"Ah, but did you want it? Why?" . Thus - with the personal pronoun "him" referring to his newly deceased daughter - it was how Radu knew that the Torrejón Hospital had disposed of the body of his daughter, newborn and practically dead at the same time.
Minutes after delivery, the doctors had shown her the body of the little girl, almost 23 weeks pregnant , with "a hat that had been put on." They had also given him a fichita with fingerprints and the name, Ana María, the classic card that is made to the newborn. The man still keeps a picture he took of the small body, still hot.
With the deep pain of knowing about the death of his daughter just at birth, Radu, who had been with his wife at the birth and " we already realized that something was wrong when he saw that the girl was not crying, " he said. He had returned to the delivery room.
"We want to at least cry to our daughter"
To see his wife, Valentina, who continued with the tension unleashed, which had forced her to give birth - in which she lost consciousness - "so as not to put the mother's health at risk, as they told us" . Between the two they decided: after a complicated and very expensive pregnancy, they would bury Ana María in a cemetery, "to be able to cry, because we want to cry to our daughter . "
Having made the decision between them, Radu spoke again with the doctors, to claim the body, he says. This happened hours later, because he had to be aware of his wife, admitted to the ICU .
And there, when asking about his daughter, it was when he received the above response. "They told me what I wanted that for, that they didn't understand ... I was amazed. How can I not want my daughter's body? " It happened on November 8, 2017 and they continue to claim the body, now to the Madrid Health Service (Sermas) , which has limited itself to confirm to this newspaper that the claim is "under study and pending resolution."
The girl was alive just three hours before
The fetus was alive "just three hours before", because it had been monitored, explains Radu to THE WORLD. But the story has an even more extreme flank. Ana María's body would be, according to the pregnancy documents consulted by this newspaper, within the same limit of ceasing to be considered organic waste ... For just a few hours.
According to the central follow-up of the pregnancy, Ana María had been 22 weeks and six days pregnant. That is, one more day and could not have been thrown away. "But there are even documents that show that he had been 23 weeks of gestation , and there it would be out of bounds," says Adrián Carriedo, of the law firm Lex Abogacía , lawyer of the family along with Javier de la Peña.
There are registered cases in which unborn children in that gestation range get ahead: for example, the current son of the current leader of the Popular Party, Pablo Casado , was born after 25 weeks of training, with only 700 grams of weight, after the bag that it protected him in his mother's womb from breaking in the twenty-second week, as published.
No response from Sermas mediation
Carriedo claims moral damages to the family for the disappearance of the child, but points more to this newspaper: "We have twice appealed to a new service that the Sermas has launched to mediate conflicts of this type, so that come to the ordinary Justice, but so far they have not paid us any attention, all we have is administrative silence . " Sermas has insisted to this newspaper that the case is under study.
The family also claims an alleged poor follow-up of Valentina's complex pregnancy, who suffers from hypertension and was 28 years old in November 2017, when the events happened. He had the history of his previous pregnancy, ended at 36 weeks due to rupture of the membrane, and after which the couple has only one child at the moment, which is eight years old.
Specifically, Carriedo says that Valentina should have been controlled when on October 24, just over two weeks before the birth failed, "she had a blood pressure of 169/114 and was not admitted."
"I continue treatment, I can't get over it"
"But look, two years later, what we don't understand is what happened to our daughter, what they did with the body," says Radu, a construction worker and who, unlike his wife, has not yet been able to overcome what It happened: "I continue to treatment, I cannot think that I will not be able to overcome it . "
It certainly does not help that the couple's trusted pharmacist has told them "that it was the medication for tension, that they multiplied us by three during pregnancy, which made my wife enter almost in preclampsia ", and thus accelerate the end of pregnancy
Radu does not stop thinking at the moment when they told him that the pregnancy had to be terminated: "They told me that they either saved the girl or the mother, that there was no other alternative ." He stood next to Valentina, both separated by a lighting screen, and minutes after it occurred, "they asked me what the girl was going to be called."
They don't even know when he died
That gave him hope: "Although I had not heard her cry, I thought maybe ... But when I left my wife they told me that the girl had died," says the father. His lawyer said: " We do not know in purity when he died , because he has not been told. We do not know if it was during the birth, or before." Radu continues: "They asked me if I wanted to see my daughter, and I said yes. I was wearing a hat. I took her picture, and I kept the little girl with her name."
Radu and Valentina, who have been in Spain for 15 and 11 years respectively, and reside in Loeches (Madrid), do not understand why "nobody" in the center has told them "what they did with our daughter. They have only told us that it was already, for them, an organic waste. " The couple cannot have more children. "They had no right to do what they have done. I want to have a place to cry my daughter. I want her to be alive, even if it is, in a cemetery."
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