The death certificate indicates suffocation by immersion as the cause of death, but his parents received other information.
The parents of Rahul Morales – the 14-year-old teenager who was found dead in Santa Rosa – denounced irregularities in the case. They insist that two weeks after the event they have received no news about the authors of his disappearance and death.
In principle, they stated that the specialists of the Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigations Corps (Cicpc) informed them that the only sign of violence that the body presented was mechanical suffocation.
In addition, they clarified that despite having found him among the stones of a river, the boy did not drown. However, the death certificate from the civil registry indicates that his cause of death was “asphyxiation by immersion.”
His parents never saw the body found; and his burial was in a sealed coffin.
Disappearance
He appeared on July 1 at a Santa Rosa spa, four days after he was reported missing on June 27.
Rahul disappeared on his first day of homework after leaving his teacher’s house in Villa Guayana around noon. His parents told him to go to and from the site by bus, because the route was already known.
“In the afternoon I was in bed with my special 17-year-old son, but I began to worry because Rahul did not arrive,” explained his mother about the moment he knew that “something was not right”, after more than three hours ever since he was told that Rahul had finished his classes.
“They told me that surely he had been playing somewhere, but Rahul did not have that habit, he did not like the street and he always warned or asked for permission, in fact he took his father’s cell phone that day,” his mother reviewed.
Desperate calls were made to everyone they knew. The phone Rahul had been given was ringing off. Resources exhausted, they filed the complaint with the authorities and, at 10:00 pm that same day, the information was already circulating through all the security agencies.
“These were the most difficult days, the saddest,” they lamented.
Volunteers, relatives, including Rahul’s father, who uses crutches to get around, searched for the boy throughout the city.
Four days later (July 1) the search work ended because “they found a body with Rahul’s characteristics in a spa in Santa Rosa,” one of his aunts reported.
Civil Protection carried out the lifting of the body and handed it over to the Cicpc. One of Rahul’s mother’s brothers saw him, but assured that “that was not” his nephew, alleging that “Rahul was a boy 1.70 meters tall, he wore 45 shoes”, and that in his opinion, who they had the agents did not meet such characteristics because it had smaller dimensions.
For this reason, the specialists carried out the corresponding necropsy, and the identification process through dental tests; In addition, these procedures were analyzed by a specialist residing in the United States. In this way, they concluded that they could be 100% sure that it was Rahul.
“An innocent child”
“Rahul was an innocent child, what he liked was to play,” exclaimed his mother. The teenager was preparing to enroll in the next school term after having had two years without studying, because in 2020 the pandemic changed classes to remote attendance and he did not have the internet and other resources necessary to complete his tasks. Therefore, he chose to help his parents in the winery, from which his family is supported, which at that time was made up of three children, a father and a mother.
His parents did not want to force Rahul to study, because the boy “needed a more professional accompaniment” in his activities, since there were things that he did not understand and neither did his parents, so they hired a girl to help him, but he continued without understanding.
Before returning to face-to-face classes, he was encouraged to resume his studies, which is why he wanted to level up by attending directed tasks dictated by the daughter of a friend very close to his mother whom he and his brothers called “aunt”.
An enemy
The officials asked their relatives if they had any enemies, to which they said no. “At that time I was so stunned that I did not remember that last year we had a situation with the neighbor across the street,” added the mother.
He explained that a year ago, allegedly, one of his neighbors in his 40s “was blowing kisses at Rahul” and disrespecting him. His father spoke with the subject, asking him to respect, because they would report him if he did not stop.
Their parents were informed about the complaint process, but they explained that “if we did not have proof of the harassment, nothing could be done,” they said. Said neighbor stopped harassing the boy, however “he made mocking comments and laughs.”
The solution they found was to protect the child and not let him go out alone, until this year when he decided to continue his studies.
More than two weeks have passed and it is still not known what happened to Rahul.