Buenos Aires: A 10-year-old boy killed his father to defend his mother against beatings

The man, identified as Sergio Juárez – 36 years old – was taken to the Sanguinetti Hospital in Pilar, but the doctors They could not do anything to save his life because of the severity of the injury.

Juarez had been denounced by his wife for badual violence and, this weekend, he again attacked when his grandson took the woman's defense using a knife for domestic use.

As reported El Diario de Pilar, the tragic episode was recorded Sunday around 14h in a house in the town of Champagnat, where lived Juarez, his wife and their two children of 10 and 15 years.

Juarez's story had been viralized on social networks on October 18, when a video in which he was seen working as a bricklayer while he had no two legs.

Juarez was a mason and a parquiste who had lost his legs in a railway accident while he was only 8 years old, when he fell on the San Martin railway in Bella Vista , a city of Buenos Aires.

Police sources said that there had been a strong family discussion at the mason's home; neighbors told the local media that this type of situation was "everyday" instead.

In the midst of this brawl, the man allegedly began to beat his wife in the presence of the two children. At that time, the youngest of them, aged 10, took a knife and stabbed his father in the lower back.

Seeing her husband bleeding, the woman called for emergencies and an ambulance approached the address. She went urgently to Juarez, to Sanguinetti Hospital, where death was finally confirmed after the operation.

The case was the responsibility of the law on the criminal responsibility of minors in Pilar, in charge of the prosecutor Paula Romeo.