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Neuquén Police Officer Charged with Injuring 9-Year-Old Girl

Police officer Camila Esperanza has been charged after hitting a 9-year-old girl with a police vehicle. The officer was speeding in a residential area, causing severe injuries to the child, leaving her with permanent and irreversible consequences.


Neuquén Police Officer Charged with Injuring 9-Year-Old Girl

A Neuquén police agent, Camila Esperanza, has been charged with injuries caused to a 9-year-old girl, whom she ran over with a police vehicle in the city of Plottier. According to the Argentine News Agency and as reported by the Neuquén Public Prosecutor's Office, the charges were filed by the case prosecutor, Andrés Azar, who recalled the incident that occurred on November 19, 2025, at the intersection of Reconquista and Güemes streets. As indicated by the prosecution's representative, at the time of the offense, the accused was driving a pickup truck assigned to the regional police station at a minimum estimated speed of 72.82 km/h in an area where the maximum allowed speed is 30 km/h. Furthermore, the account stated that the officer did not use sirens or flashing lights, and after losing control of the vehicle, she crashed into two bicycles in which two girls were riding. One of them was hit, while the other managed to avoid the collision by jumping off the vehicle. The victim was urgently taken to a local hospital and then transferred to the Castro Rendón Hospital in the city of Neuquén, where she was admitted with multiple traumas, as well as neurological, respiratory, and orthopedic injuries. The injuries were documented in medical reports and expert examinations incorporated into the file, and it was determined that the minor will suffer permanent and irreversible consequences, requiring constant medical care for her life support. Azar attributed the incident to reckless and non-regulatory driving of the official vehicle, significantly exceeding the permitted speed in a residential area and failing to activate the sound and light emergency systems required by current regulations. The case was provisionally captioned as 'grievous bodily injury by negligence, aggravated by reckless and non-regulatory driving of a motor vehicle and by speeding'.

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