2024-07-21 23:23:14
In response to these statements, the Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrich, and the Governor of Corrientes, Gustavo Váldes, are working to coordinate the search for the body.
The case of Loan Peña, The five-year-old boy who remains missing in the province of Corrientes, Argentina, faced a setback, after an aunt of the minor confessed that he is dead.
According to La Nación, Laudelina Peña stated that Loan was run over and killed while returning from picking oranges and was later buried in the woods.
The woman explained to the Public Prosecutor’s Office that the The boy was run over by the truck of Carlos Guido Pérez, one of those arrested in the investigation, who was under the influence of alcohol.
Pérez and his wife were part of the group of people who participated in the lunch held at Loan’s grandmother’s house on June 13.
On that occasion, Loan Peña went to pick oranges accompanied by other adults and more children. The minor’s aunt stated that the minor was run over by Pérez when he was leaving lunch.
After his death, the individual threatened Laudelina to leave the boy’s loot, which was later found in a rural area to support the theory of his disappearance.
“Caillava (Carlos Pérez’s wife) brought me Loan’s loot and told me that she was going to kill me if I didn’t put it in the field,” said the aunt, who said that he heard the moment of the fatal accident and that the body was loaded into the truck itself, to later be buried in a mountain.
In response to these statements, the Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrich, and the Governor of Corrientes, Gustavo Váldes, are working to coordinate the search for the body.