Church ordered to pay $238,000 to child abuse victims: El Tiempo
A Colombian court orders the Catholic Church to pay $238,000 as compensation to the families of two victims of a pedophile priest, newspaper El Tiempo reported Tuesday. The amount is…
A Colombian court orders the Catholic Church to pay $238,000 as compensation to the families of two victims of a pedophile priest, newspaper El Tiempo reported Tuesday. The amount is…
A study reveals that 7 out of 10 mothers in Colombia’s capital Bogota beat their children, reported newspaper El Tiempo Tuesday. Of the annual 4,500 child abuse cases reported in Colombia,…
A community in northeast Bogota have attacked the police for protecting a man who they wanted to lynch for the alleged raping of an 11-year-old girl, El Espectador reported Monday.…
A woman has been sent to prison for horrific acts of child abuse that she enacted upon her six-year old stepdaughter, El Espectador reported Friday. The stepmother from Duitama, in…
A referendum calling for life imprisonment for child molesters or murderers has passed the first debate in the Colombian senate, El Espectador reported Wednesday. The referendum bill, which arrived at…
Colombian senators are pushing for a constitutional amendment that will allow child rapists to be handed a life sentence, Terra reported on Tuesday. Life sentencing is currently banned in Colombia,…
A Colombian priest is among the clergies who escaped U.S. justice despite child abuse allegations, a 10,000-page document, declassified by the church on Monday, showed. One of the names in…
A Tolima judge Thursday sentenced ‘the Monster of Mariquita’ to 15 years in prison for the 30-year-long sexual abuse of his daughter with who he had eight children. Arcedio Alvarez,…
A suspected Bogota child abuser died of a heart attack while being lynched by his neighbors, newspaper El Espectador reported Monday. The inhabitants of Britalia, a neighborhood in the south…