On April 19, a case was released that surprised the community of the municipality of Soacha, south of Bogotá. Authorities reported that a woman living on the street and was pregnant had been killed to steal her newborn child.
T he victim, Sandra Johanna Álvarez, a native of Boyacá, had been deceived for several months by Yadira Alexandra Yepes Sotelo, who had lost a child at three months of gestation and created a plan to hide his loss that included a criminal strategy in order to get a newborn and pass him off as his own.
Yepes Sotelo would have won Alvarez's trust by assuring him that he would help him in his process, with support and money. In week 37, knowing that she was a woman with addictions to psychoactive substances, she induced her to use drugs in order to leave her defenseless and, accompanied by an accomplice, who would have paid $15 million (about 4 thousand dollars) to murder her and rip her son out of her twenties.
After having taken the baby from Johanna Álvarez, Yepes was taken to the Yanguas hospital, in the Cundinamarque municipality of Soacha, adjacent to the Colombian capital, in order to carry out a check-up of the newborn, which, the woman said, she had had had a few hours earlier, without further explanation.
“We called her family and they informed us that she was pregnant but that, from one moment to another, she had appeared with a newborn saying that the birth had happened out of nowhere. They said that's why they had taken her to the hospital because her health could be in danger. Then she ended up confessing that she had been pregnant but that after three months she had suffered a miscarriage and that is why she had begun to plan a plan to get another baby,” said Colonel Livio Germán Castillo, commander of the Soacha Police.
Both the medical community and her own family members noticed that Yadira Alexandra Yepes did not show the physical signs that would be expected of a woman who had just gone through childbirth, so, finally, the hospital staff decided to contact the authorities.
In parallel, the victim had been found by inhabitants of a rural area known as the village of Chacua with a cut in his abdomen where part of the placenta and the umbilical cord could be seen, at 1:00 in the afternoon on Saturday, April 9. Around 2:45pm, the Metropolitan Police were patrolling in the San Nicolás neighborhood, when they were informed that the community had found (in a mountainous area) the lifeless body of a woman, who was lying naked and with a vertical abdominal opening.
Now, just one day after the case was heard, it came to light that this would not be the first crime executed by Yadira Alexandra Yepes Sotelo. According to her judicial record, she had been prosecuted for the crimes of homicide and trafficking, manufacture or carrying of narcotics and, added to her criminal repertoire, at the time she committed the crime against women, she was under house arrest for the crime of homicide.
“The capture of this woman, Yadira, 23, who is charged with the crimes of aggravated homicide, torture, child trafficking, this woman had a history of theft and also house detention for the crime of homicide.” Colonel Castillo explained.
For now, the intellectual author is in the process of prosecution and the accomplices, who would be three more subjects, have already been identified and are being sought by the authorities. For his part, the minor is recovering from the extreme and violent conditions in which he was born in hospital and is currently in the process of restoring rights by the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (Icbf).
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