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Colombian Attorney General Nestor Humberto Martinez said Tuesday that Rafael Uribe Noguera's brother and sister helped him manipulate the scene of the crime to hinder the investigation into the abduction, torture, rape and murder of 7-year-old Yuliana Andrea Samboni.
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Apparently, the corpse of the child was hidden in a bathroom and then placed in the bath, where they washed away the traces of blood. The investigators found one of the girl's shoe in Uribe's car and another in his apartment.
Uribe was detained on Monday at a clinic in Bogota where he had reportedly checked himself in for treatment for a cocaine overdose.
Colombians took to the streets and vowed to continue protesting to assure that justice is done in yet another case of femicide in the country. In Colombia, six women are abused by an intimate partner every hour, one woman suffers sexual violence every 30 minutes, and one woman is a victim of femicide at the hands of a current or former partner every three days, according to official statistics.
Uribe, who faces 60 years in prison, called the police in a state of hallucination and confessed to the crime. After five hours, which the accomplices used to try to alter the facts, they took Uribe to the clinic where he still remains. The murder of the minor was precipitated by her kidnapping while she was playing at the door of her home in the Bosque Calderon neighborhood in the town of Chapinero, north of Bogota.
The suspected perpetrator is a 38-year-old architect from one of Bogota’s wealthiest neighborhoods, while Yuliana was an Indigenous Yanacona girl from one of the city's poorest areas.
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