Judge acquits the ‘monster of Monserrate’ for accusations of violent carnal access

The 30th District criminal judge acquitted Fredy Armando Valencia Vargas, known as the ‘monster of Monserrate,’ of the charges of violent carnal access, who was convicted in 2012 and 2014 for the murder of eight women. According to the judge, the probative material delivered by the Attorney General’s Office did not show that the individual sexually abused his victims before murdering them in the eastern hills of Bogotá.

In 2015, Valencia confessed that he murdered women because they refused to have sexual relations with him, after he gave them food, drugs and a roof. During that same year, authorities found the bodies of several women buried near the Monserrate hill.

Judge 30’s ruling generated distress on social networks, where the Prosecutor’s Office is urged to provide evidence that shows that the confessed murderer committed violent carnal access to his victims.

Who is the ‘monster of Monserrate

Fredy Valencia, also known as the ‘murderer of the hills’, according to investigations and testimonies, was a stealthy and violent man, who was heard shouting daily, who hid in the eastern hills of Bogotá to attack women who they passed by. The criminal built huts and huts of board and cans guarded by dogs. The last cabin he made was located 30 meters from Circunvalar Avenue with 21st Street.

In statements to the media five years ago, Valencia said he studied industrial engineering but dropped out affected by drug addiction after his mother passed away. One of the events that most caught the attention of the authorities and public opinion at the time was that there were constant visits by young women to the lair of the confessed murderer, where Valencia murdered them because they lacked their commitment to have intimate relationships with him .

The crimes in Valencia were unknown until a street dog scratched the earth near the house and a human leg appeared, with which the lurid story of the ‘monster of Monserrate’ began. When the Prosecutor’s Office began the investigation, it received testimonies from victims and relatives who claimed to have been attacked by Valencia. When the authorities arrived at the scene, the same murderer confessed where he had buried his victims.

After finding human bones and three more lifeless bodies, Fredy Valencia was sentenced to 36 years in prison by the Second Criminal Judge of the Bogotá Circuit. He was charged with murder, disappearance, violent carnal access, among others, in the hills of Bogotá between 2012 and 2014.

Current fault

Yesterday, Tuesday, October 13, at four in the afternoon, the hearing was held where the judge ruled that, although there are indications that the murderer sexually attacked his victims, there is not enough evidence to convict him of this crime.

However, the lawyer said that the victims allegedly could have been raped, according to the fetal position in which they found the bodies, some without clothes. In addition, forensic reports showed bites, defenseless positions, blunt blows, and tie marks on some of the bodies.

Despite this information, there are certain contradictions, according to the judge, because, at the time, it was said that Valencia killed them when they refused to have sex, so it is presumed that he could not have abused them. Likewise, the jurist alluded to certain inconsistencies that were committed in the due process and that would have violated the rights of Fredy Armando Valencia.

The aforementioned statements and probative material were analyzed and considered by the judge, who decided to acquit Fredy Valencia for the crime of violent carnal access.