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Related: About this forumRobert Serra had 4 open case files for child sexual abuse
http://www.reportero24.com/2014/10/luisa-ortega-oculta-expedientes-por-violacion-a-menores-de-robert-serra/The grandfather of one of the boys raped died in a confrontation between police and a colectivos after he denounced the abuse. Serra practiced Santeria where the rituals included touching the heads of dead people. 4 cases of child rape but two somehow have disappeared.
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Serra's bodyguard and another were arrested for his murder.
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Robert Serra had 4 open case files for child sexual abuse (Original Post)
Bacchus4.0
Oct 2014
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Thats just stupid, Obama isn't a child molester like Serra was. Good riddance. n/t
Bacchus4.0
Oct 2014
#3
Zorro
(15,740 posts)1. According to one of the Chavista Brainiacs
Serra was an up-and-coming Latin Obama.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)3. Thats just stupid, Obama isn't a child molester like Serra was. Good riddance. n/t
Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)2. An interesting article by The Economist related to Serra's murder
http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2014/10/murder-venezuela
President Maduro has twice vowed to present within hours the conclusions of police investigations which would supposedly vindicate his claim of an opposition plot. But even though two suspects, including one of the dead mans bodyguards, have been arrested, the president has so far failed to fulfil his promise. With most of the media either in government hands or cowed into toeing the party line, crime reporters have been forced to tell the story in 140-character episodes. Thus far, it seems to be a saga of robbery and betrayal by insiders. Criminologists find the modus operandi hard to reconcile with the theory of a political hit. But the government, trailing badly in opinion polls with a crucial parliamentary election coming up next year, may feel the need to rally the troops by playing up the ruthless nature of the enemy.
A further twist to the tale came almost a week after the double murder, when the centre of Caracas was brought to a halt for several hours by a supposed gun-battle between police and what were officially described as gang members wanted for murder. Five of the latter died in the shoot-out, some of them allegedly executed by police. Their relatives and comrades, however, dismissed the accusation that they were crooks. Whatever their crimes may have been, what is clear is that they were members of the euphemistically named collectives , a term now virtually synonymous in Venezuela with groups of civilian gunmen working as enforcers for the government.
A further twist to the tale came almost a week after the double murder, when the centre of Caracas was brought to a halt for several hours by a supposed gun-battle between police and what were officially described as gang members wanted for murder. Five of the latter died in the shoot-out, some of them allegedly executed by police. Their relatives and comrades, however, dismissed the accusation that they were crooks. Whatever their crimes may have been, what is clear is that they were members of the euphemistically named collectives , a term now virtually synonymous in Venezuela with groups of civilian gunmen working as enforcers for the government.