Former Paramilitary Hernan Giraldo Charged With Child Sexual Abuse in Colombia
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AUC/9 SEP 2022
BY SARA GARCÍA AND LAURA ÁVILA
An infamous former paramilitary commander of Colombia’s once-feared right-wing self-defense forces has formally been charged with sexually abusing minors, which authorities allege he carried out while in two prisons following his demobilization.
Colombia's Attorney General's Office announced the charges on September 8 after several months of investigating Hernán Giraldo Serna, alias "El Taladro,” a former commander with the so-called Tayrona Resistance Bloc of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia - AUC).
"The evidence collected by the Colombian Attorney General's Office indicates that at least four minors were exploited and tricked into [going to] detention centers located in [the departments of] Antioquia and Atlántico, where Giraldo was detained between February 2006 and May 2008," prosecutors stated.
The Attorney’s General’s Office added these acts are alleged crimes against humanity. Giraldo was also charged with violent sexual assault, human trafficking, and forced abortion.
More:
https://insightcrime.org/news/paramilitary-hernan-giraldo-sexual-abuse-colombia/
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Earlier:
Hernán Giraldo Serna, the paramilitary who, from the rape of girls, spawned an army that still terrorizes the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Human rights defender Norma Vera Salazar managed to unravel the mind and action of one of Colombia's most dangerous paramilitaries.
Newsroom Infobae
March 23, 2022
On January 25, at 6:25 p.m. in the afternoon, Hernán Giraldo Serna, one of the most bloody and feared paramilitaries in the country, arrived deported to Colombia from the United States, where he remained behind bars for twelve years on drug trafficking charges. The announcement was made by Migration Colombia.
Now, the former paramilitary must serve a sentence for the crimes he committed against the civilian population, when he was part of the AUC.
Giraldo, 72, was known as 'El Patrón', 'El Tigre' or 'El señor de la Sierra', and all the inhabitants of the Sierra Nevada were afraid of him for being the commander of the AUC's 'Resistencia Tayrona' Bloc and his well-known torture techniques.
With his arrival in the country, fear aroused among the victims and inhabitants of the Sierra Nevada, as violence could escalate in this region of Colombia.
This war criminal is famous for territorial control and for having used sexual abuse of underage girls as a method of fear within armed conflict.
More:
https://www.infobae.com/en/2022/03/23/hernan-giraldo-serna-the-paramilitary-who-from-the-rape-of-girls-spawned-an-army-that-still-terrorizes-the-sierra-nevada-de-santa-marta/
