Overview
- The child was taken to Hospital Municipal Arturo Illia without vital signs and pronounced dead after about 40 minutes of resuscitation, according to hospital reports and multiple news outlets.
- A preliminary autopsy by the Morgue Judicial de Pinamar found obstructive asphyxia that caused severe hypoxemia and cardiac arrest and reported no external traumatic injuries.
- Fiscal Juan Pablo Calderón opened an inquiry for 'averiguación de causales de muerte', ordered expanded autopsy work and toxicology tests, and retained the body while investigators gather more evidence.
- Police executed a judicial search of the family home, seized documents and items for the case, and separated a four‑year‑old sibling for medical and protective evaluation.
- The mother was previously tried and acquitted in a 2018 Mar del Plata case over a 2016 infant death, and past family records include reports of a Munchausen‑by‑proxy diagnosis that prosecutors are treating as contextual information while awaiting forensic confirmation before any charges.