2023-06-13 13:14:09
The miraculous rescue gives way to a bitter dispute. After their unexpected discovery on Friday June 9 in the jungle of Colombia, it is the question of the attribution of their guardianship which now arises for Leslie (13 years old), Soleini (9 years old), Tien Noriel (5 years old) and Cristin Neriman (1 year). Their mother, Magdalena Mucutuy, died in the crash of the small plane that led the children to wander the Amazon jungle for 40 days.
Three days after their rescue, at the same time as he underlined the “satisfactory recovery process” young survivors, the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) announced on Monday June 12 that it had launched an administrative procedure on the return of children to their families. According to Adriana Velásquez, deputy director of the ICBF, work is already underway to organize the first meeting. With a mission on the agenda: the opening of an investigation into allegations of abuse against Manuel Miller Ranoque, the father of the two youngest children.
According to several articles published in the Colombian press in recent days, the man is said to be accused of sexual abuse of his children and domestic violence against their mother. Manuel Miller Ranoque was quick to respond, denying the veracity of these accusations made public by family members of the mother of the four children. To defend himself, the father assured that it was a strategy led by the Mucutuy family with whom he would be in conflict. A maneuver aimed, he assures, at him “withdraw custody of the children and recover from “money”.
For her part, her maternal grandmother informed the authorities that she wanted custody of her four grandchildren.
The Colombian Institute of Family Welfare will retain guardianship of the children until the family dispute is resolved. And media craze obliges, the authorities want to remain discreet. “We cannot reveal information which, at this stage of the process, is the sole responsibility of the administrative authority, namely the family mediator”, supported the ICBF.
“Ethnic Perspective”
The minors are surrounded by a psychosocial team and a lawyer, who is their defender, acting as an administrative authority, in accordance with the country’s children’s code. As the four children belong to a Colombian ethnic group, the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare recalled that the process required interjurisdictional coordination with Opiac, the indigenous authority of the country. The goal: to set upan environment that allows the best administrative decisions to be made, but which also takes into account an ethnic and differential perspective, which recovers the habits and customs, but which is also in accordance with the traditions of the people to which the children who have been rescued belong »assured Adriana Velásquez, the deputy director.
Anyway, the children are still hospitalized, having been found completely malnourished and dehydrated following their long stay in one of the most hostile environments on Earth. Although their lives are not in danger, the two older sisters have recorded “fever spikes” Monday, while the youngest is “guarded” because of a “possible contamination” food, ICBF director Astrid Caceres told local radio station W Radio.
Presenting “different clinical cases”Leslie, Soleini, Tien Noriel et Cristin Neriman “will not all leave at the same time the military hospital where they are being treated today”, said the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare. “They will probably come out at different times, […] in three or four weeks».
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