Verdict The jury finds the parents who beat their children to death in Godella guilty of murder
The Third Section of the
Provincial Court
of Valencia has sentenced
Gabriel Salvador
, father of the two children who were
beaten to death in Godella
in 2019,
to sentences that add up to 50 years in prison - with a maximum of 40 years
, who was found guilty by a popular jury last week. The sentence acquits the mother,
María Gumbau
, because, although it is considered proven that she participated in the crimes, she did so in the middle of the outbreak of the
paranoid schizophrenia
that she suffers, which makes her unimpeachable. In his case, no prison sentences are imposed, but rather he is confined in a psychiatric center for a period of 50 years.
The magistrate has estimated that María is provisionally released and will now be transferred from the Acute Psychiatric Hospitalization Unit of the La Fe Hospital in Valencia to be examined and determine "if her non-voluntary admission to a center is appropriate."
The resolution, which can be appealed, establishes that the two parents must compensate jointly and severally with
600,000 euros to the
paternal and maternal grandparents of the children, as requested by the Prosecutor's Office.
Beating death to "purify" them
The judgment of the Court confirms the verdict of the jury that found it proven that Gabriel and María killed their children Amiel and Ixchel, convinced that
a sect that persecuted
, harassed and sexually abused the child. Driven by these beliefs and ideas, which the man included his sentimental partner, they decided that the only way to protect the minors was to subject them to a "purifying bath", "to end their lives and
send them to the afterlife
so that later they could revive ".
In this way - the sentence continues -, on the night of the events, between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m., "acting by mutual agreement in the execution of such a plan, doing property and letting each other do it," they took their children, the they bathed in the pool of the house and ended their lives with blows.
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