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In the statement, the Prosecutor’s Office states that the 34-year-old man did not accept having killed the minor, despite the fact that he was the one who led the authorities to find the girl’s body, after assuring that he had committed the crime.
Inpec must now assign a place of detention to Cadavid, while the judicial process against him advances.
The Prosecutor’s Office also provided some details of how the minor was found, at dawn on Friday, in a wooded area of the eastern Antioquia municipality, noting that she had blows to the face and head.
Cadavid Álvarez was captured by the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office with the support of the Sijín and the National Army and did not acquiesce in the charges brought by a sectional prosecutor from Antioquia.
For his part, the Attorney General of the Nation, Francisco Barbosa Delgado highlighted the speed with which the case was resolved and called attention to citizens so that “together we can protect our girls, boys and adolescents.”
This Saturday, the funeral of the minor will be held in Rionegro, in a ceremony that is scheduled for 2:00 in the afternoon at the San Nicolás el Magno Cathedral.
The case
On Friday in an unpopulated area of the municipality of Rionegro, eastern Antioquia, the body of the baby was found with blows to her face and head, which Cadavid would have caused, who later informed the authorities of the baby’s location.
In the preliminary hearings, prior to the judge’s decision to send him to jail, Cadavid Álvarez did not accept the charges brought by a sectional prosecutor from Antioquia.
The man had picked up the girl this Thursday at his home, as he usually did, according to relatives of the minor, and had told the mother that he would take her back at 5:00 pm. When this did not happen, the family and the authorities of the municipality of Rionegro, where Sofía lived, began the search.
Cadavid was found with signs of disorientation and traces of blood, around 9:00 pm in La Mota. Initially, the man reported where Sofía’s body was found, in a wooded area of the El Porvenir neighborhood, although he did not provide details at that time, according to the mayor of Rionegro Rodrigo Alzate. Later, the Prosecutor’s Office specified that, after being captured, Cadavid confessed, during interrogation, to the murder.
Life imprisonment?
Amid the outrage, part of the public opinion demanded for the alleged murderer of Sofia, the application of the sentence of life imprisonment, which was approved on June 18 and promulgated on July 22. However, experts recall that the norm has yet to take another step in Congress and, although one does not depend on the other, there are also lawsuits pending before the Constitutional Court.
“Life imprisonment passed two important issues: the first, the legislative act that reformed Article 34 that prohibited life imprisonment in Colombia, and second, the presidential sanction of it. However, there is a lack of legislative regulation in Congress. Obviously, it will be applied to people who commit crimes against the sexual integrity or the life of minors, but the procedure, the fixation, is still not clear, ”explains criminal lawyer Iván Cancino, who clarified that the Court’s ruling regarding the lawsuits and the regulations that must be carried out in Congress are not linked, therefore it can follow its legislative course without waiting for the Court’s ruling.
Kenneth Burbano, director of the Free University Constitutional Observatory, also says that “the law itself established that the Government will have one year to file before Congress the bill that regulates life imprisonment and, in the same term, a comprehensive public policy that develops the protection of children and adolescents ”.
Another reading –exposes Burbano– “is that it has been proven that the majority of violent acts against children take place in their homes and life imprisonment will not solve these problems; what is required is greater protection from the authorities ”.
Finally, experts agree that there are “good arguments” in the lawsuits presented for this reform on life imprisonment to be declared unconstitutional.
In dialogue with EL COLOMBIANO, Yohana Jiménez, daughter of the late congresswoman Gilma Jiménez who fought for years to move this law forward, says that she is aware that the document that the Government is working on for regulation is almost ready “in the latest revisions.” . He also states that although “he knows that due to the dimension of the reform, the expectation and importance it has for the country, it is necessary to carry out this remaining process with a magnifying glass,” he once again asks the Government and Congress so that next year, starting the legislature , be the first project to be discussed ”.
Yohana insists that cases like the murder of Sofia are “painful urgent calls for the regulation and application of the life sentence.”
Finally, he asks the opponents of life imprisonment not to put “more obstacles. “No one can determine if a measure works or not, if it is not working, we apply all the measures we have in defense of our children and then we determine which ones do not work and we continue the path of fighting for their rights,” he declares.
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