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The disappearance of Loan Peñathe five-year-old boy from Corrientes who has been missing from home since June 13, brought attention to July 9thhead town of the municipality where the Algarrobal areawhere the minor was last seen.
The last trace we have of Loan occurred at a lunch in the aforementioned rural area where his grandmother lived. Katherine. As the days went by, the court case changed its abandonment cover from person to an abduction with the possible destination of a trafficking network and went to federal justice.
loanwho was visiting the humble residence for the second time with his father José, disappeared after that meal, in which Part of her paternal family and also acquaintances of Catalina participated., which today makes up five of the six detainees in the investigation. Although at first the defendants maintained that he had gotten lost when returning to the house from a nearby orange grove, various evidence dismantled this version and gave the investigation its current character.
Therefore, with the passing of the search days, the attention of the researchers He left Algarrobal to focus on July 9. The thing is that a large part of her family and those suspected (who also include his uncle-in-law) lived in that century-old town, the epicenter of the protests calling for Loan’s appearance.
Specifically, two of the main suspects had positions of power in the town, from which they were removed once they were accused. Victoria Callabaone of those suspected of making the final delivery of loan for trafficking purposes, she was the municipality’s Production Director, and the only detainee who did not participate in that meal is Walter Macielthe until then commissioner of July 9thaccused of cover up the crime by diverting the investigations in the first days.
For the prosecutors in the case, the main hypothesis is that the meal on Sunday the 13th at the house of Katherine It was an excuse to kidnap the child and sell him to a third party for human trafficking purposes. Due to this accusation, in addition to the aforementioned suspects, the retired sailor is being held in preventive detention. Carlos perez (Caillava’s husband), Bernardo Antonio Benitez (Loan’s uncle-in-law) and a couple of Benítez’s friends, Daniel “Fierrito” Ramírez and Monica Millapi.
July 9th It is located in the west of Corrientes, 179 kilometers from the capital of the same name and 74 kilometers from Goya, the second most populated city in the province. It is a more than centenary town: on February 28, it celebrated 148 years of its foundation, carried out on a previous site called Oratorio Ojeda, at the expense of the government of Juan Vicente Pampín (1875-1876).
Administratively, the town is part of the fourth section of the department of San Roque. The town is crossed by national route 123, which reaches 9 de Julio at kilometer 20 and connects it with national route 14, whose route touches the border with Brazil in Paso de los Libres.
The town has approximately 2,500 inhabitants, and is the head of the municipality of the same name. As mentioned, among the places that make up July 9th this caroba rural area where Loan Peña’s paternal grandmother, Catalina, lives and where the boy was last seen at a lunch on June 13.
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