MADRID (Reuters) - The parents of a Spanish toddler who fell into an illegally-excavated well a year ago, setting off a frantic rescue effort that grabbed international attention, have reached a legal settlement with the landowner, prosecutors said on Monday.
The trial over the death of the two-year-old boy Julen in Totalan in southern Spain had been set to begin on Tuesday, a year after the nearly two-week, round-the-clock operation to rescue him. Now the judge is simply expected to ratify the out-of-court deal.
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