Here's the story, taken from Colombia's 'El Tiempo" paper, after the google translation to English

[Judi Lynn]

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January 5, 2008

History of Emmanuel, the child who is in suspense to the country and internationally to prostrate FARC



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A Clara Gonzalez de Rojas, mother of Clara Rojas, the public prosecutor's office took DNA samples that were used to corroborate the child in the hands ICBF it was Emmanuel, his grandson.

WEATHER (Tiempo, name of paper) reconstructs his short life, and reveals apart unpublished testimony that Jose Crisanto Gomez, the man who received it in 2005 at the hands of the guerrillas, gave the Prosecution.

" 'Raul Reyes' I confirmed verbally and physically, in front of me, look at me in the eyes."

The journalist Jorge Enrique Botero and recalled the day he learned, by accident, Clara Rojas-kidnapped almost 6 years by the FARC-had had a child with a guerrilla and that the child was called Emmanuel.

The existence of the child began to circulate in the early days of April 2006, when Botero promoted his book 'Latest news from the war'.

He recounted how a guerrilla who was speaking for the first time Emmanuel, the first child born in the country kidnapped, whose location-made just 8 days, CTI units of the Attorney-today literally against the wall to the organization Illegal which proclaims him as a child.

The FARC acknowledged own on Friday in a brief and confusing statement, the child had been delivered to a family and that is the same as under the name of Juan David Gomez Tapiero, is now in the hands of the ICBF.

Only a handful of officials at the highest level of government knows the whereabouts of the child, 3 and a half years, which remains guarded by officers on deck.

The first tests

Following the release of Botero, new data came loose: that Emmanuel was born by caesarean section in the middle of jungle and without the best medical conditions. That Clara and the father of the baby had been separated from pregnancy ...

The first to react to this dramatic story were relatives of the abducted lawyer: Ivan Rojas, her brother, called for a retraction and Botero that froze the sale of the book. And Clara Gonzalez de Rojas, mother of the lawyer, rejected that version was based on a "rumor" without further evidence.

But such evidence began to arrive a year later, on April 28, 2007, with the mayor of Police John Frank Pinchao, who after running away from a field of abducted by FARC, in which remained shackled by 9-years confirmed birth of the baby, whom he had seen a couple of times.

She described through some holes in the walls of a camp table that was carried realized pregnancy of Clara Rojas. He added that the care of the baby was similar to that of a child and indigenous guerrillas who kidnapped him and the manufacturing ropita.

'Gritaba that it is not removed'

Pinchao also said that months after birth, which occurred in July 2004, were carried to the small and Clara claimed that it returned: "She shouted the child's name and requesting that it stop watch. Guerrillas did not put attention . during the walk we returned to see what, but what led to the guerrilla they called 'Rosa'. "

From Dad said Pinchao, commented that he was to kill. Today we know that the CTI is called John David, that his nickname is' Rigo 'and that belongs to the front 54 of the FARC.

Pinchao recounted that "in the early months, a guerrilla who had served as nurses, known as' William ', led to his small camp and it showed I was a kid blanquito he had problems at birth." According to his account, 'William' will put a splint or cast on one arm from a fracture he had suffered during childbirth.

Key Testimony

Jose Crisanto Gomez assured him the Prosecutor 12 Antisecuestro that health problems of children-also affected by malaria and leishmaniasis-forcing the FARC to handing him: "They took him to my house in the village of La Paz, in the municipality of El Return (Guaviare) where my father-in-law, a healer, began to respond. "

Tovar Gomez, a native of Ortega (Tolima), had gone to La Paz to scrape coca. However, with the delivery of the baby that was found more trouble.

"It is not allowed to FARC guerrillas have children, and when it is too late for an abortion, birth supplied to the militia in the towns closest," says a former director of the hospital in The Return.

We delivered months

"Here we bring this child to you heal the bite of pito and you settle the arm," Gomez told Tovar guerrillas.

The man, who works as a mason, told the Prosecutor's Office that was visible fracture and had three marks for leishmaniasis, one of them in the right cheekbone.

"I had five children at the time and lived with my wife and she did not like anything (...) but it was a situation that I, if I refused, because I was going to have problems," said Gomez Tovar.

According to him, the child would be about three months old and although he had been told that they would return the next day with diapers and milk, "spent four months without anything."

After that the guerrillas returned, they saw the child and realized it had improved slightly health. They left a jar of milk and diapers and left. One of the guerrillas went to see it said that it was very nice and like his father, Juan David. It was registered under that name.

The circumstances under which lived Tovar Gomez were not the best. "The economic situation in The Return of raspachín was very critical, including several people with him colaborábamos markets for persistent," he assured WEATHER Jairo Martinez Bonilla, a former candidate for Mayor of the municipality.

The Escape To Return

Gomez Tovar went to the municipality of Guaviare after the guerrillas denied permission to leave La Paz.

"As I told a friend-tells Jose Crisanto, he made the request to leave because one of their seven children had malaria and children who had surrendered was also very sick."

Although initially the two infants were attended by infusions and plasters made with leaves of trees, the health of both children worsened.

"The desperation that produced cries of children did that without the permission of the guerrilla group, Tovar Gomez with his family to undertake the journey to the centre of The Return, knowing beforehand that he could not return," explains an official of Mayor of the municipality.

