Brayan Snaither Campo Pillimué, 32, was detained in a prison after confessing to the murder of a 12-year-old girl in the municipality of Candelaria, Valle del Cauca.
The minor, reported missing on September 29, was found dead 18 days later in a cane near the road that connects Candelaria with Florida. Campo Pilimué, arrested on October 16, He accepted the charges of aggravated femicide, aggravated simple kidnapping, aggravated attempted simple kidnapping and concealment, alteration and destruction of evidentiary material.
According to the investigation led by the Attorney General’s Office in coordination with the National Police, the girl was intercepted by Campo Pilimué when she returned to her residence, after picking up shampoo for her pet. The man, who had a commercial establishment selling items for animals, offered him a collar as a pretext for him to enter the premises. Once inside, he hit her on the head, causing her death. hours latermoved his body on a motorcycle to a cane, where he hid it.
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The investigation revealed that minutes before the murder, Campo Pilimué allegedly tried to kidnap another minor under 12 years of agewho managed to escape. Based on this and other evidence, the authorities They raided his business and home, where they found evidence that linked him to the crime.
The prosecutor in charge presented the case before a guarantee control judge from Palmira, and after the charges were brought, Campo Pilimué accepted his responsibility. Now, he will remain under security measure in a prison while the judicial proceedings progress. The National Institute of Legal Medicine confirmed the identity of the victim, and indicated that his body was partially cremated in the place where it was found.
This tragic event has generated great commotion in the community of Candelaria and throughout Valle del Cauca, and the authorities have assured that they will continue working to clarify all the details of this case and bring justice to the minor’s family.
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