Candelaria (Colombia), Oct 19 (EFE).- More than 3,000 people, most dressed in white and demanding justice, gathered this Saturday in the Colombian town of Candelaria (southwest), to say goodbye to Sofía Delgado Zúñiga, 12 years old, murdered on September 29 by a man who admitted the femicide.
The inhabitants of the Villagorgona hamlet, near Candelaria, in the department of Valle del Cauca, began to experience the most painful hours since Friday night when the white coffin with Sofía’s body was taken to the La Aldea sports center for the funeral services. .
«Justice, justice for Sofia» was the clamor of the people who gathered to accompany Lady Zúñiga and Cristian Delgado, parents of the minor.
Brayan Campo, 32, who after being arrested as the main suspect, confessed to the authorities the place where he buried the girl’s body after murdering her at the veterinarian where he worked and where he sold food for different animals.
Sofía Delgado left her home, in Villagorgona, on September 29 to buy shampoo for her pet. The girl never returned home and from that day on an exhaustive search began in which authorities, family, friends and acquaintances, and even spontaneous people joined forces.
Feminicide with a history
The body of the minor was found on Thursday and the remains were transferred to the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences to learn more details about this atrocious crime that has shocked the country.
Campo, who already had another accusation of sexual rape of another minor, admitted on Friday before a judge that he murdered the girl the same day he kidnapped her, September 29, and that he then took the body wrapped in bags of food to pets to a cane field where he tried to incinerate him.
“The worst part of this tragedy was borne by the girl,” said one of the spontaneous people before Sofía’s body was taken to the Villagorgona cemetery, all in the middle of a crowd of people who were squeezing to say their last goodbye to the girl. girl who left her home and could not return.
“Let the full weight of the law fall on him because I could not continue going through what happened to my girl,” said Sofía’s mother in the midst of her pain.
The confessed murderer is in a police station where he receives protection from the authorities who fear that people will try to lynch him.
The day the authorities found the minor’s body, a group of people tried to burn Campo’s home.
While Sofía was buried, the authorities were searching for two other girls, ages 10 and 12, who have been missing for several days in Antioquia.
Regarding violence against children, the Colombian Attorney General’s Office has reported that between January and August of this year 375 children have been murdered in the South American country.
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