Murder Of An Adoptive Daughter

These two parents, Alfonso Basterra and Rosario Porto killed their adoptive daughter in 2013 because they had grown tired of the kid they had accepted in 2001. They were fed up with the child’s outstanding performance and her need for activities.

Their adoptive daughter, Asunta Fon-Yang Basterro.

In 2001, the couple accepted Asunta from China. When they got her back to Santiago De-Compostela, they placed her in a room which occupied the whole floor in the area in what is recognized as the “VIP” zone, where upper-middle-class people reside.

They raised her to be a prodigy, Asunta attended piano, violin, ballet, English, and Chinese. In school, she was so brilliant that she jumped an academic year.

Then in 2013, her parents divorced but got back together. They continued to stay individually though.

On September 22, 2013, her corpse was discovered in a wooded region. She had blood-tinged mucus in her nose. In her postmortem, they discovered anxiolytic and lorazepam in her body system. On September 24, Porto and Alfonso were caught.

Detectives later thought that in the months before her killing, her parents have been giving her “white powder”. Her teachers and friends told her that they have noticed her half-asleep in classes and couldn’t walk right. On the day of her death, Alfonso bought 50 doses of orfidal. She then ingests a large amount of this and died of an overdose.

The couple then dumps the corpse in the wooded area, hoping that people thought that Asunta was kidnaped and murdered.

So what was the motive?

Detectives started to develop their theory. Asunta’s adopted parents, they agreed, had grown tired of the girl they had “bought” a decade earlier. The murder had been a carefully plotted try to rid themselves of an increasingly bothersome pre-adolescent child. The plot had included experimental dosing of the girl with Orfidal, careful disabling of their mobile phones, and a confident belief that they would be able to satisfy people that Asunta had been kidnaped and killed. Porto was the driving force behind the murder, they suspected, and had been disturbed by the recent deaths of her parents. A psychologist who had treated her in the weeks before the killing said that she had felt “overwhelmed” by Asunta.

They never needed to have children, then why adopt? The girl was so sharp, she could have become a scientist, inventor, etc.....