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In the midst of the tireless Search for Loan Danilo Peña -the five-year-old boy who disappeared in Corrientes-, images of those arrested for the crime of human trafficking have not stopped circulating. Between photos and videos, a television moment of the retired sailor Carlos perez He gained special notoriety when his daughter, Brisa, joined the plane, and many highlighted the resemblance to Sofia Herrera, the minor who disappeared on September 28, 2008 at a campsite in Río Grande. Her mother, Maria Elena Delgadoruled out a similarity.
“The woman (by Brisa’s mother) says she is 14 years old. If she is that age she could never be my daughter. They filled me with messages with the photo of Pérez’s daughter and I saw the little girl, but I don’t find her very similar to my daughter Sofía.“, he said, in dialogue with Miter radio. In addition, Delgado said that in recent years several DNA tests were carried out to determine the possible identity of young people who had similar characteristics to the girl who would be 19 years old today.
Perez and his wife, the former municipal official María Victoria Caillava, They are part of the latest batch of detainees in the case that seeks to establish Loan’s whereabouts. The couple was captured last Friday after being implicated in the “human trafficking” case.
With the experience conferred by the more than 15 years of searching for his daughter, Delgado also referred to versions about what could have happened to Loan, who was last seen on Thursday, June 13. “It is very distressing to turn on the television in the morning; One wants to see that Loan appeared and unfortunately today it has been 12 days and there is no information about him. It’s frustrating for everyone“, lament.
In this same framework, he compared both cases and considered that in neither case can it be determined precisely “for what purpose they were taken.” “In the case of my daughter we are like the first day. A lot of work was done and the file is huge, but There is not a single piece of information that leads us to know where it may be.”, he said and marked: “It could be an illegal adoption because nothing about my daughter was ever found in all the areas where she was searched.”.
“Maybe she has another identity and doesn’t even know that she is Sofía Herrera. I was here last year in a town in Chile and no one knows that there is a search for my daughter because the police are changed every three or four years and they have no knowledge. There was no more talk about her there either,” he continued.
Finally, the woman assured that she remains hopeful about finding the girl and that is what “keeps her going” every day.
On September 28, 2008, Delgado and her husband Fabián Herrera were with their three-year-old daughter at the John Goodall campsite, located at kilometer 2893 of National Route 3, near the town of Río Grande where she lived. After 11:30, Sofía – three years old at the time – was separated from her parents for a few moments and that was when she disappeared.
The scene of the incident was an almost desert area of 15 hectares, fenced with a wire one meter high and six strands that was investigated instantly. Police officers and dogs specialized in search and tracking marked a nearby sector, but the trail disappeared a few meters further away. The hypotheses were several: since the little fell into a stream that a condor or an eagle took her. As the days went by, the possibility that she was kidnapped was added, a version that her mother has maintained since then.
After several expert reports, reconstructions of the events, interrogations of witnesses, the collaboration of FBI agents, a reward of one million pesos granted by the Ministry of Security for the provision of useful data about the disappearance and a portrait made by a robot which is updated over the years, there was still no success in finding the girl who is still missing.
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