The presenter of ‘La Red’ Carlos Vargas told the experience he had with Garavito, the serial killer and child abuser.
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In Colombia, the case of Luis Alfredo Garavito is very popular due to the number of minors who have lost their lives at his hands. With the passage of time, new victims of the murderer have been revealed. The television stars apparently were not spared from being intimidated by the man.
It is noteworthy that Luis Alfredo Garavito was a serial killer and child abuser. He is blamed for the deaths of at least 200 minors between 1992 and 1999.
The host of ‘La Red’ on the Caracol channel, in the program’s broadcast last weekend, recalled that, when he was a child, the best-known serial predator of minors in Colombia almost made him his victim.
It is about Carlos Vargaswho on air shared the story of his childhood in Cartago, Valle del Cauca, he told how he was about to become one of the victims from Garavito.
He said that at 10 years old The man approached him when he was leaving school and tried to persuade him to leave with him.. He used the modality with which he managed to kidnap most of his victims: he asked her to accompany him and that if she did, he would give her a supposed gift.
“He was taking me to a place leaving Cartago, but he told me that if I didn’t want to, I should leave. For a moment I thought it was all part of my imagination,” the presenter said in the program.
Fortunately, Vargas did not agree to leave with the man. As time went by, he realized the danger he faced, because from his innocence he did not know about Garavito’s crimes and bad intentions.
He said that he found out thanks to the program ‘Los informantes’, he managed to identify the subject who offered him the gift in order to take it away.
Furthermore, when he told his mother, in the midst of worry, he hit her and said, “How many times have I told him not to talk to strangers?”.
