Colombia’s former President Andres Pastrana has been tied to the child abuse scandal around Jeffrey Epstein, an American millionaire and sex offender who apparently committed suicide on Saturday. Pastrana’s name…
A controversial document stipulating that priests are solely responsible in child abuse cases and not the church, has been circulated by the Catholic Church in Colombia, reported local media. So…
A two-year-old boy is in a Bogota intensive care unit after having been raped and physically assaulted. His mother has refused to identify the offender.
The mayor of Taraza, a town in northern Colombia, has been arrested on charges he sexually abused a child under 14 while in office, newspaper El Colombiano reported on Monday.
After Marxist rebel group FARC vowed to ban the recruitment of minors, Colombia’s authorities are looking into neo-paramilitary groups that are accused of kidnapping girls to submit them as sex…
Police in Colombia’s second largest city, Medellin, on Saturday arrested a priest for the alleged sexual abuse of a 13-year-old boy.
Two children are sexually abused in Colombia every hour, the country’s Medical Examiner’s Office said Tuesday.
An 11-year-old girl from the southwestern Colombian city of Cali nearly died after her father fed her 104 capsules filled with drugs before traveling abroad, local media reported Tuesday.
Following pressure over ongoing sexual exploitation of children in the city, Medellin’s mayor announced on Wednesday that a police crackdown has saved 16 children from sexual exploitation.