The 11-year-old boy, who was abused by four men who infected him with HIVdied this Saturday in a hospital in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruzwhere he had entered a week ago intensive therapy.
The director of Departmental Health Service (Headquarters) of Santa Cruz, Edwin Viruezconfirmed to local media the death of the minor who, the day before, had entered a coma.
“The condition and health situation was very critical,” Viruez lamented and expressed his condolences to the minor’s family.
the commander of the Special Force to Fight Violence (FELCV) of Santa Cruz, Charles Porto, pointed out that the minor entered a coma and presented two cardiac arrests. “The doctors managed to revive him in the first, and in the second he did not resist,” he said.
Porto said that this case has the “aggravated rape and now death” of the minor and that the authorities “already have the evidence” to “incorporate greater aggravating circumstances” for the sanction of this type of crime.
fight once morest impunity
The president of Bolivia, louis arcestated that this case “cannot go unpunished” while expressing his condolences.
“We express our deepest sorrow for the departure of the little boy in Yapacaní. This tragic outcome cannot go unpunished, it is inconceivable to accept so much evil once morest an innocent child. To his family, all the support and our deepest condolences, “Arce wrote on her social networks.
The case came to light last weekend. following the minor’s mother asked for justice for her son, following suffering the constant violations of four men who were brothers and were his neighbors, 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 attackers are minors, 15 and 17 years oldand the other two from 23 and 28 years old. The latter passed away last year from HIV.
Last Wednesday, residents of the town of Yapacaní, where the child was from, came excited to the court where one of the alleged 23-year-old abusers was, they overtook the Police, They took the man out and beat him.
The accused was rescued by the Police and sent to the Palmasola prison in Santa Cruz, the most conflictive in the country, with a 180-day preventive detention while the investigations are carried out.
The other apprehended, who is a minor, was referred to a court for children and will be detained at the Cenvicruz Rehabilitation Centeraccording to information from the Ministry of Justice.
While the third defendant, also a minor, is fugitive and they believe that he may be in Chile, so the authorities will take the necessary steps to activate the migratory alerts. (EFE)
