Relatives of the minor became aware of the events after the 9-year-old boy declared that he felt a “strong pain” in his body.
To a child of just 9 years His intimate parts were tied with human hair so that he “would not urinate” and he was also whipped with nettle branches, according to his relatives in Bogotá, a case that has the country shocked.
The abuse allegedly occurred in the Monserrate Home, run by nuns and located in the municipality of Chocontá, in the department of Cundinamarca, near Bogotá, Paola Morales told FM radio, aunt of the minor who reported the case before the Prosecutor’s Office.
The minor had been admitted to a nuns’ boarding school in Chocontá for 7 months and on December 15 we picked him up because they gave him a holiday to be with the family at Christmas, the child began to cry and feel strong pain, the child was checked by the mother and it was evident that his penis was swollen and purple.
Morales, the minor’s aunt, assured.
He explained that when the minor was taken to the doctor and the strings and human hair were removed with which his penis was tied, he was wearing at least “Ten days without being able to urinate.”
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This was “because they had tied his penis so that he would not urinate, which also gave him caused a bladder infection”.
The procedure was very painful because hair cut skin and had deep wounds who were infected and is now receiving psychological support.
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More physical abuse is evident, such as baths where they hit him with nettles that stung him and burned his skin and other things such as stopping him very early without clothes to keep cold for more than two hours at dawn, is what the child could us communicate.
The aunt, Paola Morales, declared.
He further stated that the boy’s mother took him to that boarding school because he had good references and that there they could help him overcome behavior and language problems, as well as he could progress academically.
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“Doctors found that my son’s penis was tied with long hair from a person. Had tied his member from the base and that prevented him from urinating, “the child’s mother told the newspaper Time.
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At the time of enrollment, the nuns told him they could only visit him every six months and that once a week they could communicate by phone with the child.
The minor has also said that a teacher would slap them and pat them on the head, and that he and other children He punished them by hitting them with nettle branches.
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This Tuesday even more testimonies arrived from people who knew the work of the Hogar Monserrate foundation that claimed to help ‘needy children’.
A 25-year-old woman who he studied his childhood in the place, He told the media that during and after his studies he witnessed how children were put to “Burn the garbage, lower the cows and things they shouldn’t do.” In addition, various fraudulent acts, such as Put on sale the donations that people made to the foundation at that time.
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I know this because my parents’ bosses were one of those who made these novenas and we once went to the store and saw the things that these men gave to the children for sale.
The young woman declared to El Tiempo.
Given the complaints about this case, the Governor of Cundinamarca, Nicolás García, ordered an inspection visit to the boarding school by officials of the Secretariats of Social Development and Health, in order to verify the conditions in which the minors are.
Meanwhile, the Prosecutor’s Office also initiated an investigation with experts in childhood themes.
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“This cannot stay that way. They should investigate what more harassment the children who are there have suffered“Said the boy’s mother. (I)
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