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Child Alerts Police to Knife Attack in Mar del Plata, Man Arrested

The victim requested urgent judicial measures for exclusion from the home with a restraining order.

Overview

  • The boy escaped the Parque Palermo home, stopped a patrol from the Parque Hermoso substation, and guided officers to the residence on Labardén at Benito Lynch.
  • Officers secured the woman, detained the approximately 40-year-old suspect, and seized two knives from the scene.
  • Prosecutor Mariana Baqueiro charged the detainee with aggravated injuries and qualified threats in a gender‑violence context and ordered his transfer to Unidad Penal No. 44 de Batán.
  • Police reported the 37-year-old victim suffered a superficial cut to the neck as the attacker pressed a knife with a bone-and-wood handle against her throat.
  • Authorities are withholding identities to protect the woman and her child as the court processes the requested protective measures.