“I never saw anything like it, there was no way to save it,” said the coroner who performed the autopsy on the body of Fernando Báez Sosa

The defendants without a chinstrap (Ezequiel Acuña)

Diego Duarte, the forensic scientist from the Scientific Police who performed the autopsy on the body of Fernando Báez Sosa, testified in the trial against the rugby players and described the marks left by punches and kicks on the body of the young law student. “I never saw anything like it, there was no way to save it,” said the doctor after his testimony before the Oral Criminal Court No. 1 of Dolores.

“I have never seen anything like this,” said the witness and, with a broken voice before the microphones, added: “The patient suffered damage to the entire central nervous system, both the brain, cerebellum, and brain stem, there is not a single lesion, there are multiple … The truth is that being a father is very strong”.

The traumatologist explained that Fernando had “injuries incompatible with life, many lesions in the central nervous system,” adding that he believes that “he would not have had a chance of being saved.” In addition, the coroner stated that the painting he found showed “visible viciousness on the body, with multiple injuries.”

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“They were multi-causal injuries, where there are injuries to various organs, so it is a sum of everything. But even though he has isolated lesions, both in the liver and in the lung, the most important thing is the nervous system ”, he highlighted.

Diego Duarte, the coroner who did Fernando’s autopsy

“The marks that we observe are very evident and compatible with the figure that was printed by a shoe,” Duarte responded when asked about the print he found on Fernando’s face.

In addition, he said that, together with his team, he carried out an “recognition” of some of the defendants and that they presented “marks compatible with having hit.”

On the other hand, the coroner explained that, during a “neurogenic shock” like the one suffered by the 18-year-old, the brain “suffers significant damage where it stops working, due to irrigation, vascularization, bleeding, so it does not have the enough nutrients to continue with life” and he pointed out: “To have a closed head injury and with those injuries inside it, without having a fracture, they would have to be very strong blows.”

“I think he suffers a ‘knock out’ trauma and then has no chance to defend himself and, in my opinion and, from what I see, I think that’s what happened, some injuries may be post mortem,” he concluded.

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Before the doctor sat down in front of the podium, Fernando’s parents, Graciela Sosa and Silvino Báez, withdrew from the room to avoid witnessing the description of the injuries that caused their son’s death.

Before the Oral Criminal Court No. 1 of Dolores, Duarte specified that in the autopsy he detected “an acute brain injury” that produced “instantaneous death in the patient.”

“The most important lesions are in the brain and face,” he explained, and assured that he also had a “liver tear” and that a complementary report determined that there were other lesions in a lung.

“The most affected parts” in the brain stem, he assured, “are those that house the vital functions of the organism”, and detailed that Fernando suffered “multidirectional blows” and “enough” to “damage the brain against the bone wall” .

Graciela Sosa holds a photo of her son (Gastón Taylor)

Regarding the imprint that the victim had on his face, he specified that it corresponded to a “direct blow with very high energy.”

“We work with a protocol that I complied with,” he explained to the judges. “The autopsy was carried out in the morgue of the Pinamar hospital. I first saw the victim in Villa Gesell. I became aware of the case, I found out that Fernando was in the Villa Gesell hospital and since I live on the corner of the hospital, I crossed to see how he was doing. I did a preliminary examination to have a visualization of what I was going to find in the autopsy ”, he clarified.

“Fernando was lying on a bed, he had multiple attacks on his face. I asked for a CT scan to see a general picture of what was on the body. The result took a while to arrive. I saw him and he had a significant hemorrhage inside his skull. In addition, I took images with my private cell phone to have an approximation of the characteristics of the injuries that I still have on my phone, ”he recounted.

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Prosecutor Gustavo García asked the Court that the witness show the photos that the expert kept on his cell phone. However, at the request of the rugbiers’ lawyer, Hugo Tomei, only the official photos taken in the morgue of the Pinamar Hospital and sent to the forensic report were screened in TOC 1.

“As seen on the body, the marks it presented, the external injuries, coincide with the high-energy mechanisms that cause instantaneous death in the patient,” he said, adding: “The majority of the blows were on the face and skull. They are central areas because most of the body’s functions are housed there,” Duarte explained.

Graciela Sosa and Silvino Báez in Dolores (Ezequiel Acuña)

“The brain stem was what presented the most damage,” he specified.

Then, at the defense’s request, the coroner stood up to point out the defibrillator mark on the body. “You cannot measure the intensity of the blows at autopsy. Nor can the number of blows the victim received be determined,” Duarte said after being consulted by Tomei who is trying to convince the Court that the resuscitation maneuvers could have caused Fernando’s death.

Like the rest of the testimonies, Duarte’s statement was witnessed by the eight defendants: Máximo Thomsen (23), Enzo Comelli (22), Matías Benicelli (23), Blas Cinalli (21), Ayrton Viollaz (23), and Luciano (21), Ciro (22) and Lucas Pertossi (23). Today, for the first time, the rugbiers showed their faces without a mask.

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