Spanish couple accused of killing 12-year-old adopted Chinese daughter
Grisly accusations have emerged against a lawyer and a journalist suspected of drugging and suffocating their 12-year-old adopted daughter in a mysterious murder case that has shocked Spain.
Grisly accusations have emerged against a lawyer and a journalist suspected of drugging and suffocating their 12-year-old adopted daughter in a mysterious murder case that has shocked Spain.
Passers-by found the dead body of Asunta Yong Fang Basterra Porto, a schoolgirl who was born in China and adopted as a baby by the suspects, in a wood in northwestern Spain on September 22.
For weeks since, media have run pictures of the girl's adoptive mother, Rosario Porto, weeping and wrapped in a purple shawl as police detained her and searched her home.
A 44-year-old Spanish lawyer, Porto previously served as an honorary consul for France in the Galicia region.
Other shots have shown the other chief suspect in handcuffs, her ex-husband, Alfonso Basterra, a bespectacled 49-year-old journalist who is Asunta's adoptive father.
[The father] administered to the child a toxic dose of a sedative at his home
Then there is a photograph that Asunta had apparently posted of herself, smiling and dressed in a vest and shorts, on a playful blog written in English, describing herself as a "ghost hunter".