“I’m sorry, your son saw something he shouldn’t see”: mother returns home to find her two-year-old son suffocated next to grisly letter

A brutal crime is moving Paraguay: a woman found his 2-year-old son dead and the 14 others missing on return from work.

It was around 5 p.m. when the woman arrived at her home in the Bernardino Caballero neighborhood of the city of Pedro Juan Caballero and found the boy lying in bed, covered with a sheet and without sign of life. Her other 14-year-old son, who had been in the care of his younger brother, was missing.

In the house there was a note that said: “Sorry, your son saw something he shouldn’t see. We have the other oldest son “.

The woman took the boy’s body to the Pedro Juan Caballero Regional Hospital, but the boy had already been dead for several hours, as determined by forensics.

The first hypothesis of the police was that strangers entered the residence and, after killing the child, proceeded to kidnap the teenager. However, this information was rejected thanks to a recording of a security camera in which the young man leave alone house with an unknown destination, according to the Paraguayan newspaper The nation.

Images They corroborated the owner’s account of the House where the family lives, who told the police that “around noon he saw the two little brothers playing in the yard, then they came back into the room, and that around 3:30 p.m. he saw the older brother heading for the street”, According to Commissioner Hugo Díaz told the newspaper the Chronicle.

“It is assumed that it is the minor who wrote the letterThe researchers noted. According to the data, no signs of violence were found or the sexual abuse of the child’s body, for which the police believe the suffocation was accidental or the product of some play.

The prosecution ordered grab the teenager’s notebooks to submit them to an expert report and thus determine whether the letter was written in their own handwriting. The 14-year-old is currently the prime suspect in the death of his own brother, police said.

The medical examiner estimated that the baby arrived at the hospital with rigor mortis around four to five hours, so it is presumed that he died between one or two in the afternoon.

According to local media, the parents have been separated and the mother of the boys crossed the border with Brazil daily to go to work, the boys were left alone.