The Chamber of Justice and Peace of the Supreme Court of Barranquilla decided on Tuesday, August 8, to indict former paramilitary chief Hernán Giraldo Serna, former commander of the Tayrona resistance front of Magdalena and known by the alias El Patrón de la Sierra or El Taladro, for crimes related to sexual violence against minors.
The decision, as this medium learned, was based on an investigation into acts committed between 2007 and 2008, following the demobilization of the former commander of the self-defense forces in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and prior to his extradition to the United States. Joined.
These cases are said to have been committed in La Ceja and Itagüí prisons, in Antioquia, and Modelo prison, in Barranquilla.
“The prosecution has shown that the postulate violated the commitments of the justice and peace process, in terms of non-recurrence guarantees and the eligibility requirements enshrined in Law 975 of 2005. The prosecution showed that alias El Patron committed crimes of Gender Based Violence Against Four Minors Three of these victims were alleged to have been re-victimized by the postulate It was specified that several minors were allegedly transferred to the prisons of Barranquilla and Antioquia where Giraldo Serna was held These events allegedly occurred between 2007 and 2008. In this regard, investigations are being conducted in the specialized directorate against human rights violations,” the investigative body said in a statement.
But precisely during the fervor being carried out confidentially in Barranquilla, some of the testimonies of the victims sexually assaulted by the former paramilitary chief were rebroadcast.
EL HERALDO had access to this data, particularly that of a girl under the age of 14, and the serious and disproportionate impact caused by re-victimization of sexual crimes is evident.
Source: El heraldo
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