2004News

Entire police station under arrest

The chief of police has ordered the arrest of the entire detachment of the force that was located at the La Avanzada station near San Isidro. The story begins with Cinthia Arlene Perez Suarez and her two adolescent girls, who were kidnapped as they waited for a taxi in front of Multicentro Churchill and brought to another location where the two girls, ages 12 and 15, were sexually assaulted. According to Hoy and the Listin Diario, when the parents went to the police at La Avanzada after their daughters’ abduction, the agents’ only response was to tell them to come back in the morning. According to the Listin Diario, the unbearable experience of being forced to witness the rape of her daughters was magnified by the police’s unwillingness to assist her. The spokesman for the Department of Criminal Investigation, Colonel Jose Rafael Castro Urena, told reporters that the arrested policemen are claiming that they were forbidden to take statements and complaints regarding adolescent sex crimes.