Overview

• Ruffo is accused of killing his 8-year-old son, Joaquín, in Lomas de Zamora and faces a charge of homicidio agravado por el vínculo, which carries a potential life sentence.
• A doctor at Hospital Gandulfo reported that Ruffo said, “I asphyxiated him to send a message to his mother,” and that statement was incorporated into the case file.
• Prosecutor Fabiola Juanatey requested that preventive detention be made effective, and Judge Gabriel Vitale must decide on the measure.
• Ruffo was discharged from intensive care and is now held under custody in the psychiatric ward of Unidad Penitenciaria N°34 in Melchor Romero.
• Investigators cite a broad evidentiary record, including witness accounts, phone interceptions and security camera footage, while Ruffo has so far declined to give a formal judicial statement.