Manuel Ranoque, the father of Lesly, the eldest of four siblings lost in the Guaviare jungle for 40 days, was arrested during an operation in Bogotá.
The Mucutuy children became lost in the jungle after the plane they were traveling in with their mother crashed, killing everyone except them.
The difficult circumstances of the four children who disappeared in the Colombian jungle and how they managed to survive
During the rescue operations, Ranoque spoke to the Colombian media and participated in the search for the children.
However, Narciso Mucutuy and Fátima Valencia, the children’s grandparents, denounced that Ranoque had tried several times to sexually assault their eldest daughter. The man would also have abused the brothers’ mother.
#THE LAST | The Public Prosecution Service captured Manuel Ranoque, the father of the children who had been lost for 40 days in the Guaviare jungle. So far there is no certainty about the crime for which he was arrested.
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Ranoque was not allowed to approach the children for 15 days.
On Friday, the Attorney General’s Office confirmed the man’s arrest for sex crimes.
Source: Eluniverso
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