Father and son convicted of violent carnal access to minors

The events for which the accused were sentenced to prison occurred in the La Sirena sector, on the western slope of commune 20, in Cali. According to the investigation carried out by the Attorney General's Office, men took advantage of the defenselessness and vulnerability of two girls, aged 13 and 14, daughters of neighboring families, sexually abused them and induced them to use drugs and narcotics.

According to the evidentiary material and testimonies presented during the hearings, the father and son owned motorcycles, with which they offered rides to the victims; in exchange for this, they were given to inhale glue such as Sacol, marijuana, bazooko and ecstasy.

Once the minors were allegedly intoxicated, the men beat the girls and burned them with cigarettes.

notes the communiqué issued by the Office of the Prosecutor.

On April 30, 2019, father and son were captured in the west of the capital of Valle del Cauca, after being denounced by the victims' mother and presented to a criminal judge, who endorsed the prosecution's indictment of charges and issued an assurance measure against them in a prison establishment. The 21st Criminal Court of Knowledge of Cali sentenced the two men to 21 years in prison, to whom, “the Prosecutor's Office charged them with the crimes of violent carnal access in homogeneous competition, in heterogeneous material competition, with violent sexual acts and supply to minors in homogeneous and successive competition”.

The bulletin submitted by the judiciary states that once the indictment was filed by the Public Prosecutor's Office, Criminal Court 21 handed down convictions against father and son, without the right to any benefit. He adds that the defense of the convicted appealed the decision.

One of the minors had to be placed in an institute for the treatment of addicts, while her sister remains in the position of a street dweller, says the Public Prosecutor's Office.

Sexual crimes in Colombia increased during 2021, according to figures provided by Medicina Legal show that 17,919 legal medical examinations were carried out in Colombia for alleged sexual offences until October last year, 1,352 more than in 2020. Of which 15,644 went to women and 2,275 to men.

The cities with the most complaints were Bogotá with 3,342 cases, Medellín second with 648, Cali registered 613 and Barranquilla 440. In fact, there was an increase in cases of 6.10%, in the sum of all the cities mentioned above compared to 2020.

In the country, the main sexual aggressors, according to the figures and reports, are relatives of the victims, having stepparents, parents and uncles as the most prominent. Girls from 10 to 14 years old, and boys from 5 to 13 years old, are the most likely to be victims of these crimes, said Medicina Legal.

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