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Catarroja Judge Expands Autopsy to Recognize Unborn Child as 229th DANA Flood Victim

A 2011 civil registry provision requires the six-month-old fetus to be inscribed by name in official records.

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Barranco del Poyo o de Torrent a su paso por Paiporta, en una imagen de archivo.

Overview

  • The Juzgado de Primera Instancia e Instrucción 3 de Catarroja ordered the Institute of Legal Medicine in Valencia to amend the autopsy of a flood victim to note her pregnancy of over six months.
  • Including the fetus under the 2011 civil registry rule would raise the confirmed death toll from 228 to 229 following the October 29, 2024 disaster.
  • The autopsy expansion mandates the unborn child’s name be entered in the Civil Registry for full recognition in the ongoing judicial process.
  • Magistrate Nuria Ruiz Tobarra clarified that the decision to register the fetus is independent of any criminal classification of the flood’s circumstances.
  • The court has scheduled testimony from around 20 affected relatives between July and September as part of the broader investigation into the flood’s causes and accountability.