Overview

• Medical staff at Hospital Mariano y Luciano de la Vega alerted police after Sebastián Emanuel Yafrate, 4, arrived without vital signs and with injuries compatible with maltreatment.
• The child’s stepfather, Cristian Deivy Torrico Mendoza, 30, confessed to causing asphyxia and was detained under the accusation of aggravated homicide.
• UFI No. 4 Moreno–General Rodríguez, led by prosecutor Dr. Bornia, directed Policía Científica to conduct forensic work and the autopsy to confirm the precise cause of death.
• Investigators are reconstructing earlier episodes of violence and assessing whether family or institutional omissions occurred, after witnesses reported seeing the boy with injuries days before.
• The mother, Florencia Yafrate, is cooperating with authorities and remains available to expand her testimony as the judicial inquiry continues.