The Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Sexual Violence, Trafficking in Persons and Juvenile Criminal Justice of Oruro, issued the arrest warrant and international red notice against Gabriel Alejandro Puente Gutiérrez, accused of the crime of Trafficking in Persons, fearing that he had left the country. He is of legal age and had a romantic relationship with the missing teenager Leticia Mikaela Medina Rivero, 16, who left her home to meet him,To at averaging 11:00 p.m. on March 18.
Since that date, the family has lost any contact with the girl. and has no information on his whereabouts. On Saturday, March 19, the police activated all the corresponding protocols for their search on a national scale.
On Thursday, March 24, agents from the specialized Intelligence and Human Trafficking units of the Special Force to Fight Crime (Felcc), at the head of the Public Ministry, raided the family home of Gabriel Puente where they seized several elements, as well as some cell phones of several members of her family, to carry out the triangulation of calls and the crossing of information that comes from text messages and social networks that allow finding the whereabouts of the disappeared adolescent.
In the act, the arrest for investigative purposes of four womenamong them, the mother and three sisters of the accused.
“We have carried out this raid to collect investigative elements that allow us to find the whereabouts of Leticia Medina, reported by her family as missing, but we had to summon the staff of the Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents, after noticing the presence of three minors. age at inside the house:To a young 17-year-old mother and her two children approximately two years old, the result of a sentimental relationship and concubinage with the accused,” reported the prosecutor assigned to the Katerine Rojas case.
He also explained: “This finding allows us to confirm that Gabriel Puente liked to have sentimental and sexual relationships with several adolescents. The prosecution has the data of another minor who could also become a victimsince she would be the mother of a child procreated with the accused and, all this happened with the consent of the mother and in view and with the patience of the sisters”.
“The Prosecutor’s Office, like the Bolivian Police, is exhausting all the protocols required for this type of case, the search continues and we ask all those who have any kind of information that allows us to find the whereabouts of both people, whether they approach this office or any police unit in the country”, said the authority.
Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents
Pastor Flores, head of the Directorate for Equal Opportunities (DIO) of the Autonomous Municipal Government of Oruro, reported that, through the Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents (DNA), there is contact with his peers at the national level with whom he is crossing necessary information that allows to find the whereabouts of the teenager.
On the other hand, he pointed out that, after the rescue of the young mother and her twins, all the required protocols were activated to provide the necessary protection, as well as the psychological support of minors found to be victims of the fact under investigation by the Public Ministry.
Taking into account that the young mother would have procreated when she was only a 14-year-old teenager, he becomes a victim of a violation of his rights; It will be the Prosecutor’s Office that, through the psychological reports submitted by this instance, will confirm the typology, if a new crime is found within the same case, Flores explained.
meanwhile heThe three minors will be sheltered in the municipal shelter where they will have all the services, in addition to the professional assistance necessary for these cases, he explained.
The Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Sexual Violence, Trafficking in Persons and Juvenile Criminal Justice of Oruro, issued the arrest warrant and international red notice against Gabriel Alejandro Puente Gutiérrez, accused of the crime of Trafficking in Persons, fearing that he had left the country. He is of legal age and had a romantic relationship with the missing teenager Leticia Mikaela Medina Rivero, 16, who left her home to meet him,To at averaging 11:00 p.m. on March 18.
Since that date, the family has lost any contact with the girl. and has no information on his whereabouts. On Saturday, March 19, the police activated all the corresponding protocols for their search on a national scale.
On Thursday, March 24, agents from the specialized Intelligence and Human Trafficking units of the Special Force to Fight Crime (Felcc), at the head of the Public Ministry, raided the family home of Gabriel Puente where they seized several elements, as well as some cell phones of several members of her family, to carry out the triangulation of calls and the crossing of information that comes from text messages and social networks that allow finding the whereabouts of the disappeared adolescent.
In the act, the arrest for investigative purposes of four womenamong them, the mother and three sisters of the accused.
“We have carried out this raid to collect investigative elements that allow us to find the whereabouts of Leticia Medina, reported by her family as missing, but we had to summon the staff of the Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents, after noticing the presence of three minors. age at inside the house:To a young 17-year-old mother and her two children approximately two years old, the result of a sentimental relationship and concubinage with the accused,” reported the prosecutor assigned to the Katerine Rojas case.
He also explained: “This finding allows us to confirm that Gabriel Puente liked to have sentimental and sexual relationships with several adolescents. The prosecution has the data of another minor who could also become a victimsince she would be the mother of a child procreated with the accused and, all this happened with the consent of the mother and in view and with the patience of the sisters”.
“The Prosecutor’s Office, like the Bolivian Police, is exhausting all the protocols required for this type of case, the search continues and we ask all those who have any kind of information that allows us to find the whereabouts of both people, whether they approach this office or any police unit in the country”, said the authority.
Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents
Pastor Flores, head of the Directorate for Equal Opportunities (DIO) of the Autonomous Municipal Government of Oruro, reported that, through the Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents (DNA), there is contact with his peers at the national level with whom he is crossing necessary information that allows to find the whereabouts of the teenager.
On the other hand, he pointed out that, after the rescue of the young mother and her twins, all the required protocols were activated to provide the necessary protection, as well as the psychological support of minors found to be victims of the fact under investigation by the Public Ministry.
Taking into account that the young mother would have procreated when she was only a 14-year-old teenager, he becomes a victim of a violation of his rights; It will be the Prosecutor’s Office that, through the psychological reports submitted by this instance, will confirm the typology, if a new crime is found within the same case, Flores explained.
meanwhile heThe three minors will be sheltered in the municipal shelter where they will have all the services, in addition to the professional assistance necessary for these cases, he explained.
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