At the hearing held at the third specialized court of Bogotá on the afternoon of Tuesday, February 20, Prosecutor’s Office requested conviction Carolina Galván Cuesta is the mother of the girl named Sara Sofia Galván.
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On January 16, the defendant’s defense completed the presentation of evidence aimed at weakening the Prosecutor’s hypothesis and achieving acquittal.
The prosecution considered that there was sufficient evidence to secure a conviction against Galván Cuesta in the disappearance of the two-year-old girl. His trace disappeared on January 15, 2021.
On May 18, 2021, the Prosecutor’s Office indicted Galván and the girl’s stepfather, Nilson Díaz, indicted them months later and has since presented evidence before a judge in Bogota, seeking the maximum sentence against them.
This newspaper learned that the prosecutor’s office intervened During the trial, he stated that the minor’s mother had custody of his care because she was his parent.
Therefore, the representative of the accusing institution stated that it was Galván who took the girl out of the protective environment guaranteed by her aunt, and that it was her parents who took her out of her home, hiding information and giving false information about her whereabouts. Reason for requesting punishment for parents.
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In the midst of an eventful process, due to the invalidity of the cases and the postponement of the trials, the prosecutors of the case presented the statements of forensic experts, police officers, reports from security cameras and other witnesses. to prove the hypothesis that the couple was responsible for the girl’s disappearance.It’s a fact that sparked national denial and led to a lengthy search of the Tunjuelito River.
Likewise, in the accusation document of the Prosecutor’s Office, which was obtained by this newspaper, it was stated that after the investigation, the following hypothesis was discussed:The girl died and the lifeless body was wrapped in a blue blanket, then placed in a white fiber sack tied with a brown shoelace and placed on the banks of the Tunjuelito river canal. by Nilson, Carolina’s emotional partner”.
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Prosecution sources stated that no preliminary agreement with the defendants was considered in the case, which is being handled by prosecutors from the National Gender-Based Violence Working Group on Attention to Crimes Affecting Women, Men, Girls and Adolescents.
Carolina Galván has been detained in El Buen Pastor prison in Bogota since August 13, 2021, accused of enforced disappearance. Nilson Diaz has been detained in Ibagué as a defendant since May 13, 2023. The crime is also enforced disappearance.
During the final trial sessions, Galván Cuesta’s defense presented letters containing evidence trying to prove that the woman had nothing to do with her daughter’s disappearance.
It should be noted that the woman’s behavior had been criticized in previous hearings, as the prosecutor in the case was seen in the judicial proceedings videos grimacing, yawning, yawning and playing with her hair as she announced her investigation into the woman’s disappearance. Small. old.
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According to the file at the prosecutor’s office, Sara Sofia’s aunt, who has been under her care since the end of 2020, reported that Carolina Galván disappeared after taking her with her for a weekend, but she never returned with him and did not answer. calls again.
Following the intervention of the prosecutor’s office, the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and the defendant’s defense will step in. And then the office will need to announce the meaning of the decision. that is, whether he condemned or acquitted the accused.
The prosecution requests the maximum sentence for the crime (320 to 540 months) for both defendants.
On the other hand, the Public Ministry, Carolina due to cognitive deficit he would not really know what he was doing and could be considered a blameless person.
However, for the Prosecutor’s Office, this claim will not be valid as it will reveal and support that there was concealment and deprivation of liberty regarding the events that took place after the girl’s death.
The judge called the parties to a meeting at 4 o’clock in the afternoon of February 27, and will explain the meaning of the decision that day.
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