“I’m having trouble at school because I kissed another boy,” Sergio Urrego’s mother said.

After nearly seven years of trial, on April 30, judge 43 of the knowledge of Bogotá sentenced Amanda Azucena Castillo Cortés, former rector of the Castillo Campestre high school, where Sergio Urrego was studying, for the crimes of false reporting and concealment, alteration or destruction of material evidence. According to the accusations, the woman is one of the main reasons the young man decided to end his life in August 2014, after being persecuted and rejected because of his sexual orientation. Alba Lucía, Sergio’s mother, spoke to various media regarding the Colombian court ruling, however, among these interventions she made it one of the most personal and spoke about some aspects of her son who, for him on the day of his death, he was 16 years old.

In a dialogue with Noticias Caracol, Alba, in the midst of nostalgia, recalled specific moments with her son, Sergio. “He had jokes with me, he threw me on the bed, he tickled me when I was old. He gave me kisses, he was very close (…) They even told me that Sergio had the soul of an old man because he had a very good relationship with adults, more than with young people themselves. “The woman told the news where she added that Sergio was a bright young man, a lover of reading and Mafalda. In addition to being an inveterate defender of human rights.

Sergio revealed his sexual orientation to his mother when he was 16. By then, Sergio’s problems had already started, precisely because of his preferences. Alba Lucía reported that although she showed her support from the start, she noticed fear in Sergio, according to her, the young man spoke nervously and his eyes were full of tears. “The only thing I could say, and maybe it was the most successful as a mother, is that I hugged him and told him that the etiquette they did were ever going to retire was that of being my son. I hugged him and told him that I was going to be there and that I was going to defend him until the end. “, he expressed to this media.

The harassment, rejection and persecution Sergio endured at his school reached limits that Alba said were unimaginable, even though she herself received a suspected homelessness complaint from convicted former rector Amanda Azucena. Castillo Cortés “It was when I saw my very desperate son, because of that a complaint against me had also been filed, because I I started to support my son and she wanted to wallpaper the city with my name and that of Sergio. He started to say that I had abandoned Sergio and he reported me for abandoning my house. “

At that time, Sergio had a relationship with a young man named Danilo Pinzón and the manipulation of the former rector was such as to prompt the parents of the young man to report Sergio for alleged sexual harassment. Alba commented, in her dialogue with the reporter, that the parents of the young man did not understand the sexuality of their son, Danilo, so they went to the institution for help: from the same entity that was persecuting and harassed Sergio.

“They did not understand sexual orientation of their son, they asked the school to help him understand (…) a psycho counselor to understand what was going on and what they did was grab it, draft the complaint against my son, saying that it was sexual harassment, that my son was the one persecuting Danilo at that time and that they had to lodge a complaint», He revealed.

August arrived, and that month came the tragic news of Sergio’s death. After leaving a few letters for his mother and friends, Sergio decided to end his life. In addition to meaningful messages, Sergio left evidence of everything that had happened around him, for example, he left WhatsApp conversations where it was evident that his relationship with Danilo was still consensual and that he did not was not engaging in sexual harassment, as he wished. show Castillo Cortés.

“All the evidence is left to me,” he points out the coexistence manual, “leaves an arrow where it says law 1620 of 2013”, by which, according to the rule, “the national system of school coexistence and training for the exercise of human rights, sexuality education and the prevention and mitigation of violence in schools is created ”.

While still waiting for a judge to determine how long Amanda Azucena Castillo should be deprived of her liberty, the attorney general’s office He demanded 11 years in prison and the payment of a fine of 502 minimum monthly wages in force (approximately 500 million pesos).

Alba Lucía, has only words of gratitude for entities like these who were at the forefront of the situation, however, she assures that these seven years of struggle could be less, “I am very grateful right now for all the support I have felt, both from the attorney general’s office and the attorney general’s office. I have mixed feelings, because I feel that they failed Sergio again for allowing so many delays (delay in the process), because it is precisely for this reason that we cannot close the file like it should be ”.

The judge assured that for Monday, May 3, he would dictate the conviction of former rector Amanda Azucena Castillo.

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