On Monday, 11-year-old Iñaki was enjoying time with friends in the neighborhood's common pool. When he got out of the water, he touched a streetlight and suffered a fatal electric shock. Despite a neighbor, who is a doctor, attempting to resuscitate him and an ambulance arriving to assist, they confirmed that the defibrillator was not working and the child died. It was determined during the trial that when the electrician arrived at the scene and measured the voltage from the streetlight, it was discharging 220 volts, which could be considered a deadly weapon. "We will not let justice look the other way," stated Magdalena Rioboo, the boy's mother. Prior to this trial, two other individuals were convicted in a summary trial. "This was achieved through the struggle and not giving up," said Gastón Bohn, Iñaki's father, in front of the courthouse. "Whether it's a lot or a little, no one is going to give Iñaki back to me." Hernán Lucero, the maintenance manager of the country club, was also accused in the trial but was acquitted. The first was sentenced to four years in prison, while the second to four and a half years in prison plus eight years of professional disqualification, as reported by the Noticias Argentinas news agency. "We needed them to be convicted," the child's father emphasized. On Wednesday, December 23, the Correctional Court No. 5 of Quilmes condemned the administrator and the electrician of the Altos de Hudson II country club for the death of Iñaki Bohn Rioboo. The verdict was handed down after nine years of waiting. The ruling was made public this Monday by Judge Sandra Martucci against Santiago Domingo Collavini, the administrator of the country club, and Rubén Daniel Bentolila, responsible for the electrical installation. These were architect and project director Guillermo Marcial Franco and Enrique Rodrigo Rocha, an electrical maintenance employee, who received a one-year suspended prison sentence and five years of professional disqualification. The case. On February 22, 2017, it was just another day.
Court Convicts Those Responsible for Boy's Death from Electric Shock
A Quilmes court has delivered a verdict in the case of 11-year-old Iñaki Bohn Rioboo, who died in 2017 after being electrocuted by a streetlight in his residential complex. The administrator and electrician were found guilty.