Commotion for rape and crime of a 10-year-old girl in Colombia

"It is an insane fact of barbarity that we must reject not only the inhabitants of our municipality, but also all Colombians, because it can not continue," said the Mayor of El Retorno, Oscar Ospina.

Police arrested a man who was searched by security cameras when he took out the youngest from a warehouse.

When registering the house of the alleged aggressor, identified as being Juan Gabriel Díaz Sarmiento, 37 years old, the police arrested four other people.

"The police raided the place where the girl's shoes were found and found more people who apparently participated in this act," said Judith Izquierdo, the secretary of the municipal government. said that one of the detainees are minors.

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Residents of El Retorno attempted to lynch those responsible for the child's death. The police therefore had to intervene to prevent it, reported the EFE news agency.

The news comes amidst a debate in Colombia over the sentences faced by offenders and murderers of minors, inaugurated by President Iván Duque.

"The time has come for Colombia to badess the convenience and necessity of life imprisonment for rapists and child murderers, a severe sanction is needed," said the president in a statement. commemoration of the twenty-seventh anniversary of the office of the Attorney General. Nation

This Thursday, after knowing what had happened, Duque showed his solidarity with the relatives of the victim.

On May 23, the Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Medicine reported that during the first quarter of the year, 8,230 minors had been victims of badual violence in Colombia.

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