In 2013, the murder of the 12-year-old girl Asunta Basterra Porto left Spanish society breathless. After a long and tedious judicial procedure, the girl’s parents were accused of murder and sentenced to 18 years in prison for the crime.
Alfonso Basterra and Rocío Porto never acknowledged responsibility for the events and, while the Basque is still serving his sentence in the Teixeiro penitentiary, Rosario Porto committed suicide in 2020 in her cell at the Brieva prison, Ávila.
The case has once again been on everyone’s lips thanks to the overwhelming success of the new Netflix series, The Asunta Case. The audiovisual giant has presented this work as a ”fiction based on real events”, so, although some parts present variations, it is a recreation of everything the family experienced in 2013.
In the series, which is already the most watched in our country, you can see how, during the investigation phase, the judge orders the houses of Asunta’s parents to be searched. Although they had problems finding Basterra’s computer (first it was in his apartment, later he ‘hid it’ and finally it reappeared in the building), the Police investigated it and found sensitive material.
According to investigation sources, the father had deleted all types of material that could be considered controversial from the electronic device, as well as several family photos of his daughter.
When the case broke out, it was learned that Basterra stored erotic and pornographic material of women with Asian features on his laptop, something that set off all the alarms, since the couple adopted Asunta when she was little in China.
As published by La Voz de Galicia at the time and can be seen in the series starring Candela Peña and Tristán Ulloa, the father saved different images of Asunta with ‘provocative’ clothing (a corset and some stockings). Said outfit supposedly corresponded to a festival to which they had to go in disguise, but the researchers made it clear that the photos were “macabre” and “difficult for a parent to explain”, since the girl presented different strange postures.
In these photos (and in others that were found) it seemed that the girl was extremely tired, asleep or drugged, something that caught the attention of the Police, since it was shown that the couple had been giving the girl tranquilizers. for months and that, on the day of the murder, she had no more and no less than 27 one-milligram pills of lorazepam in her system.
