The Bolivian police changed the governor and the security leaders of the San Pedro prison, in La Paz, and isolated three inmates, after a 25 -year -old woman denounced that she suffered a group rape in that prison.
It was the Departmental Director of the Special Force to Fight the Crime (FELCC) of La Paz, Gabriel Neme, who reported that the victim was abused by several inmates during a party that took place inside the La Paz prison, in which There was supposedly intake of alcoholic beverages.
“In recent days we took knowledge of a complaint (of a fact) that raised inside the penitentiary enclosure of San Pedro, of La Paz, where a 25 -year -old woman, who entered to visit a deprived of liberty, suffered the aggression Sexual, ”Neme explained.
According to police investigation, the victim visited her husband in San Pedro and she was in the company of two inmates, who had doping the woman to commit the group violation, according to the national director of Penitentiary Regime, Juan Carlos Clean.
Clean indicated that, in the first instance, the victim did not want to denounce the sexual assault, but an investigation was initiated because she was admitted to a La Paz hospital after the fact.
According to the director of Penitentiary Regime, the three inmates who perpetrated the abuse were already identified and were temporarily isolated in San Pedro, since in the next few hours they will be transferred to the maximum security prison of Chonchocoro, also located in La Paz.
Investigated police
The alleged group violation became investigated by the Special Force for the Fight against Violence (FELCV), but internally the Bolivian Police initiated a disciplinary process against those in charge of the security of the San Pedro prison.
The National Director of Penitentiary Security, Rodolfo Machicado, indicated that the reverse of the Governor and the Heads of Security of San Pedro was ordered, because they are responsible for the control of the Paz prison and, despite this, they allowed a party to be held in the that there were alcoholic beverages.
Machicado said that these police officers are already undergoing disciplinary processes and that it is not ruled out to expand investigation against other prison custodians.
