No To Money For Murder Of Yuliana Samboni

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Five months have passed since one of the most heinous crimes in Colombian history happened: the murder of the 7-year-old girl, Yuliana Samboní, who was kidnapped at the door of her home and abused and tortured before being deprived of his life.

Although his confessed murderer, Rafael Uribe Noguera - an architect member of a willing Bogota family - admitted his crime and was already sentenced to more than half a century in prison, the parents of the minor of indigenous origin still do not find comfort and now they assure that he has not They want money as compensation for the death of their daughter.

The news came about due to an appeal request made earlier this week by the lawyer representing the Samboní family, Viviana Benavídez, who according to BBC reports, asks that the murder sentence be raised to 60 years, the maximum allowed by Colombian laws.

When Uribe Noguera was sentenced in March to 51 years and 10 months in prison by a judge in Bogotá, he was also fined 100 current minimum wages, equivalent to about 74 million Colombian pesos (a fee for the girl's family But that is incorrect since, according to the BBC, said sum would be destined to the Colombian state. "The Samboní family is indigenous and they consider that if they obtain money it would be like selling their daughter," said Benavídez.