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Oscar Antonio Candussi was found guilty of the crime of manslaughter of José Carlos “Kily” Rivero, the four-year-old boy who died in 2012.
An agricultural producer from the town of Lavalle, in Corrientes, was sentenced this Thursday to three years in prison for the death of a child as a result of poisoning with agrochemicals.
This is Oscar Antonio Candussi, who received a suspended three-year prison sentence for the crime of culpable homicide of José Carlos “Kily” Rivero, the four-year-old boy who died in 2012 from acute poisoning as a result of fumigation.
Candussi was found guilty due to the evidence of having sprayed his tomato plantation with pesticides 15 meters away from where the little boy lived, who was a victim of poisoning.
Oscar Antonio Candussi received a suspended sentence of three years in prison for the crime of manslaughter of José Carlos “Kily” Rivero
With this argument it is that the complaint, in charge of the lawyer Hermindo González, requested 14 years in prison for the crime of “Simple Homicide with eventual intent”, provided for and punishable by article 79 of the Penal Code. “It is not an act of guilt, but of fraud, because the result was represented and he did not care about it,” he insisted.
And he explained that, although the defendant did not want to directly cause the child’s death, due to his activity as an agricultural producer and experience, he should know that if he used pesticides that reached the child’s family, it could cause consequences and even death.
María Eugenia Sánchez, the victim’s mother, lamented that “11 years have passed for the trial to be held” and expressed her hope that “awareness will be raised, so that what Kily experienced does not happen to any other child.”
The houses in Lavalle, Corrientes, just meters from the tomato plantation where pesticides were thrown.
The penalty ordered by the Goya Court was adjusted to the request of the trial prosecutor, Guillermo Barry. Meanwhile, the defense had requested the acquittal of the accused and that he be declared innocent.
The Goya Trial Court, with jurisdiction in the town of Lavalle, opened the last day of debate at 9, heard the last witnesses who closed the testimonial gathering stage, enabled the arguments and deliberated from noon until issuing the decision. sentence this afternoon.
The judges in charge of the process were Jorge Antonio Carbone, as president of the court, together with Ricardo Diego Carbajal and Darío Alejandro Ortiz.
The tragic death of “Kily” Rivero in Lavalle
Little José “Kily” Rivero died on May 12, 2012 due to cardiorespiratory arrest due to fulminant liver failure of toxic origin, according to medical reports, clinical histories, chemical reports, and autopsy, among others.
His death occurred at the Garrahan Hospital in the city of Buenos Aires, after being referred from the Juan Pablo II Pediatric Hospital in the Capital of Corrientes.
José Carlos “Kily” Rivero, the four-year-old boy who died in 2012.
He arrived at that medical center from Goya, a city near Lavalle, with a picture of vomiting, abdominal pain, photophobia, general decay and tests compatible with liver failure.
After the complaint from his parents, who claimed that they had been poisoned by the spraying that the Candussi company carried out just 15 meters from his house, in a tomato plantation, the Justice began an investigation that took more than a decade. to be brought to trial.
Kily’s family also had to mourn the death of her 15-year-old sister Antonela in 2021 from cancer. The doctors established that she was not linked to agrochemicals.
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