Overview
- The Audiencia de Barcelona, in a Thursday order, released the mother from pretrial custody and kept the father in provisional prison, while barring her from contacting or approaching the baby and from leaving the territory.
- Magistrates found the case against her had thinned, noting March Google searches where she flagged the father's treatment of the baby and no clear signs of her own violent conduct.
- The father's appeal failed after stronger indications pointed to him, including a hospital roommate's account that he covered the baby's mouth, shook the bed, and fed the infant with force.
- The baby, about six weeks old when admitted in March, had a broken femur, an intercostal injury, and anal fissures that a forensic expert said were inflicted rather than caused by illness.
- Prosecutors had urged continued detention for both over flight risk and possible pressure on witnesses, and investigators still await a genetic test on the infant and statements from doctors who treated the child before Vall d'Hebron.