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Critics say feminist and gender ideologies contributed to the failure of public authorities to intervene to protect the boy from the abuse he suffered at the hands of his mother and her lesbian partner.
BUENOS AIRES — A Catholic human rights advocate blamed a general loss of values for violence committed against children, while she called for impeaching a judge who granted custody of a 5-year-old boy to his mother and her lesbian partner, who tortured and later murdered him.
The savage crime shocked Argentina, and prompted its national Congress to pass a new law mandating all government employees must report suspected abuse. It has also provoked debate about the role that feminist and gender ideologies may have played in the boy’s murder.
In an extensive interview, 82-year-old Carmelite Sister Martha Pelloni, long celebrated for defending women and children, applauded the life sentence handed down on Feb. 17 to Magdalena Espósito, 24, and Abigail Páez, 27, in La Pampa, a province west of Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital. She called for the dismissal of Judge Ana Clara Pérez Ballester and for an investigation of doctors and teachers who knew of the tortures endured by little Lucio Dupuy, Espósito’s son, but failed to report their concerns to law enforcement.
Sister Martha told the Register, “Courts have a responsibility in this as does the clinic where Lucio was treated, and the school. All of this must be adjudicated.” She went on to say, “As a society, we want to know why there was no probe of the mother’s drug addiction nor of the several times the boy was treated at clinics. This should have been referred to law enforcement.”
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BUENOS AIRES — A Catholic human rights advocate blamed a general loss of values for violence committed against children, while she called for impeaching a judge who granted custody of a 5-year-old boy to his mother and her lesbian partner, who tortured and later murdered him.
The savage crime shocked Argentina, and prompted its national Congress to pass a new law mandating all government employees must report suspected abuse. It has also provoked debate about the role that feminist and gender ideologies may have played in the boy’s murder.
In an extensive interview, 82-year-old Carmelite Sister Martha Pelloni, long celebrated for defending women and children, applauded the life sentence handed down on Feb. 17 to Magdalena Espósito, 24, and Abigail Páez, 27, in La Pampa, a province west of Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital. She called for the dismissal of Judge Ana Clara Pérez Ballester and for an investigation of doctors and teachers who knew of the tortures endured by little Lucio Dupuy, Espósito’s son, but failed to report their concerns to law enforcement.
Sister Martha told the Register, “Courts have a responsibility in this as does the clinic where Lucio was treated, and the school. All of this must be adjudicated.” She went on to say, “As a society, we want to know why there was no probe of the mother’s drug addiction nor of the several times the boy was treated at clinics. This should have been referred to law enforcement.”
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Catholic Nun Demands Impeachment of Argentinian Judge Who Granted Custody to Mother Who Murdered Her Own Son
Critics say feminist and gender ideologies contributed to the failure of public authorities to intervene to protect the boy from the abuse he suffered at the hands of his mother and her lesbian partner.
