The mother of a minor reported that this Wednesday, March 2 at 4:50 in the afternoon her son was the victim of sexual abuse in a shopping center in the town of Bosa called Gran Plaza. A man attacked him after cheating on him. “He left school and told his friends to go for a walk in the mall.”
On the second floor of the establishment, he was approached by a man, who asked him to tell him where the bathrooms were located. The young man told him that there were some on the second floor and others on the third. “This man asked him to accompany him, telling him that he was not from here and that he could get lost. My son, to help him, accompanied him to the entrance.”
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But there he intimidated him in such a way that, subdued, he had to do what the stranger asked him to do. She forced him into the last of the bathrooms to corner him. “My son asked him to please not do anything to him, he took away the jacket he was wearing, his shirt and began to do all kinds of outrages with him. He threatened him all the time.”
Just at that moment the stranger, 1.80 tall, intimidated the minor, threatened him and entered one of the bathrooms. That is where the violent sexual assault occurred, as described by the victim. “My son was totally paralyzed. He was abused. I need you to help me find the rapist.”
The aggressor took out a 50,000 peso bill and put it in the boy’s pockets. He completely subdued him in the loneliness of the baths.
While everything was happening, the minor was screaming and, when two of his friends realized that the young man was taking a long time in the bathroom, they began to ask for help. The attacker escaped without anyone chasing him. “He even yelled at my son’s two companions that they were deaf and ran away. My son was lying in the bathroom. He no longer had a cell phone or money.”
The victim told her friends everything that happened. They searched for the security guards of the Gran Plaza shopping center. “They told a woman who warns other people on the radio about what happened and my son, in the meantime, called the number of the stolen phone from the cell phone of one of his friends. He was answered by a woman who tells him that the phone belongs to a depraved and what was he doing doing things in the bathroom. I mean, like extorting money. The woman says to pass it on to the security guards and hangs up.”
The children asked the security guards of the shopping center for help, but they did not notify the police. “Instead of calling the authorities, they sent the minors home,” the minor’s mother denounced. “I arrived at the house and my son told me such a barbarity. From there we went to the CAI of Bosa La Estación, where the agent escorted us, he sent us with the quadrant of the area to the shopping center and there they asked to speak with the one in charge”.
According to the mother’s version, what the supervisor answers is that at that time there was no one in charge. “I told him why he hadn’t activated any route. And he told me that my son had wanted to go into the bathroom with that man. I said: ‘How can you think that someone would want to be abused like that?’ Then the police took us to the Bosa hospital. Sijín has already come and we are waiting for a visit from the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF).”
The victim is being evaluated at the Bosa Hospital and is very affected physically and psychologically. “My son is a very good student, he has always ranked first, he is very friendly and obedient. He has always excelled at school and in everything he does. I want the mall to explain why it did not help my son and to collaborate with everything that the authority asks of him”.
What does the mall say?
EL TIEMPO contacted the Gran Plaza shopping center. Spokesmen explained that they will issue a statement in a few minutes about what was reported and their version of events.
The Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (Icbf) told EL TIEMPO that during the year 2021 they were denounced in Bogotá 4,456 cases of sexual violence in Bogotá against minors and that only in January of this year there were already 291.
The National Police was aware of this case and therefore several units moved to the scene. “We spoke with the mother of the minor. We accompanied him and explained how the route to follow is arranged to victims of sexual crimes”said Major Diego Loza, commander of the Bogotá Police for Children and Adolescents. The respective investigations are being carried out to find the whereabouts of the aggressor.
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