Overview

• Audiencia Provincial de Málaga convicted both parents of habitual maltreatment and domestic violence against their daughters, aged 47 days and two years at the time.
• The father was also found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm for immersing the newborn in hot water and received a total prison term of 16 years.
• The court acquitted the mother of directly inflicting the baby’s burns but sentenced her to four years for habitual abuse, citing her legal duty to protect the child.
• Medical reports detailed second‑degree immersion burns requiring 20 days in ICU and long‑term sequelae for the baby, along with marked malnutrition and other injuries.
• Doctors found scars on the toddler compatible with cigarette burns, and child-protection authorities ordered provisional removal and foster placement, with restraining orders and loss of parental authority imposed.