• Events X-ray of Lardero's monster: extreme violence, sadism and... Why was he on the loose?
  • Trial The head of the investigation of the crime of the boy of Lardero: "His death was extremely violent"

Álex, the nine-year-old boy allegedly killed by Francisco Javier Almeida after sexually assaulting him in Lardero was the "hero" of his brother, who will always be a person with "maladjustment, like his parents", as reported by the psychologist who is attending the child, seven years old at the time of the event.

In the fourth session of the trial, by popular jury, that the Provincial Court is developing against Francisco Javier Almeida, different specialists have described, at the request of the prosecution, how Alex's family are also "direct victims and will not be able to have a normal life again".

The first to testify have been the psychologists of the Immediate Response Team of the SOS Rioja-Red Cross, who have related their intervention on October 28, 2021, when they received a call to attend to some parents who were next to their son while they were resuscitating him.

They went to the place and found the mother hugging the lifeless body of her son and the father "absent, with a lost look". The two were "in shock." Since then, the attention they have been given is "continuous because they have a serious psychological condition."

Alex's mother has a "strong emotional pain" that affects him both "psychological and social, family even work". He has nightmares and presents depressive symptoms.

The psychologist has recounted how she experiences nightmares, inability to access activities of daily living, fear and insecurity. Alex's mother "reexperiences" what happened that night.

That night, both "lived a traumatic situation that left them with a very strong shock." She has a pathological grief chronicled by circumstances and certain depressive symptoms that, not only does not improve, but is getting worse.

He, for his part, is in "frozen mourning, he is not able to face situations that remind him of the experience, he rejects everything related to the death of his son and that night." They are "victims with permanent sequelae."

Regarding Alex's brother, seven years old at the time, his therapist has related how he has post-traumatic stress disorder. He is not able to have a restful sleep and, in addition to emotional sequelae, has cognitive sequelae: demotivation and lack of concentration.

It presents radical changes, from animation to anger, frustration; with tantrums out of the ordinary. A boy who sows had been "very stable" for whom his brother was his "hero".

The boy repeats his brother's behaviors as a way to "keep him," said the psychologist, who could not help but burst into tears. The brother has the "obsessive idea that he has to be a policeman to protect other children."

He explained that the child "does not have a developed brain" and that, because of what happened, he will have "inappropriate and maladaptive behaviors when he reaches adolescence." They are not having the upbringing that they would have had and everything will be part of their personality and will affect them, too, at the cognitive level.

The psychologists who wrote the report on the situation of the family also appeared today. They have stressed that the mother relives what happened that night, with images that appear "again and again." He can't go out at night, he has a physiological reaction of fear.

It is in a "pathological duel", which "remains fixed and is not overcome"; He wakes up with panic attacks and is unable to enjoy everyday things. "This makes him a direct victim of injuries," he said.

The father presents a different picture, since each person reacts differently. That night he suffered a "shock in blockade". He is in "frozen mourning," which means that "he remains in this he cannot have happened," with a "tremendous presence of avoidant behaviors."

He is not able to verbalize what happened; He is in a state of anesthesia, of affective dullness, a state in which you can not feel happiness again, he is using resources to avoid facing the facts and he has not done anything that gives him pleasure: "He has left everything, he is dead in life". He is "a blocked person."

As for the little brother, he has said that "he has been deprived of having a healthy family", because "beyond" a possible "overprotection and hyperalert" of his parents "is in an environment where his parents are neither happy nor healthy".

The impact of psychic injuries is great because "the smaller you are, the greater the consequences" because "your brain is developing".

The boy "hears his brother's name in the supermarket and throws himself on the ground in a tantrum: his identity has been stolen because he was Alex's brother."

According to The Trust Project criteria

Learn more

  • Lardero