The 11-year-old boy raped by four men who infected him with HIV dies

The 11-year-old boy who was sexually abused by four men who infected him with

died this Saturday in a hospital in the Bolivian city of

, where he had been admitted to intensive care a week ago.

The director of the Departmental Health Service (Headquarters) of Santa Cruz,

, confirmed to local media the death of the minor, who had entered a coma the day before.

"The condition and the health situation was very critical," lamented Viruez, who expressed his condolences to the minor's family.

The commander of the Special Force to Fight Violence (FELCV) of Santa Cruz,

, pointed out that the minor entered a coma and suffered two cardiac arrests, "the doctors managed to revive him in the first, and in the second they did not resisted."

Porto said that this case has the "aggravating circumstance of rape and now death" of the minor and that the authorities "already have the evidence" to "incorporate greater aggravating factors" for the sanction of this type of crime.

Bolivian President

stated that this case "cannot go unpunished" while expressing his condolences.

"We express our deepest pain at the departure of the little boy in

. This tragic outcome cannot go unpunished, it is inconceivable to accept so much evil against an innocent child. To his family, all the support and our deepest condolences," Arce wrote. on their social networks.

The case became known last weekend after the minor's mother asked for justice for her son, after suffering the constant violations of

and who had threatened him.

Last year the minor was diagnosed with the disease and in this situation he himself recounted the harassment he suffered from the four men whom he identified.

Two of the alleged aggressors are minors, 15 and 17 years old, and the other two are 23 and 28 years old.

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Last Wednesday, residents of the town of Yapacaní, where the boy was from, came excited to the court where one of the alleged 23-year-old abusers was, they overtook the police, took the man out and beat him.

The accused was rescued by the Police and sent to the

, the most conflictive in the country, with a preventive detention of 180 days while the investigations are carried out.

The other arrested, who is a minor, was referred to a juvenile court and will be detained at the

, according to information from the Ministry of Justice.

While the third accused, also a minor, is a fugitive and

, for which the authorities will take the necessary steps to activate the migratory alerts.

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