The Bocas del Toro Regional Prosecutor’s Office carried out new procedures on Isla Peterson, in the district of Kusapín, managing to obtain interviews from the victims and other residents of the place after the events that occurred on April 12, where the alleged members of a religious sect committed attacks to the detriment of minors and adults.
Prosecutor Juvencio Caballero Solé, coordinator of the Homicide and Femicide Section in the company of experts and a multidisciplinary team was in the place of the Ngäbe Buglé Comarca, managing to carry out proceedings that allowed us to gather much more information in this investigation and thus support the investigation. The prosecution’s theory of the case.
Likewise, a follow-up was offered to the 12 victims (10 minors and two women), in order to confirm their physical and psychological state of health.
The important thing, according to the Prosecutor in charge of this investigation, is to be able to gather the evidence that is necessary, in order to support the crimes that have been charged and the criminal responsibility of the people investigated so far.
For this reason, the Regional Prosecutor’s Office charged five people on April 15, 2023 for their alleged connection with crimes against life and personal integrity in the modalities of attempted femicide and deprivation of liberty; in addition, against the legal and family order in the modality of child abuse, which are maintained with a measure of provisional detention for the end of the investigation.
The foregoing is related to events that occurred on April 12, in the Ngäbe Buglé Comarca, on Peterson Island, Kusapín, when in the middle of a ritual, members of an alleged sect beat and burned some 12 people, including children and adults.
