The case of Candelaria, Valle del Cauca”>Sofía Delgado Zúñiga, a 12-year-old girl who was found dead in a cane in the south of Valle del Cauca after 19 days of intense search, has deeply shocked the country.
The confession and arrest of Brayan Snaither Campo Pillimue, 32, has marked a new and tragic chapter in this painful story that shook the municipality of Candelaria.
Campo Pillimue, who was a neighbor of Sofía’s family, was captured after admitting his responsibility in the femicide. During the investigation process, the man took the authorities to the place where he had buried the girl’s body, in a rural area near Candelaria. Sofía’s remains were found wrapped in plastic bags and dismembered, a fact that has generated a wave of pain and indignation among the inhabitants of the municipality and the entire country.
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Charges
The Attorney General’s Office, through a prosecutor from the Cali Section, charged Campo Pillimue with the crimes of aggravated feminicide, aggravated simple kidnapping, aggravated attempted kidnapping and concealment, alteration and destruction of evidentiary material. During the hearing held before a guarantee control judge in Palmira, the accused accepted the four charges against him.
The legal process continues to advance, and it is expected that in the next few hours, the authorities will determine the custodial measure that will be imposed on the man who, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, was not only responsible for the retention, murder and concealment of Sofía’s body. Slim, but also a failed attempt to kidnap another minor.
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