He killed his stepfather when he heard he was abusing his underage children

Man, 31, stabbed his stepfather to death upon learning that she was abusing her two minor children. The murderer entered the house of his 70-year-old relative and killed him with several strokes. The dramatic situation occurred in the municipality of Pudahuel, in Santiago de Chile.

The perpetrator had already been denounced by his own daughter when he learned of the abuse of his own children. According to the miners, their grandfather offered them “indecent touching”.

As Commissioner Julio Ceballos of the PDI Homicide Squad explained, the victim had been denounced by his daughter for alleged sexual abuse of two grandchildren, with whom he lived in the house.

“Rifleman personnel arrived at the house, entered it and realized that the person was in his bed with various sharp neck injuries,” he said.

As the commissioner specifies, The murderer took advantage of the 70-year-old man asleep and attacked him with a knife. He made five cuts that killed him instantly. After the crime, he called his partner to confess that he had killed his stepfather.

The body of the children’s grandfather was found early Monday morning in the house he shared with his daughter and grandchildren. He later concluded that the miners’ mother would have been aware of the abuse and filed a complaint with the local police.

Despite the death of the aggressor, legal proceedings will continue to determine the existence of the fact denounced by the woman. Identities were not provided.

In Chile, sexual assault against minors is a serious problem: 77% of complaints of sexual violence that are brought before the courts concern children or adolescents.

There, it is not only the quantity that matters, but who these victims are. Data from the Chilean Public Prosecutor’s Office indicate that, of the total victims of sexual crimes, 77% are boys, girls and adolescents, while 23% are adults. In addition, sexual violence has a girlish face: 84.7% of victims of child sexual abuse are girls and adolescents.

To these data are added other equally relevant and worrying: 62% of sexual abuse of children and adolescents occurs at home, according to a study revealed by the National Service for Minors (Sename)