Krokodil-Horror in Costa Rica!
Puerto Limon – On October 30, eight-year-old Julio Otero Fernández was walking along a river in Costa Rica with his parents and siblings. There, near their house, the family wants to go fishing.
Terrible: As the boy stands in the knee-deep water of the Matina River, only a few meters away from his relatives, a large crocodile pounces on him. To the screams of his family, the boy is brutally killed.
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“The crocodile shook him and tore his little head off,” an eyewitness later describes the horror attack „New York Post“. “Then it grabbed him again and dragged him under the water.”
Julio’s parents, Don Julio Otero and Margini Fernández Flores, watch helplessly as their son is mauled by the reptile: “The worst thing for my wife was seeing the crocodile swimming away with my son’s body,” Otero describes the incident .
A American Crocodile in the Tárcoles River in Costa Rica
The father recalls that the scaly predator reappeared more than an hour later – and still had his child’s body in its mouth. According to Otero, the police officers who were at the scene at the time refused to shoot the animal. They didn’t have “the authority,” officials said.
Then it dived again – and the lifeless body of the eight-year-old was last seen.
Poacher shoots killer crocodile
On Saturday, nearly a month after the child’s gruesome death, an unidentified hunter reportedly shot and killed a crocodile in the area. The hunter fled, killing crocodiles is a punishable offense in Costa Rica.
When locals cut open the animal’s abdomen, they found strands of hair and bone fragments believed to belong to Julio.
Julio’s mother confirmed the discovery of hair and bones in the crocodile carcass: “The animal is dead. It’s a great relief for me that they killed it,” said Flores. “I wish they would kill them all so no family ever has to go through that kind of pain again.”
The human remains have been turned over to local authorities for DNA testing.
“Abandoned by the authorities”
The parents of the dead boy now want to go back to their native Nicaragua after moving to Costa Rica four years ago. “For my part, I feel let down by the authorities,” says the father: “An animal is worth more than a person, that’s what I thought.”
“I will not stay here because these animals are protected and are able to leave the river and attack more people,” explains Julio’s mother, Flores.