The National Police has arrested a 23 -year -old man in Valencia who kidnapped his baby of only two months in Medina del Campo (Valladolid) and tried to take it to Romania. The mother, a minor and sexist violence, denounced the authorities of the subtraction of her child and for recurring episodes of gender violence in addition to the threat of her partner to move with him to the country of Eastern Europe. The police mobilization served to detect that both were traveling by bus and intercepting it in Valencia, where the man was arrested and the recovered baby.
The events happened last Sunday, August 3, when the child went from Medina del Campo to alert that her partner prevented her from entering her home, held the son they have in common and had told him that he was going to take him to Romania. The girl also denounced that she usually suffered sexist violence, physical and psychological damage, for which she demanded a protection order. The young woman appears in the VioGen system of protection of victims. The agents warned the Minors Prosecutor and initiated an “urgent investigation of the possible subtraction of a minor with the intention of being transferred to Romania by their parent.”
The researchers discovered that the man had escaped with the baby on a bus that joined Medina and Romania making various stops along the peninsula. “At 9:20 p.m. it was confirmed that the bus would make a stop at 11 at night at a service station” of the A-3 highway, the National Police said, which had already proven that there were a man with a baby. The operation, coordinated with the Civil Guard, allowed Ribarroja agents, in the Valencian demarcation of Chiva, stopped the individual and recover the child in a gas station where he had stopped the bus.
The baby was provisionally welcomed in a minor center in Valencia and the mother receives help from social services as a teenage mother.
The telephone 016 serves the victims of sexist violence, their families and their surroundings 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in 53 different languages. The number is not registered on the telephone bill, but you have to erase the device call. You can also contact via email and by WhatsApp in the number 600 000 016. The minors can go to the telephone of the Anar 900 20 20 10. If it is an emergency situation, the telephones of the National Police (091) and the Civil Guard (062) can be called at 112 OA. And in case of not being able to call, the alertcops application can be used, from which an alert signal to the police with geolocation is sent.
