The bench of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) arrived this afternoon at the offices of the Departmental Prosecutor’s Office to demand that a commission of prosecutors be created to investigate the officials that delayed the investigation for the rape of a child in Yapacaní, so that they are punished in accordance with the laws in force.
The departmental assembly member of the government party, Raquel Valencia, indicated that with this new process that must be opened the responsibility of public officials must be identified who committed negligent acts, which caused the victim not to receive adequate attention in a timely manner.
Among the irregular facts discovered in this case, Valencia said that the prosecutor assigned to the case rejected the first complaint on April 12 due to an erroneous report forensic IDIF that supposedly did not certify the violation that had been registered. He added that the process was opened on May 31 because the boy was dying in the hospital, where they could not save his life and this weekend he died.
For her part, MAS deputy Ninoska Morales said be “dismayed” like the entire Santa Cruz population and Bolivian for the consequence of the act of rape perpetrated by four subjects in Yapacaní, which was not investigated promptly, which caused a defendant to flee and the victim to lose his life.
Furthermore, he said that the officials of the Ombudsman for Children should be investigated for not following up the investigation and precisely the forensic doctor who did not carry out a truthful assessment of the child who was the victim of rape and who was infected with a deadly disease.
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While Noemí Ribera, councilor of the same party, commented that they left at the window of the Departmental Prosecutor’s Office a request to comply, as soon as possible, the commission of prosecutors to investigate all public officials who committed these irregular and negligent acts against the victim.
He asked for “be punished with the full weight of the law” to all those involved in the delay of the investigation of the case, to establish an exemplary sanction. Likewise, he said that rape victims must be provided with all protection measures and impartial justice guaranteed.
For his part, the state attorney general, Juan Lanchipa, said that the Public Ministry ordered the formation of a commission to make a exhaustive investigation to all the work carried out by the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the different stages of the investigation.
“We have ordered that a commission of the Departmental Prosecutor’s Office (of Santa Cruz) be constituted in the town of Yapacaní to review the notebook and all the evidence on the work of all the Public Ministry officials, without exception, to establish whether they complied with the law or there have been some negligent acts in the performance of their duties so that responsibilities can be established where appropriate whether disciplinary or criminal,” he added.