The Colombian Prosecutor’s Office arrested this Friday Manuel Ranoquefather of two of the fourminors rescued in the Amazon jungle last June after spending 40 days missing after a plane crash, for alleged sexual harassment.

The body confirmed the arrest, although it did not give more details about what happened until Ranoque “be prosecuted“. On July 14, the four minors were discharged in the Central Military Hospital of Bogotá where they have been staying since June 9 and are “very well” after having arrived there with a pronounced state of malnutrition and dehydration and had various infections.

It is about the 13-year-old girl Lesly Mukutuy, who commissioned to care for 40 days of his brothers Soleiny Mukutuy, 9; She has Noriel Ronoque Mukutuy, 5 years old, and Cristin Neruman Ranoque, a baby who completed her first year of life in the Amazon jungle located between the departments of Caquetá and Guaviare. The minors were found in a remote point between Caquetá and Guaviare where they were searched tirelessly for weeks by some 200 soldiers, including commandos from the Army Special Forces, and indigenous people from the area, all of whom were part of “Operation Hope.”

custody of minors

At the moment, the four brothers are under state custody Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF), which will have to determine who is given custody, which could lie among others with the maternal grandparents or the father, who, according to various media reports, has been accused of sexist violence against the mother.

The minors were found within the framework of “Operation Hope” that mobilized more than 200 soldiers and indigenous people who searched for them for more than a month through the dense and virgin jungle located near the Chiribiquete National Park after the May 1 a Cessna 206 plane operated by Avianline Charter’s company will crash in this area and all three adults died on board, including the mother of the children.

The director of the ICBF, Astrid Eliana Cáceres, pointed out this Friday that “the children are still in the process of reinstatement of rightsyes”.

On June 10, Ranoque stated that he is threatened by the Carolina Ramírez Front of the FARC dissidents. “I am going to live full time in Bogotá because I have problems and difficultiesI’m with the Carolina Ramírez Front who is looking for me,” the man told reporters at the time. Ranoque, an indigenous Muinane from the community of Puerto Sábalo-Los Monos, in the southern department of Caquetá, assured that he was threatened for “economic interest” and that the dissidents began to pressure them threatening their children.