The subject was sentenced in the last hours in Quibdó, the day of the attack he stated: «I did not do it by will, it was for my daughter. They didn’t want to give it to me.”
News Quibdo.
During the past month of August, the tranquility of Quibdó, in the department of Chocó, was affected by a painful violent event that had Lewis, a 15-year-old boy, as its victim.
The case, as confirmed by authorities at the time, was recorded during the afternoon of last Tuesday, August 2.
That tragic day, an indigenous citizen ended up attacking the minor with a knife when he left his school.
After the attack, the subject was caught by the community and was lynched, to the point where several police patrols in Quibdó had to intervene.
Colonel Clauder Antonio Cardona Cataño, commander of the Chocó Police, referred to the case in this way.
UNFORTUNATE DEATH OF A MINOR IN QUIBDO.
Unfortunately, today, August 2, the adolescent Lewis Eccehomo Mosquera Salazar, a ninth-grade student at Colegio Carrasquilla Industrial, lost his life. @PoliceChoco @FiscaliaCol pic.twitter.com/p5bHwRpGTF— NOTIACANDI (@notiacandi) August 2, 2022
They specified that one of the elements that generated the most consternation was when the attacker referred to the subject.
I regret that violent acts such as these occur in Quibdó, where the victim was the minor, Lewis Eccehomo Mosquera Salazar, a 9th grader at IE Carrasquilla, who died after being stabbed in the heart by a member of the Indigenous community. Sad, go with his family. pic.twitter.com/htlNCYYHE9
– Mario Luis Benitez Arboleda (@mariobeniteza) August 4, 2022
She stated that she had entered a level of anger after having held a meeting with officials from the Family Welfare Institute who refused to hand over her daughter; «I did not do it by will, it was for my daughter. They didn’t want to give it to me.”
Sentence of “45 years and 10 months”
In the last few hours, loved ones of Lewis confirmed the sentence that was imposed on his aggressor.
- “Today (Tuesday, October 25) earthly justice imposed the maximum sentence without appeal by the parties, who took the life of our beloved Lewis S..»
The man would have obtained “an exemplary sanction and without any kind of benefit or criminal subrogation.”
Do you remember this horrible event that occurred in Quibdó almost 3 months ago?
Well, justice has sentenced in the first instance to 45 years and 10 months in prison the murderer of the minor and Carrasquilla student, Lewis Eccehomo Mosquera Salazar. https://t.co/jL9Pv53Zi2– Francisco Palacios (@Fr_Palacios) October 26, 2022
They added that he kept “reverberating over and over again in my mind the only words of the murderer: I did not do it by will… I did it for my daughter. They didn’t want to give it to me.”
- “You put us as a family a very big test and we know that neither our tears nor that sentence can change reality.”
- “I keep asking myself… Why like this? where was the mistake?
- “Today I can only conclude that regardless of the pain we suffer, for the first time, I saw in our executioner one more victim…. Without ignoring the great damage he did to us ».
“It was without will… But it destroyed us”
For the child’s relatives, this has been without a doubt the most painful episode of their lives, which is why they expressed that hopefully “institutions will take this disastrous experience as a lesson and rethink processes, train their care staff and contemplate from now on within its protocols the DIFFERENTIAL APPROACH from the ethnic and the cultural for resolution of situations».