The woman accused of killing her 6-year-old daughter Olivia, a native of Segovia, in Gijón in October 2022, committed suicide this Sunday in the cell she occupied in the Asturias Penitentiary Center, judicial sources have confirmed to Efe.
On October 30, the Police found the girl who had already died in the apartment where the mother and daughter had lived for a few months, in the Gijón neighborhood of El Llano, apparently due to taking drugs, lying next to her mother, who She indicated that she had taken pills, for which she was taken to the hospital.
A day before, the judge had granted custody of the minor to the father, in dispute with the mother, who had remained in the Asturias Penitentiary Center since last November 2 when the head of the Court of Instruction number 1 decreed his entry into provisional prison. , communicated and without bail.
The events occurred shortly before midnight on Sunday, October 30, in an apartment located at number 71 Gaspar García Laviana Street, in the Gijón neighborhood of El Llano, where the woman and her daughter Olivia had been living for a few months.
After receiving a call alerting them to the disappearance of both, the agents managed to enter the apartment, located on the fourth floor, and found the deceased girl lying in bed next to her mother.
The woman indicated that she had taken pills and was evacuated, already detained, to the Jove hospital in Gijón for observation throughout the night, before being transferred the next day to the police station.
The minor’s father, Eugenio García, who was alerted at his home in Segovia by police officers, moved to Gijón in shock, where he told journalists that he had just obtained custody after a process that had lasted for five years. .
The girl had been left in the mother’s care during the weekend and the father was scheduled to travel with the minor to Segovia the following Monday.
