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In one of the hearings of the case, the Public Ministry summoned other uniformed men as witnesses who were in Puerto Rico (Risaralda) for June 21 and 22, 2020, when the minor was abused.
One of them was Santiago Bedoya Valencia, who confessed to the control body that he lied to the Prosecutor’s Office on the orders of a superior. According to testimony, quoted by Blu Radio, the commanders in charge asked them to hide that that troop camped for several days in a school in the area.
Bedoya admitted this Wednesday that he did not tell “the whole truth” because the vice-first sergeant [Juan Carlos] Díaz from the Army ordered them to say that they were constantly moving around the school, but that they were never inside the institution.
In the story, which the FM picked up, the soldier indicated: “He told us to say that we moved every day and we did not move every day (…) We were installed in a school that was located on the outskirts of the Santa Cecilia district”. In addition, he specified that the troops “occupied that school although it was prohibited”.
For his part, the soldier Víctor Manuel González ratified that version, which was picked up by the stations:
“They trained us and told us exactly what to say. They told us: ‘If they ask you, you were just outside the school.’
A third soldier, Iván Andrés Herrera, added that he did not lie but confirmed that several superiors gave the order to change the information that he would deliver to the Prosecutor’s Office in the criminal process. In his testimony, he again mentioned Sergeant Díaz and added “Corporal Muñoz and Corporal Hernández”.
The uniformed man added to the Attorney General’s Office, according to the radio station: “They didn’t want anyone to find out that we were in a school.”
Apparently, that educational institution was the place where the military raped and kidnapped the minor for several hours.
Before delegate attorney Hernán Rincón, Herrera added: “When the facts of the indigenous woman happened, they ordered us to form and collect everything to leave. He [el sargento Diaz] he began to say that we should say that we were on a hill that we moved every day ”.
For his part, the soldier Juan Sebastián Imbachí reported that the superiors in command warned them that “There were certain things they couldn’t talk about” in his statement before the accusing body, indicated Radio Nacional.
That lie was told with the intention of alleging that they were not at the scene of the events on Sunday, June 21, at around 6:00 in the afternoon when the Emberá minor was abused.
“By saying they weren’t at school, they would not have had the time to get to the place where they found the indigenous minor“Caracol Radio explained.
The Attorney General’s Office is advancing the disciplinary trial for the rape of the indigenous minor against the soldiers Juan Camilo Morales Poveda, Yair Stiven González, José Luis Holguín Pérez, Juan David Guaidía Ruiz, Óscar Eduardo Gil Alzate, Deyson Andrés Isaza Zapata and Luis Fernando Mangaret Hernández.
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