• The facts They arrest the father of Yéremi Vargas accused of sexually assaulting his 13-year-old daughter

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Juan Francisco Vargas

- better known as the father of Yéremi Vargas, the Canarian boy who disappeared since 2007 while playing with his cousins ​​in a field - has attributed the complaint of sexual abuse to his 13-year-old daughter for which he was arrested to a "plot".

This is indicated in a letter addressed to

The Summer Program

in which he insists on his innocence.

Vargas was arrested after the girl's mother - who is not the same woman as Yéremi's mother - denounced the events last Saturday, when her daughter was spending a few days with her father and his new partner.

"They made a plot to me, my daughter had not spoken to me for a month and a half," says the investigator.

"My daughter came to my girlfriend's house and got into our bed to see a movie," the man details in the letter sent to the television program.

"I fell asleep and my daughter woke me up saying that I had tried to rape her. I fainted from the shock, I was convulsed on the floor," he concludes.

The facts

The arrest took place in

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

this Monday, after the complaint filed by the mother of the minor before the National Police after the girl called her by phone on Saturday night alerting her of the alleged abuse.

The detainee passed this Tuesday at the disposal of the Court of Instruction 6 of Las Palmas and did not want to give a statement.

The judge released him on charges.

Thus, the magistrate acting on duty imposed a restraining order on his daughter while the investigation is underway.

The events, according to the complaint, were recorded on Saturday night at the home of Juan Francisco Vargas' girlfriend, where his daughter had come to spend a few days with him.

According to the testimony of the minor, her father would have gone too far with her and, after stopping him, she was able to call her mother to tell her what happened.

The police then launched an investigation and arrested the man on Monday.

The police sources consulted by EL MUNDO rule out establishing links between Yéremi's disappearance and the sexual abuse reported by her stepsister.

Juan Francisco and the 'Yéremi case'

In fact, Juan Francisco Vargas was one of the first people investigated by the Civil Guard after the disappearance, but he was ruled out because he had an alibi.

The facts remain unclear.

After years of investigations by the Civil Guard,

Antonio Ojeda Bordón

, known as

El Rubio, was indicted,

who last year finished serving a five-year sentence for sexual abuse of a nine-year-old boy.

Some of the few data available to researchers pointed to him.

Among them, the characteristics of the suspicious vehicle that was detected in the area on the day of the disappearance.

The judge in the case considered that the evidence against him was not strong enough to move forward and in 2017 he closed the case, a decision ratified by the Provincial Court of Las Palmas.

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