In the drama where a mother throws her son into the Cauca River and then follows him in what seemed like two certain deaths, a man appeared who decided to save the boy and succeeded in those waters, under the darkness.
(Read in context: Drama of a woman who threw herself with her son into the Cauca River in Cali)
After 7:00 pm on Wednesday, March 3, Cloromiro Largacha was walking with a brother, after his shift at a wood company specializing in plywood.
They left the industrial sector of the La Dolores corregimiento, in the Palmira jurisdiction, separated from Cali by the Cauca River bridge, in the so-called Paso del Comercio.
Both were walking in a hurry in search of a transport, because Cloromiro had had a problem with his motorcycle.
Under the dim lights of the public lighting service they saw when a woman and a child entered from the other side of the Cauca river bridge. Suddenly, in an act that was amazing, she picked up the child and threw him into those waters.
Cloromiro Largacha, is the man who saved the five-year-old boy who was thrown from the Paso del Comercio bridge into the Cauca River. pic.twitter.com/SOczw1VAiF
– Radio Clock Cali (@radiorelojcali) March 3, 2022
It was an uncertain fall from that bridge inaugurated in 1978. Cloromiro, a stocky man, looked out and saw the boy struggling to survive.
He did not think for a second and threw himself into the flow of that river that runs 1,350 kilometers between seven departments of Colombia.
It was not an easy decision in that darkness and in a river that has been affected by pollution along its way.
Cloromiro advanced thanks to the fact that he is a good swimmer and he saw how the boy was swimming his arms. Then he got closer to her and managed to grab her.
He says that he felt how the seconds passed and passed until he reached the shore. Her brother and others approached them to help them out of the water and onto the road. The 5-year-old boy asked where his mother was.
She also swung her arms and was able to get out and stayed in that area where there are bushes. Minutes later the firefighters and the police appeared.
The minor was sheltered and loaded into a vehicle to be taken first to a health center. There he was notified to the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF).
The commander of the Metropolitan Police of Cali, Brigadier General Juan Carlos León, said that the community reported the case and agents from the Group for the Protection of Children and Adolescents arrived, who began the route of reestablishing children’s rights, with the ICBF.
The mother showed a state of alteration and the authorities were reviewing the prosecution process that would be for the crime of attempted homicide.
This story moved me. Not only because of Cloromiro’s heroism, but also trying to understand what can lead a mother to commit such a terrible act. She needs help and Cloromiro deserves our recognition. https://t.co/l3F2N33imZ
– Andrés Villamizar (@villamizar) March 3, 2022
His medical assessment will also be awaited to establish if he has alterations in his mental health. It is not clear why she made that determination to throw herself into the waters with the child.
Cloromiro Largacha says that it was seeing a son in danger when he threw himself into the uncertainty of falling into the Cauca River at night. In networks they asked for recognition for that act of heroism.
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