The Colombian Justice has issued a 32 -year prison sentence for Manuel Renoque, stepfather and father of the missing minors in the Colombian jungle in May 2023 and who were rescued after 40 days within the framework of an operation baptized as ‘Operation Esperanza’.
Although during the weeks of the search in 2023 he was very concerned about lost minors, referring to all of them as their own children, although he was only the biological father of the two smaller ones, everything changed radically after they were rescued. After the reunion, the Colombian Family Welfare Institute decided to take it away, it did not allow him He mistreated his grandchildren and sexually abused the greatest of them.
Subsequent investigations showed that between 2020 and 2023, the minor was sexually assaulted in a shelter located in Solano (Caquetá), the prosecution itself has reported in a communication disseminated through social network X.
At the beginning of last month, for the crimes of sexual act with under 14 years and violent carnal access, both aggravated. It was only known the penalty, which has now been established.
The judicial resolution provides compliance with the conviction in the penitentiary center. However, the sentence issued is first instance and there is still the possibility that they appear against it law.
in which they were traveling with their mother in southern Colombia in May 2023, four brothers – thirteen, nine, four and one year of age – spent 40 days in the jungle until they were found by a search group formed by military and indigenous people, of which the accused was part.
In the incident, the pilot and the mother of the children lost their lives, who were making available to the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF), an instance before which the girl denounced that “for almost three years the minor endured vexars and abuses.”
