{"id":522913,"date":"2026-09-01T17:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/almost-a-year-after-his-babys-death-at-an-asfl-in-santiago-father-is-still-waiting-for-autopsy-results\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:04:33","slug":"almost-a-year-after-his-babys-death-at-an-asfl-in-santiago-father-is-still-waiting-for-autopsy-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/almost-a-year-after-his-babys-death-at-an-asfl-in-santiago-father-is-still-waiting-for-autopsy-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost a year after his baby&#8217;s death at an ASFL in Santiago, father is still waiting for autopsy results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo, DR. &#8211; <\/strong>The passing of the infant <strong>Yazlin Isabela<\/strong>, which occurred under the custody of a Non-Profit Association (ASFL) in Santiago, an entity subcontracted by the State, has exposed a crisis of transparency and alarming negligence in the Dominican child protection system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an appearance this Tuesday on the program <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@estonoesradio2242\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Esto No es Radio Show&#8217;<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Juan Graciano Cruz<\/strong>, the father of the minor, denounced that ten months after the loss of his daughter, who was just <strong>three months and twelve days old<\/strong>, the judicial system continues to deny him access to the official autopsy results. The lack of this forensic document constitutes a critical barrier that prevents transforming visual evidence of negligence into concrete criminal charges. This void of answers shifts the conflict from the medical sphere to the realm of the State&#8217;s legal responsibility, where the institutional machinery seems to have been activated not to protect the victim, but to shield the officials involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>YOU CAN ALSO READ: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-de-ltimo-minuto wp-block-embed-de-ltimo-minuto\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ZsFbCeWkPB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/nacionales\/identifican-extranjero-encontrado-muerto-en-canada-de-los-alcarrizos\/\">Identifican extranjero encontrado muerto en ca\u00f1ada de Los Alcarrizos<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u00abIdentifican extranjero encontrado muerto en ca\u00f1ada de Los Alcarrizos\u00bb \u2014 De \u00daltimo Minuto\" src=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/nacionales\/identifican-extranjero-encontrado-muerto-en-canada-de-los-alcarrizos\/embed\/#?secret=j40CllnOgA#?secret=ZsFbCeWkPB\" data-secret=\"ZsFbCeWkPB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The intervention of the protection system originated when <strong>Juan Graciano Cruz<\/strong>, detecting that the girl&#8217;s mother was going through an extreme mental health crisis \u2014even going so far as to <strong>cut her veins<\/strong>\u2014, went to the juvenile court seeking to safeguard his daughter. However, instead of recognizing the suitability of the father, who offered to pay out of his own pocket for <strong>drug tests<\/strong> for himself and the mother in the face of accusations of alleged &#8220;vices&#8221; launched by prosecutor <strong>Angelina Santos<\/strong>, the system decided to displace the parent&#8217;s claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutor <strong>Angelina Santos<\/strong>, whom the father directly points to for her actions, ordered the transfer of <strong>Yazlin Isabela<\/strong> to the <strong>National Council for Children and Adolescents (CONANI)<\/strong> after a provisional guardianship with an aunt failed. The minor was admitted to the <strong>&#8216;Red de Misericordia&#8217;<\/strong> facility in Santiago, directed by <strong>Olga Mariano Boa Fern\u00e1ndez de Arrocha<\/strong>. Barely ten days after her admission, the family was summoned to the prosecutor&#8217;s office where they were notified of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/nacionales\/conani-afirma-que-hogar-de-paso\/\">baby&#8217;s<\/a> death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The center&#8217;s official version alleges a &#8220;seizure.&#8221; However, the father claims to possess compelling photographic evidence that contradicts this thesis: the infant showed traces of milk flowing from her <strong>eyes and ears<\/strong>, an unequivocal sign of pulmonary aspiration due to alleged lack of supervision while being fed. This contradiction between the version provided by the NPO <strong>&#8216;Red de Misericordia&#8217;<\/strong> and the physical evidence captured by the father makes the <strong>INACIF<\/strong> autopsy the definitive forensic piece to break the wall of silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Juan Graciano Cruz<\/strong>, transformed into a symbol of the fight against bureaucratic indifference, has made his position clear to the authorities who are now betting on oblivion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I will not rest because I promised her at the grave. As long as I am alive, have my two feet and my mouth to speak, I will keep moving forward like a soldier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u00a1NO AGUANTA M\u00c1S! 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