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Laia, a two-year-old girl, died in January last year at the family home in Zaragoza in a "slow and agonizing" manner due to a hundred bruises, as confirmed by the autopsy.
His mother and stepfather were arrested as alleged perpetrators of the blows and mistreatment that caused his death.
Initially they declared that she had fallen down the stairs and put her in the bathtub to wake her up, something that they did not achieve.
Since then, the body of the little girl has remained inside a cold room at the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Aragon, due to a conflict between the parents about where she should be buried.
The biological father, Manuel Ardila, requested the Court to be buried in Lloret de Mar, the Catalan town where he lives, as well as the rest of the maternal family.
In addition, "it was the domicile of the minors before those under investigation took them to Zaragoza without informing anyone and breaching the judicially established system of stays."
For this reason, "in addition to the continued mistreatment suffered by minors, proceedings are being carried out before the Investigating Court 3 of Blanes for the alleged commission of a crime of child abduction."
For the father, Zaragoza represents "the macabre scene of the torture that his daughter suffered until his fateful death."
In his brief addressed to the court, he rejected that Vanesa MP, the girl's mother, attend the burial, alluding to "the psychological damage to the rest of the children and the paternal family and the social alarm that the presumed murderer and torturer of Laia come."
However, the mother has insisted that Laia be buried in the Aragonese capital and, as confirmed by this newspaper, the court has agreed with her.
Now, as published this Friday
by El Periódico de Aragón
, the new magistrate of the Court of Instruction number 12 of Zaragoza, María José Moseñe, has ruled that she be buried in the Aragonese capital.
In its day, the Provincial Court of Zaragoza ruled in favor of the burial being in the Aragonese capital.
He reasoned that the matter was in the investigation phase and considering that "the most appropriate thing, at this procedural moment, is that the body be found in the same municipal area as the Court that is hearing the facts."
At this time, the investigation can be terminated and, however, the judge uses this argument to maintain that it should be buried in Zaragoza.
It so happens that Vanesa MP, who remains in provisional detention in the Zuera prison (Zaragoza), has requested to be transferred to a prison in Palma de Mallorca, the city where she was born and where she has a family.
In this way, Laia would be buried in Zaragoza hundreds of kilometers from her mother and her biological father.
In addition, the mother assured the judge that she does not have money to be able to meet the expenses of a funeral.
That is why she has asked the Zaragoza City Council to take charge of it under the protection of charity.
The Zaragoza City Council has not rejected the request, although it has warned that the protocol states that, after five years, the body will be exhumed and that it will end up in the common grave like the rest of those who do not pay the maintenance fee for their niche .
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