The results of the autopsy carried out on 17-year-old Argentinian María Melina Caputo Flores, who died in August 2019, show that she died due to electrocution, as her parents have claimed, and not due to natural causes. The director of the National Pathology Institute, Santo Jimenez Paez, confirmed this as the cause of her death to Diario Libre newspaper. The 17 August preliminary autopsy indicated the girl had been electrocuted.
Her parents said that she received an electric shock when climbing up the stairs from the sea to the wooden dock at the resort. The hotel has alleged there is no electrical installation at the point.
The child was staying with her parents at the Hotel Be Live Collection Canoa.
The mother and uncles of the deceased have complained that the provincial prosecutor for La Altagracia, Aneury Castillo de Jesús, is not doing anything at all, despite their official complaint.
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Diario Libre
Clarin
Hoy
1 October 2019