Zaragoza (EFE).- The Teruel National Police have arrested the parents of a lifeless fetus found in September 2018 in a water treatment plant in the city.
Within the framework of an operation called Baby, the agents of the Teruel Provincial Police Station, after four years of investigations, have been able to arrest two people, aged 29 and 34, as allegedly responsible for the death of a 24-week fetus , reports from the National Police.
At the end of September 2018, an employee of the Teruel wastewater treatment plant who was emptying the fecal water inlet well observed that a human fetus was floating in the water. It was the fetus of a girl 24 weeks pregnant and with a development that made life viable, having been able to breathe.
Initially, it was not possible to determine who the perpetrators were, but samples of the genetic profile were collected to search for matches with a relationship of kinship.
Thanks to the database of genetic profiles
In the year 2022, and after the corresponding judicial authorization, a new search for coincidences was carried out with new genetic profiles inserted in the databases and a positive result was obtained in which the paternal-filial relationship was established between the fetus found and a 29-year-old resident of Teruel.
As a consequence of the identification of the father, it was later possible to identify the mother. The maternal-filial relationship was confirmed through studies carried out by the laboratory of the General Police Station for Scientific Police. The detainees were handed over to Teruel Investigating Court number 1.
The Police explain that this investigation, reactivated and with a positive result four years after it began, is the result of “the permanent review of unresolved crimes” that, thanks to the “coordination and tenacity” of the agents, “there are no remaining unpunished,” they warn.
