"I lived with the knife in my hand, out of fear": the drama of the 10-year-old boy who killed his father to defend his mother

Crawling, without his orthopedic legs, with a butcher knife stuck in his back and spitting blood from his mouth. So it came out Sergio Juárez (34) from your home in the city of Agustoni, party of Pilar, after being stabbed by T., his 10 year old sonwho attacked him Sunday at noon to defend his mother from the blows that the man was carrying to the woman.

"I saw how he came out without legs, with the knife stuck. Since he did not have his legs, the boy was at the same height as him and that's why he could stab him. That day, they were having a barbecue and I suddenly saw him injured at the entrance to the house, asking for help. Seeing that no one was doing anything, I took him to my car, "said a neighbor Infobae.

Hearing the cries of the wounded and seeing Juarez almost dead on the street, the neighbor left, he had him in his car and took him to Sanguinetti hospitalwhere he finally died. The same woman that he had beaten, his partner, the boy's mother, accompanied him on his journey. "She went with him and told him "We'll be here, Dad, stay calm. Meanwhile, the blood was coming out of his mouthHer head was outside the window and she was crying. "

The anguished child I ran away while his father was taken by ambulance. His older brother, aged 15, was behind him. The boy was apprehended soon after, with a case in charge of the juvenile prosecutor Paula Romeo.

Back to Agustoni, an area of ​​precarious homes, vacant lots and vacant lots where a 22-year-old drug trafficker was arrested in July of this year, accused of recruiting "soldiers" For them to sell drugs in the dirt streets, everything was confused. At first nobody knew what caused such a drama. The opinions of neighbors are always diverse and the crime keeps causing surprise.

On the one hand, some say that the family tried to look like another and that "There was nothing odd"while others say that all the time there was shouting in the house and the music was loud. But there is something that they coincide: Juarez, mason by trade, who he lost his legs after an accident and mobilized with crutches or in a wheelchair, beat and mistreat his wife and, with more or less detail, it was We know that violence has dominated family life.

"I did not know them very much, but every time I saw them, they held hands and stood, they seemed to love each other, although I know that he was shaking her all the time. It always happens. I work all day and more I do not know them. But beyond that, there was no reason to think that it could happen, "said a neighbor who lives 50 meters from the crime scene, while another witness, in turn , went in the same direction and badured that "It was an educated family, even though we all knew that guy had beaten it."

Nail mother's friend He asked the media to book his identity and explained in detail how it was. day by day of the family and the tragedy they have suffered because of the abuses inflicted by Juarez. In the midst of this ordeal, T. scared.

"He beat her all the time. She denounced him several times but that did not help. The abuse was constant and the little one saw it every day. Who knows what had to go through his head to kill him? All the time we saw him with the knife in the baby's hand for fear, as he was preparing to attack it at any time"the friend said.

According to him, the mother of the child worked as a servant and sometimes worked as a mason. "After the accident in which he lost his legs, he hardly worked, he was drugged all day", added the friend of the miner's mother.

Next to the house where the tragedy occurred Juarez's brother lives, who refused to talk about what happened when he saw the presence of the press. His wife, sister-in-law of the deceased, barely said that the boys, after the tragedy, "they are protected" and denied accusations of gender violence that fell on the mason. "It's all a lie. Here it's nothing happened from what they say"said the woman who, after a few seconds, returned to isolate her at home without providing more information.

The friend of the baby's mother has however insisted that it ends with her or with him dead. "Whenever this happens, the woman is the one who ends up being murdered and soon after, the free guy. Here the baby came forward, but it was going to end in tragedy "added the woman, who contributed to her story a troubling fact. As he said, relatives of the deceased "They are waiting for the little boy to come back to fight him, because they are sure to do it."

We know very little about the neighborhood about the condition of the mother of the child who has not returned home and her two children. The sister-in-law said that they were staying in the house "to rest and wait for everything to happen"but the boy's mother's friend said that the police had taken them away to protect them.

The case fell under the law on the criminal responsibility of minors in Pilar, in charge of the prosecutor Paula Romeo. From his office, they did not provide any information on the whereabouts of the boys, the cause being reserved on the grounds that it is one of them. case involving a minor.

From the story of overcoming tragedy

"It's a lie. He did not work and hit him. I did not do anything From time to time, he worked in a job, but he pbaded it with his drugged brother. He lived from this and many said that he was deal. Nobody was going to imagine that", the friend described to refer to the way of life of Juarez and his story, which became viral after a video on YouTube and WhatsApp in which he was seen in the middle of the job, removing the prosthesis from his legs to work was not what everyone imagined.

At 8 years old Juarez was a victim of a railway accident and, thanks to the prosthesis, he was able to exercise mason activities. The train cut his legs to his ankles, but because of complications, they had to amputate his lower limbs almost at the knees.

"He has a mobile handicap but that does not affect him at all", described Sergio Ochnicki, who recorded it on video two months ago and uploaded the sequence on Facebook to recommend it as a mason.

But the true face of the man was very far from the story to overcome what was supposed Police sources, like the neighbors, told this newspaper that the woman repeatedly denounced him for the beatings and the violence that he exerted on her, until he was finally killed by his own son. "They were always together because they were scared of her and boys", sentenced the friend.