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He murdered at least 142 children, although it is said that the figure could reach 194. He was born in Genoa, Quindío, in 1957, and during the 90s he became the terror of 11 departments of the country. Your name, Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos, is in the memory of Colombians as the greatest rapist and murderer of minors in the country.
After being captured, on April 22, 1999, the second criminal court of Florencia, Caquetá, sentenced him to 32 years in prison, which he is serving in the maximum security prison of La Tramacúa, located in Valledupar. But, although much has been said about the confinement of this confessed rapist and murderer, who He did not leave his cell not even to sunbathe, the truth is that he no longer remains there.
EL TIEMPO confirmed that Garavito is being held in the La Tramacúa health area, due to the treatment he takes to face the leukemia he suffers.
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On March 10 of this year, the criminal had to be transferred to a medical center, when he presented fatigue and weakness. Although at first it was believed to be anemia, after the tests you were diagnosed with leukemia. It is a type of blood cancer that begins in the bone marrow, the soft tissue in the center of the bones.
Currently, he is stable, isolated due to his condition and under medical supervision.
Then, on April 3, Garavito returned to the maximum security facility, but in May, after a relapse, he had to be transferred to the Rosario Pumarejo de López hospital in Valledupar.
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Sources of this newspaper assured that, at present, the man is stable, isolated due to his condition and under medical supervision.
Although in mid-2020 there was talk of the possibility of Garavito requesting the review of his sentence, so far there is no process or legal concept that determines his departure, nor have any requests of this type been made by his lawyers.
Garavito was captured in 1999.
This was the cell of ‘The Beast’
Before Garavito’s illness was detected, He spent his days in a dreaded pavilion, where Colombia’s most disowned murderers and rapists coexist.
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As EL TIEMPO revealed in 2018, the pavilion, located at the back of the jail, only has two corridors with 20 cells. The last one was the one Garavito occupied, and it was separated from the rest by bars: a kind of double cell.
Back then, ‘The Beast’, as it is known, He did not even go out to sunbathe, for fear of putting his integrity at risk. He remained there weaving handcuffs, earrings and necklaces, activities that serve to redeem part of his sentence.
In fact, as a precaution, Garavito did not usually go out to seek medical attention when he needed it, but rather the doctor went to his cell to examine him. In exceptional cases, they locked up all the prisoners before leading this man through the corridors to the health post of the maximum security prison in Valledupar.
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