Overview

• In Moreno, Cristian Deivy Torrico Mendoza, 30, confessed to asphyxiating 4-year-old Sebastián Emanuel Yafrate and was detained on aggravated homicide charges.
• Security footage from Pedro Agote street shows him leaving home around 10 a.m. carrying the child wrapped in a sheet, and the video is now in judicial custody.
• Doctors at Hospital Mariano y Luciano de la Vega alerted police to injuries consistent with abuse, and UFI No. 4 ordered an autopsy and Policía Científica work while probing prior warnings and possible omissions.
• The boy’s mother, Florencia Yafrate, remains available to the judiciary to expand her statement after telling police the child had said he was beaten.
• In Río Tercero, Córdoba, a 19-year-old is hospitalized with a stab wound and his 31-year-old stepfather is detained as prosecutor Paula Bruera handles a case labeled serious injuries that could be reclassified.