes.

“We are checking, but of course it must have happened in a context of violence,” added Fernando Jordão..

The coordinator of PJ de Leiria also said, without further details, that the death occurred “due to internal problems in the family’s functioning.”

with lusa