The woman who kidnapped a two-month-old twin in Potosí is sent to Cantumarca prison

The Eighth Precautionary Court of the Departmental Court of Justice of Potosí ordered preventive detention in jail from Cantumarca for the 40-year-old woman who kidnapped Luana, a two-month-old twin who disappeared in the Chuquimia market in the city of Potosí.

The departmental prosecutor of Potosí, Gonzalo Aparicio Mendoza, indicated that the accused Laura VB was charged with the alleged crime of human trafficking and at the hearing It was requested that he order his preventive detention in jail while investigations continue.

“The Public Ministry is attributing the commission of the crime of human trafficking in its aggravated form because the victim is a minor, in that sense, today it is being presented, by the Commission of assigned Prosecutors , the resolution of formal accusation and the request for application of the precautionary measure of detention preventive,” said Aparicio

He added that the person under investigation gave her informative statement and that all the documentation collected is being evaluated and analyzed by the Commission of Prosecutors so that the corresponding decisions can be made and the maximum sanction is sought, not only to the author, but to all those who had some degree of participation in the event.

The representative of the Prosecutor’s Office indicated that, according to the review of data in the Free Justice system of the Public Ministry, it was identified that the Detainee has a history of robbery in the city of Cochabamba, so contact was made with the prosecutor of the case to receive the corresponding reports.

According to the complaint, the kidnapper gained the trust of the twins’ parents on Sunday, when she found them on a street in the city of Potosí. The woman offered the couple work and gifts upon finding out that they had limited resources.

That same day, the woman took the parents and their two two-month-old daughters to Sucre with the promise of giving them gifts, but He didn’t give them to them and made them walk alone. Then they returned to the city of Potosí and the woman spent the night in the couple’s room.

This morning, the kidnapper told the couple to get ready with their babies to go out and buy the gifts she promised them. It was so Chuquimia came to the market, where the woman invited the parents breakfast.

However, minutes later he told his father that he forgot his keys at home and He asked him to go and pick them up. The father went to bring the supposed keys and the kidnapper remained holding Luana Dashia, while the mother had the other twin in her arms.

Then the kidnapper gave the mother Bs 20 to pay for breakfast and she told her that she was going to the bathroom, so she took Luana away. Minutes passed and the woman never returned.

According to the report of the Human Trafficking Division of the Special Force to Fight Crime (Felcc), the newborn was rescued on Monday night, during a mobile road control operation in the town of Porco, on the route to Uyuni.

Investigations indicate that the woman was traveling in a vehicle bound for the border with Chile to flee with the kidnapped baby.