The family is worried Dilan Santiago Castro is waiting for the results to be announced An investigation was launched into the incident after the autopsy was conducted after the body of the child, who had been missing for more than four days, was found in the middle of the potato crop in Curubital village in the rural part of Usme district.
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Dilan’s death left more questions than answers and a series of disconnected statements between the little boy’s mother. Derly Rivas and her father Marlon Castro attracted the attention of the authorities.
While Rivas assured that his son’s father may have been involved in the disappearance, he appeared before the prosecutor’s office and stated that when the autopsy results of the child are known, he will make them public to prove his innocence.
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“When the results of my son’s autopsy come out, I will bring the incident to light, so that, however my son’s death was revealed, The whole truth about what happened has been revealed“Marlon Castro told the cameras of the CityTv information system.
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However, it is still unclear when the events took place and it appears there are not many witnesses who can explain what happened on the afternoon of February 6, when Derly left the little boy alone while gathering firewood for cooking.
Derly and Dilan did not have many acquaintances in Bogotá because they came to live in the rural area of Usme only on January 3 this year. According to the version given by the little boy’s aunt, Leidy Johana Rivas, Derly must have come to the city escaping several incidents of domestic violence and looking for a job that would allow the boy to support himself. “The father did not want to answer and had to look for Dilan’s food; That’s why he went to Bogotá.”
According to the same statement, he would contact ‘Jaiver’ Derly, whom he knew from Tolima, Lebanon, to work as a cook on the farm he runs. Beyond this worker and his brother He was the one who found the little boy’s bodyThe young mother had no other acquaintances in the city.
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It was also found that: There was no one on the farm the day Dilan disappeared.because the two brothers working there were doing the work requested by the property owner in the capital.
Therefore, an investigator in this case pointed out: “There are very few people who were able to see the child before he disappeared (…) “It greatly narrows our scope of research.”
The woman said Derly Rivas was facing the possibility of being involved in the death of her own son. He told CityTv cameras that he had nothing to do with the matter and that the authorities Before finding the body, they told him that if the boy did not come forward, he could face up to 30 years in prison.
“They say I killed him. If I had killed him, I wouldn’t be here showing my face and I would have disappeared long ago.Derly noticed this.
However, there is another piece of information in the story that does not match each other. The little boy’s mother said that they had previously visited the area where the body was found and could not find any trace of the child.
However, at around 7.30 on Saturday morning, the body, which had been examined before, was found in the same place, according to the family. “They left him lying around,” the mother said.
The fact that one of the people who participated in the search for Dilan confirmed to this newspaper that that area had been visited before and that the body was not there makes the discovery even more strange.
“The place where they found him was not an area of tall trees or thick vegetation. It wouldn’t have been hard to see someone’s body (…) it was all very strange,” the man said.
Blanca Nubia, the grandmother of the minor, stated that when they found her grandson’s body, she received a phone call and they told her that it belonged to her. The situation was very strange because “It looked as if they had hidden the child somewhere and then dumped him on the road.”
Until the close of this issue, the Forensic Medicine opinion that would reveal the child’s cause of death was unknown. However The prosecutor’s office called all members of Dilan’s family to investigate Knowing Santiago’s versions; It was learned that the funeral delivery will take place at noon this Tuesday.
Dilan’s body will then be taken with his family to the village of Mesa de Polen in Ataco district of Tolima, where the funeral ceremony will be held.
BOGOTÁ FROM THE EDITOR
JONATHAN TORO
Source: Exame
