The maternal grandfather reports that the father abused the mother of four, rescued in the Colombian jungle after surviving a plane crash and missing for 40 days for their custody shortly after the rescue, which took place last Friday (09/06).
The four rescued siblings – the girls Lesly (13 years old), Soleiny (9 years old) and Cristin (1) and the boy Tien Noriel (5), of the Uitoto indigenous ethnic group – continue to receive treatment at the military hospital in Bogotá and they are recovering well, Colombian authorities announced on Tuesday.
The deputy director of the Colombian Institute for Family Protection (ICBF), Adriana Velasquez, said the children like to talk and are in a good mood. They also drew and colored.
The children are expected to remain in hospital for several more days, as the ICBF is talking to relatives to determine who will have custody of them following the death of their mother, Magdalena Mucutuy, in a plane crash last May. 1 and in which an indigenous leader and the pilot of the plane also died.
The plane, a Cessna 206, disappeared from radar on May 1, near San José del Guaviare, in southern Colombia, where it was headed.
Complaints against the father
ICBF president Astrid Cáceres told Blu radio station that a professional from the institution is in charge of taking care of the children while their custody is being decided.
“We will talk, we will investigate, we will learn a little more about the situation,” said Cáceres, who does not rule out that the mother and children may have been victims of domestic violence.
On Sunday, the children’s maternal grandfather, Narciso Mucutuy, accused the children’s father, Manuel Ranoque, of beating their mother, Magdalena Mucutuy.
Ranoque acknowledged there was trouble at the house, but felt it was a private matter. “Verbally sometimes yes. Physically very little, because we’ve had more verbal fights.”
Ranoque said he was not allowed to see the two older children, whose biological father he is not, at the hospital. Cáceres said it was an administrative decision as part of the process of restitution of children’s rights.
Details
The four children remained near the crashed plane for four days, waiting for rescue, and only then decided to go out to see if they could leave the jungle, said grandfather Narciso, according to statements released by the Colombian defense ministry. Narciso said he was told by Lesly, the eldest of the children.
The father, on the other hand, said that his eldest daughter told him that their mother was alive for four days after the plane crash and that, before she died, she would have told her children to leave for help.
Last Sunday, Colombian television broadcast images of the moment when the four indigenous children met the rescuers, who are also indigenous.
The images, captured by a mobile phone, show the four visibly malnourished children in the arms of indigenous men.
One of the natives, Nicolas Ordoñez Gomes, told the studio that the first thing one of the children said to him was that he was hungry. Another, after receiving food, said that her mother had died and asked for bread and sausage.
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Source: Terra
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