Colombia investigating 118 soldiers over sexual abuse of indigenous children
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said that 118 soldiers are being investigated for the...
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29 arrested across Colombia in child sex-abuse crackdown: National Police
Police have arrested 29 people for sexual violence against minors in May, according to a...
1,300 registered allegations of sexual abuse reported in Colombia this year
The Center for Research and Comprehensive Care for Victims of Sexual Abuse (CAIVAS) has revealed...
UN report uses Colombia Cardenal as example of Church’s ‘code of silence’ toward sexual abuse
The United Nations (UN) released a scathing report Wednesday condemning what it painted as the...
11 cases of sexual abuse per day in Bogota in 2012
According to the national coroner’s office, there were 4,118 reported cases of sexual abuse in Colombia’s capital city of Bogota in 2012, 3,357 of which were against girls or women. Bogota’s government...
Kidnap highlights Colombia’s underage pregnancy problem
The Director of Colombia’s Family Welfare Unit on Tuesday said that a case will be brought against the father of a kidnapped and rescued baby if the mother indeed became pregnant at age 13. According to local media, the...
Child abuse in Colombia up 40%; Report
Child abuse in Colombia has increased 40% over the past year, reported Radio Caracol on Tuesday. During an event for the World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse on Monday, director of the National Pediatrics Federation Carlo...
Cali priest convicted of sexual abuse of 3 children
A priest from the southwestern Colombian city of Cali is convicted for the 2009 sexual abuse of three children when they were 10, 11 and 12. According to Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office’s website, the...
Sexual abuse of Colombian children doubles in 6 years
New figures from the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF) indicate a dramatic increase in child abuse since 2006. The number of complaints of mistreatment registered by the ICBF has risen from around 55,000 in 2006 to...
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 significantly higher than previously reported...
Catholic Church must compensate family of sexually abused children
The Catholic Church has been court-ordered to pay the family whose children were sexually abused by a priest more than $165,000 in compensation, Caracol Radio reported Tuesday. The Criminal Division of the Tribunal Superior of...
Priest to serve 7 years for sexual abuse of child
A Colombian court sentenced a priest and former teacher to over seven years in prison for sexually abusing his 10-year-old student, reported the news site Terra Friday. An attorney at the Prosecutor General’s Office in Bogota...