"Against all odds and against the wishes of her (wife), joined by some chiritos there and got a canoe and cast all children and I brought the child who told him 'pegui.' The child was' we said 'pegui' with a character from the television, "Gomez told Tovar.

After a two-day trip and going through a roadblock by the guerrillas came close to The Return.

Jose Crisanto stayed in the residence, but the poor conditions they presented, especially the smallest children, a neighbour who did denounce the fact to the municipal office of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare.

"They had no clothes, they were very pale and not stopped to mourn," says a woman who claims to have seen the family newcomer.

After their arrival to people, the peasant had barely four days in his power to Emmanuel, because after its entry into the local hospital was sent to San Jose del Guaviare, June 15, 2005. There, a judge of the family was removed.

Tovar told Gomez that being in a hospital in San Jose del Guaviare, a man who identified himself as a member of the seventh front of the FARC threatened him and told him that would happen as a family to get the baby's medical center.

Then he was when he said to be the uncle grandfather of the child, who is called John David Gomez Tapiero.

He also claimed that his mother was Martha Gomez Tapiero, 22, and that she had disappeared eight months ago. In his statement, Gomez agreed that Tovar had invented the name of the alleged mother on the basis of a niece.

This was the moment when the FARC lost track of Emmanuel.

Four months later returned to call Gomez Tovar to ask about Emmanuel and he lied to them saying that I had a sister in Bogota, "he was doing all the treatment, including, I called her every fortnight (.. .) but never told me 'you need silver' (...) ever desentendidos them, "recounted.

Three months ago the commander 'Jerome' told him he needed to speak with him about the child and threatened his entire family if not given reason for the baby.

In mid-December, the threats were more direct, ordered to return the child and gave an ultimatum until December 30 to return it.

In the midst of his despair, Gomez Tovar went to the public prosecutor's office and not heard, as recounts, "because there was no longer care." And in the Sijín him indicated that they did not receive complaints.

His departure was call a friend who contacted the Ombudsman of San José del Guaviare and the Personero of The Return, who helped the authorities to provide him security.

Then came his transfer and that of his family to Bogota.

'On the night calls his mother'

At a press conference on 31 December last year, President Alvaro Uribe and the High Commissioner for Peace, Luis Carlos Restrepo, told what happened while the child was cared for by the authorities.

John David, as it was known at that time, left the hospital on January 27, 2005. The next day I joined the Family Welfare taking into account the report undertaken by the social worker of the Regional Hospital of San José del Guaviare.

"According to the diagnosis of abuse, neglect and abandonment of a minor. What kept locked, and not only gave him to eat or drink," then the officer reported.

The doctors added that concept Emmanuel showed that malnutrition, malaria, acute diarrheal disease, leishmaniasis, fractured humerus and neglect.

On July 26, 2005 issued the resolution to order the dangerous situation of the child and the next day was approved his transfer to Bogota, a foster home Family Welfare.

On October 31 of that year he practiced surgery at the Institute of Orthopedics Child Roosevelt to correct the fracture in the left humerus.

And under the care of a surrogate mother has been taken into account the behaviour of the child: "A child is a good appetite, tolerated all foods, usually bañarlo once a day, enjoys the contact with water overnight often wake up call to mom and return to rest. "

Despite the fact that the child is alert, pronouncing some words like 'Mom' and syllables loose, which is active attitude and exploration of the environment around him, introduced in its development psychomotor retardation.

At present, "the child is in good health, with a psychosocial development suited to their age, medical and nutritional assessments in accordance with their development process."

The press conference Uribe Restrepo and the leadership of the Armed Forces, on the last day of 2007, marked the end of three days during which the Red Cross and international delegates, led by Hugo Chavez, waited in Colombia, successful, the coordinates of FARC to rescue the three hostages.

Now, with confirmation that the DNA of the child is compatible with that of the Rojas family and the release of FARC accepting that it is today, Sunday Emmanuel, who has three years, five months and 17 days, what remains is that the child is with their families, which could happen in the next two weeks.

Research watermark

On 28 December CTI received the recording of a call made to the Gaula, in which a man warned that a child of San José del Guaviare was to be taken illegally ICBF in Bogota. John David was located and came a second call that related to the case of Emmanuel: that it would not be handed over because he was in the hands of the ICBF. The prosecutor Mario Iguarán, and the head of CTI, Marilu Mendez took the case and told him to President Uribe. They began a rigorous judicial inquiry.

15 days to be a Red

In two weeks of Clara Rojas, grandmother of little Emmanuel, could have temporary custody of the child and thus to put an end to the long wait to know his grandson.

Elvira Forero, director of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF), stated that the procedure for Emmanuel stay with Rojas is "simple and will be brought forward from next week" with the real family of the child. "We are going to sit down to work with Ms Clara to begin the process of psychosocial development," he says.

The official added that Emmanuel is a child "happy, sweet and loving" and that because of their young age still not aware of what has happened. The site where the child was not revealed and his image and physical characteristics are known to the country prior permission of the Rojas family.

The issue of civil registration is necessary to bring an action before a juvenile judge. Soon, Emmanuel adopt the surname Rojas.

With reportage of John C. Alfonso Moreno, special envoy to The Return (Guaviare)

http://www.eltiempo.com/politica/2008-01-06/ARTICULO-WEB-NOTA_INTERIOR-3909942.html

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