• International: Seven soldiers admit to raping a 13-year-old indigenous girl in Colombia

A four-year-old girl who went into a coma after being raped and beaten by a man last Monday in the Colombian municipality of Garzón, in the department of Huila (south), has died this Saturday, as reported by the medical center that the attended.

"We deeply regret the death of the minor patient in the early hours of today, July 4, 2020, due to intracranial hypertension refractory to management, multiple organ dysfunction secondary to severe encephalocranial trauma with polytrauma, " the Medilaser Clinic in Neiva has detailed. , departmental capital of Huila. The medical center added that "due to the type of death, a call was made to the Prosecutor's Office."

The case shocked Colombia because on June 29 the girl's parents realized that the girl was not there and began, together with the neighbors, to look for her in the Puerto Alegría farmhouse , which is part of Garzón.

At first they found a minor's sandal and a cell phone, "traces that, when followed, allowed the unconscious girl to be found on the banks of the Caguancito gorge , in the middle of two stones and half naked" and very close to her, a man who was turned over to the authorities, "the Prosecutor's Office detailed on Wednesday.

Due to the severity of the injuries, the girl was transferred to the Medilaser Clinic where "it was found that she was the victim of extreme sexual and physical violence ", so she was in a coma and with a reserved prognosis for "the multiple injuries she received in her private parts and the rest of the body, head, face, chest and abdomen. "

In this case, Sebastián Mieles Betín , 27, was arrested , whom the Prosecutor's Office accused before a judge for the crimes of attempted aggravated femicide in competition with aggravated violent carnal access.

The man, who did not accept the charges, faces a sentence, according to the Prosecutor's Office, of up to 30 years in prison .

On the other hand, the Army is in the eye of the hurricane for the denunciations of the last days of rapes of two girls, one of 12 years of the Embera-Chamí ethnic group by seven soldiers of the San Mateo Battalion in the department of Risaralda (center) , and another of 15 of the nomadic tribe nukak makú by two soldiers of the Joaquín París Battalion, in the Guaviare (southwest).

These cases are the tip of the iceberg judging by the revelation made on Wednesday by the Army commander, Major General Eduardo Zapateiro, that there are 118 members of the institution investigated since 2016 for allegations of rape and sexual abuse.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • Colombia
  • international

The Trump administration sues former security adviser John Bolton to prevent him from publishing his memoirs

HondurasThe President of Honduras and the first lady, infected with coronavirus

Letter to four European countries The US Treasury Secretary threatens Montero by the Google Rate and the minister reaffirms

See links of interest

  • News
  • Programming
  • Translator
  • Calendar
  • Horoscope
  • Classification
  • League calendar
  • Films
  • Themes
  • Girona - Real Zaragoza
  • Atlético de Madrid - Mallorca
  • Norwich City - Brighton and Hove Albion
  • Leicester City - Crystal Palace
  • Manchester United - Bournemouth