The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office announced new information about how the child died Dilan Santiago CastroHe was reported missing on February 6 and found dead four days later.
(Also: Attention: Dilan Santiago’s father, Marlon Castro, has been released).
Leonor CoralThe director of prosecutors in Bogotá said: Forensic Medicine detected that 2-year-old baby’s death was violent and “will therefore be investigated as murder.”
Among the details that Merchán announced on Thursday, February 15, was the mechanism of death revealed by the expert report. The cause of death was determined to be encephalopathy. hypoxic
“All evidence is being collected that will allow us to bring those allegedly responsible for this murder before a warrant control judge,” he added.
The prosecutor’s office said that the place where the body was found was not the place where the minor died, following the work done by the police during the search for the missing person.
So, according to the Prosecutor’s Office investigators and Merchán, this was where a farm worker found the body. It would be a secondary scene.
“A re-examination of the scene was carried out to collect new evidentiary materials that would strengthen this hypothesis,” said the director of Bogota’s prosecutor’s office.
According to Merchán, the clothing in which the child’s body was found is remarkable, considering that this region is very cold and Dilan was wearing only a shirt and overalls.
For now, investigators in the case are awaiting the full opinion of the Coroner before investigations can proceed.
Dilan Santiago’s body was found in a potato crop known as ‘The Farm’. Monte Bello troutThe baby arrived here with his mother in mid-January 2024.
In his own account, Derly Rivas, the boy’s parent, said that around 2 o’clock in the afternoon of February 6, he left his son in the kitchen of the farm a few steps away to fetch firewood and suddenly lost track of him. your child is small.
Neighbors in the sector told EL TIEMPO that on the days when the disappearance occurred, only the mother and her son were on the farm because the workers were on rest days.
It was a neighbor of that farm who, after Derly’s tip, told an Army post in the village of Curubital in the Usme rural region south of Bogotá that there was a missing child.
(You may be interested in: ‘I want to find the person responsible’: Dilan Santiago’s mother wants justice for her death)
Since it was feared that it would fall into one of the trout breeding wells, a team of 150 people immediately came to the rescue.
Eventually the boy’s body was found by a farm laborer in his father’s field, a kilometer away from his home; According to the mother, the father had lost track of her.
Since Tuesday, the Forensic Medicine has reported that Dilan Santiago’s death was due to the following reasons: mechanical asphyxiation, This means that air entry into the lungs is prevented by some external factors. This stops oxygen reaching the tissues, creating a state of hypoxia (low oxygen in the tissues).
Nervous tissue, especially neurons, is very sensitive to this drop in oxygen; so much so that they can cease to exist within a few minutes when the absence of oxygen completely eliminates them. What is known as anoxia is structured here.
Since the brain consists mainly of neurons, the entire involvement of its constituent organs (cerebrum, cerebellum, brainstem) stops working and how they determine or command vital elements in the body such as breathing, heartbeat, and pulse. Consciousness, among many other things, can endanger the lives of those affected.
Resulting in encephalopathy (brain disease) hypoxic (lack of oxygen) is a consequence of external obstruction of the airways (mechanical asphyxia), sustained for a period during which neurons cease to exist.
(Interesting: These are the lines of the investigation into the death of Dilan Castro after the autopsy)
Again, Forensic Medicine’s full opinion It remains to be determined what the element or situation was that caused mechanical asphyxiation, as it is not yet known and is key to the investigation.
Although the Prosecutor’s Office is currently talking about those responsible for the death of the child, no names have been disclosed regarding his death and statements regarding what happened at the Usme farm continue to be collected.
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