11-year-old girl nearly dies after dad uses her as drug mule (Cali, Colombia)

Note that UNNAMED DAD clearly had some sort of custody/visitation rights that allowed him to do this to his daughter.

http://colombiareports.co/11-year-old-cali-girl-hospitalized-used-drug-mule/

11-year-old Cali girl nearly dies after father uses her as drug mule

Nov 19, 2014 posted by Piotr Wojciak

An 11-year-old girl from the southwestern Colombian city of Cali nearly died after her father fed her 104 capsules filled with drugs before traveling abroad, local media reported Tuesday.

The girl was brought to the emergency room of a hospital in Cali by her mother and was in a critical state.

The minor showed symptoms of severe poisoning and, following an x-ray examination, the primary care physicians decided a surgical intervention was necessary.

In x-ray images the doctors recognized capsules with an unknown substance in the patient’s stomach. It is presumed that due to a rupture in one of the containers, the poisonous content began leaking into her organism.

“The life of the minor was in serious danger, and the surgery had to be performed immediately. A total of 104 capsules were removed from the victim’s stomach. The substance is being analyzed by the police and the prosecutor’s office. Everything suggests it is cocaine,” said General Hoover Pinilla of the local Police.

The mother of the girl was instantly detained and the police launched criminal investigation into what seems like a child abuse case.

According to the initial hypothesis by the authorities, it was the father of the minor who forced her to ingest the packages of drug with intention of sending her to Europe as the so-called drug mule.

“The mother of the victim told the police that her daughter had been with her father, who doesn’t live with the family, from around 12 PM to 6 PM on Monday. Later that evening, the girl started experiencing pain in her stomach and was subsequently taken to the hospital,” explained Pinilla.

“We’re looking at a perverse case of child abuse by adults,” added the police commander.

During an inspection at the house of the minor, the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare found passports and various plane tickets hinting at the possibility of a failed drug-trafficking attempt.

“This case is an abomination, as it jeopardized the life of an 11-year-old child. That is why we will take all necessary measures to provide protection to the minor and take her away from the harmful environment” said Jhon Arley Murillo of the Institute.

In the public statement. the social worker urged the society to monitor and denounce similar instances of violation of children’s rights.

After the medical intervention, the girl stayed in the hospital on Tuesday. Her condition is stable, but she remains at an intensive care unit with “guarded prognosis.”

Dad sentenced to 58 years for kidnapping, murdering infant son; wanted to avoid child support (Bogota, Colombia)

Dad ORLANDO PALAYO has been sentenced to 58 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of his infant son. Seems Daddy hired two henchmen to beat the mother and take the baby, who was later found dead and abandoned near a road. Seems Daddy wanted to avoid paying child support.

This case shows why we need to move away from child support to adequate societal support for parents raising children. Let's do more for education and training, subsidized housing, child care, equal pay for mothers, etc. And let's leave indifferent and violent fathers like Palayo out of the equation.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/9245-orlando-pelayo-.html

Bogota man sentenced to 58 years for kidnapping and murdering his son

Tuesday, 20 April 2010 09:13 Alex Hocking

The Supreme Sourt on Monday sentenced a Bogota man to 58 years and 9 months in prison for his role in the kidnap and subsequent murder of his infant son.

The court rejected an appeal from the defense stating that Orlando Pelayo's confession was extracted under torture. It was claimed that police had forced him to answer questions during a polygraph test for over ten hours without food or drink, but the court described the charges as an exaggeration and said that it was only the accused who described the torture and because his account of the torture varied from one time to another.

In March 2009 the defense requested a lower sentence because of claims that Pelayo was not the father of the child, because he was abused as a child and because of his psychological state.

Son Luis Santiago Lozano was kidnapped from his home in Chia, Cundinamarca, north of Bogota, September 24 2008 under orders from Pelayo and on the September 30 his lifeless body was found abandoned nearby on Cerro Lourdes, on the road leading to Tabio Chia. Two accomplices, Jorge Ovalle and Martha Munoz, beat the mother, Clara Ivonne Lozano, during the kidnapping. It is believed that Pelayo ordered the crime to avoid paying child support.

Pelayo was originally sentenced to 60 years imprisonment and a fine of $143,640, but this was altered because the maximum sentence for aggravated homicide allowed by the law is 50 years. The sentence for kidnapping brings his sentence to 58 years, 9 months.

The other two defendants in the case, Pelayo's accomplices Jorge Ovalle and Martha Muñoz, were sentenced to 26 years imprisonment and $24,158 without right to appeal in April 2009.