They report that pediatrician had abused a 12-year-old girl in Bogotá

Allegations of sexual abuse and violence in Colombia have become a major problem. On a weekly basis, different stories of minors who are the targets of this type of crime are being made public and the most worrying thing is that it is taking place in environments where minimum standards should be guaranteed so that this does not happen. Now after multiple complaints that leave both private and public educational institutions in the eye of opinion, Semana Magazine released the case of a girl under 12 years of age who was sexually assaulted by her pediatrician.

According to the girl's mother, Jaqueline Agudelo Rincón, the alleged abuser would be the 36-year-old pediatrician Francisco Álvarez Sánchez, who manipulated and accessed her daughter on several occasions between November 2021 and February 2022 while he was attending her through the EPS Medimás.

The victimizing events would have developed after the first medical appointment that took place in late 2021, according to Agudelo, the doctor continued to contact the minor through messages and everything transpired when the subject managed to make an appointment to supposedly eat ice cream.

“I didn't know anything, the girl didn't say anything. He didn't tell us anything. He picks her up in a car, takes her away and tells her she had to go to his apartment. We believe that she has an accomplice, because he took her to an apartment here, opposite where we live,” said the woman, noting that at that time there was the first abuse under the influence of psychoactive substances.

But things did not stop there, because the subject kept looking for her through whatsapp messages, where all the practices she had perpetrated on the minor's body were evident, whom she led to believe that it was all about a romantic relationship, so it took a few months until the whole truth broke out.

One day the youngest girl's mother came home and noticed that the girl under 12 had a strange attitude, so she asked for her cell phone, but since the girl is diagnosed with a depressive condition, she couldn't cope with the pressure and locked herself in the bathroom where she tried to attack her own life.

When the case was referred to the authorities, the diagnosis was attempted suicide and sexual violence. A while passed and the sexual predator reappeared on February 1, 2022, that day the youngest disappeared and her sister started looking for her and she remembered the pediatrician doctor, called her and demanded that she take her sister back home.

Álvarez Sánchez, arrived at the scene with the minor and there the police were waiting for him. At that time they asked the girl what was she doing with the pediatrician? and for the first time she confessed that the subject had abused her.

“He was guarded by the police. They arrest him and handcuff him. They take him to the URI of La Granja. The girl was taken to the Hospital in Engativa to recover evidence with her father,” said the youngest's mother.

However, all medical tests and message records have not been sufficient for the pediatrician to pay for what he did with the child under 12, because after the capture process, on February 2, 2022, the 63rd Municipal Criminal Court of Guarantee Control determined that the capture was illegal and ordered the defendant's immediate release .

For now, the alleged rapist is free and is summoned to a hearing on April 4 of this year, in which he will appeal the charges against him.

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