Vice President Francia Márquez requested this Saturday that the Prosecutor’s Office investigate a possible case of sexual violence and racism against an Afro-descendant family in the municipality of Paya in the department of Boyacá.
“Racism kills, damages families and societies. Absolute rejection of all kinds of racist violence, It is our commitment to fight against this scourge, which exists strongly in our country and does not allow us to live in peace and dignity. I ask the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate this case,” Márquez said on his Twitter account, referencing the story.
The events occurred in the township of Morcote, where a family made up of a mother and her two children, ages five and nine, would have been victims of racism and later, minors, of all types of violence and sexual abuse at the El Rosario Educational Institution in the municipality of La Paya.
The mother, Kerlin Murillo Mena, who worked at this school as an English teacher, told Semana Magazine that, “They attacked us for belonging to the black and Afro-descendant population. Because of the pigmentation of our skin we were attacked in every way, to the point that my children were sexually abused.”
In her story, she tells how her two sons would have suffered all kinds of violence, including sexual violence. “They began by throwing urine in the mouth of Keiner, the preschooler. When they put their penis in his mouth, they carnally accessed him by putting their penis in his anus and beating him. In one of the attacks, when the boy did not want to leave, they tied his penis with a rope and threw it away. He still says his testicles hurt. They took it to the top of the slide to throw it into the void, causing a fracture in the skull that persists to this day. It has impaired my son’s cognitive process.”
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The publication indicated that it had contacted the rector of the school, Jorge Humberto Cuy Niño, “who denied Murillo’s accusations, while calling the accusations against him for directing attacks to harm minors “blasphemy,” the magazine said.
The investigation that the authorities carry out on this case of possible racism, abuse and sexual violence against an Afro-descendant family is then expected.
