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Colombians mourned Yuliana Andrea Samboni, the 7-year-old girl who was raped, tortured and killed in a case that has sparked nationwide protests to demand justice.
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Hundreds met at the community of Tambo, Cauca, where relatives and friends organized a mass and a ceremony to remember Samboni. Colombians took to the streets and vowed to continue protesting in demand of justice, 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.
Que dolor!!!...En este momento la comunidad del Tambo despide para siempre a Yuliana Samboní...#NiUnaMas #NiUnaMenos...No más feminicidios.. pic.twitter.com/BLVdRsx851
— Lorena Hoyos (@LHoyosteleSUR) December 9, 2016
Rafael Uribe Noguera, the suspected perpetrator, is a 38-year-old architect from one of Bogota’s wealthiest neighborhoods, and was detained on Monday at a clinic in Bogota where he had reportedly checked himself in for treatment for a cocaine overdose after killing his victim.
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Noguera, who faces 60 years in prison, reportedly called the police in an intoxicated state and confessed to the crime.
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.
The case has called attention not only to the systemic violence that girls and women face in Colombia and around the world, but also to the clear class divide contributing to their exploitation.
Hundreds of thousands of women across Latin America have taken to the streets in recent months to protest rampant gender violence, machismo and institutional barriers, inherited from colonial pasts, that have fueled these systemic crimes.
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