Overview
- A child of about one to one-and-a-half years was found dead inside a rented dwelling in the Vista Alegre settlement of Chorrillos during the night of Saturday, October 10.
- Police, Ministerio Público prosecutors and criminalistics teams secured the scene, collected evidence and moved the body for medico-legal examinations.
- The child's mother, identified in reports as María Benítez (also named María Benites Treviño), remains in police custody as the principal suspect while authorities continue their investigation.
- Two other minors were found in the home with alleged signs of abandonment and physical harm and have been placed under the protection of competent child-welfare authorities.
- Neighbor testimony about frequent crying and alleged mistreatment is part of the preliminary record, one outlet reported prior police records for the mother but that claim has not been corroborated across coverage.