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With death threats, blows with a shotgun and lashes, a man kept his ex-partner and his son kidnapped on February 17 and 19, 2020 in a country house in the Malavar village of El Castillo, Goal.

The family reported the disappearance of the 19-year-old woman and her 3-year-old son, and named the 22-year-old man as a suspect.

With this information, police units went to the man’s country house, who reports that he has no idea of ​​the woman’s whereabouts, but that she had left the child in his care.

After asking permission to enter the house, Police officers find the child locked in a room and crying, pointing under the bed, where the woman was passed out and with bruises on her body.

The woman told them about the violent attacks of which she was a victim, along with her son, and told them where the weapon was and the elements with which she was beaten, which the agents found in the house.

With the evidence found and at the request of the Local Prosecutor’s Office of Acacías (Meta), a guarantee control judge from El Castillo decided to send the man to prison as allegedly responsible for physically and psychologically mistreating his former partner.

The alleged abuser was charged as allegedly responsible for the crimes of carrying weapons, simple kidnapping in heterogeneous and successive competition with aggravated domestic violence.

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In a symbolic act this Tuesday outside the Palace of Justice in Medellín, relatives and close friends of Miguel Ángel Castellanos Rojas they demanded justice for their case, after two years of being found floating in the river.

The 16-year-old lived in Comuna 13, was a ninth-grade student, a soccer player and belonged to the United Pentecostal Church of Colombia, relatives reported.

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“He left home today, exactly two years ago, and did not return, because some people wanted to take his life. He left and in Balcones de la Serranía, these people held him against his will, tortured him, kidnapped him for some hours and finally ended his life,” said Diani Rojas, the young man’s mother.

Human rights defenders and organizations such as Human Rights recalled the young man’s case on Tuesday and asked the authorities to speed up the judicial process, so that justice is done.

“They bury him, twelve days later they dig him up and he appears in the Medellin river, without giving the family the chance to see him, but they did something very cruel to him, they ended his life for no reason, they simply made the decision. We are here crying out for justice, trusting in justice,” said the mother.

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Miguel Ángel had left his house, in the Floresta-La Pradera neighborhood, lower part, San Javier sector, western Medellín, on February 8.

According to relatives, he had an appointment at a friend’s house in the Belén-Rincón neighborhood, and was seen for the last time that day, around 9:30 pm, near a well-known supermarket in the sector.

Gangs known as the ‘Chivos’, the ‘Pájaros’ and the ‘Autodefensas Gaitanistas’ operate in the sector where the minor disappeared.

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