アマゾンから生還の長女に性的虐待か、継父を訴追　コロンビア

【ボゴタＡＦＰ＝時事】南米コロンビアの検察当局は１２日、アマゾンの密林で小型飛行機の墜落事故後４０日ぶりに発見された先住民のきょうだい４人の父親について、継娘に対する性的虐待容疑で訴追したと発表した。（写真は身柄を拘束された、アマゾンから生還した子ども４人の父親、マヌエル・ラノケ容疑者。コロンビア・ボゴタで）
　小型機の墜落事故では、母親を含め、大人の同乗者３人は全員死亡。長女のレスリーさん（１３）は、ジャングルのことや、ヘビやジャガーといった野生動物、武装ゲリラなどについて熟知しており、その知恵のおかげで生き延びたとされている。
　子どもたちは救出後、１か月間入院。その後、保護していた家族福祉当局が、レスリーさんが性的虐待を受けていた疑いがあるとして検察に通報した。
　検察当局は、下の２人の子の父親であるマヌエル・ラノケ容疑者を１１日に逮捕。レスリーさんを１０歳の時から虐待していたとしている。容疑は否認しているという。
　一家が住んでいた集落の首長も６月末に地元テレビ局に対し、ラノケ容疑者がレスリーさんを虐待した「兆候があった」と語っていた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/08/15-17:35）

The father of two of the four Indigenous children who survived for 40 days in the Amazon has been charged with sexually abusing his stepdaughter, Colombian prosecutors announced.
The siblings were the only survivors after their plane crashed in the jungle in May, killing all three adults onboard, including their mother.
During judicial proceedings on Saturday, the Colombian Prosecutor's Office accused Manuel Ranoque of abusing his stepdaughter Lesly since she was 10 years old.
Lesly, now 13, was credited with keeping her siblings alive during their five-week ordeal using her deep knowledge of the jungle and its many dangers -- including snakes, predatory animals and armed criminal groups.
The children, members of the Huitoto Indigenous group, managed to subsist on a package of cassava flour they found on the plane and wild fruits.
Ranoque, who was arrested Friday and denies the charges, is to remain in custody, prosecutors said.
He participated in the massive search operation to track down Lesly, nine-year-old Soleiny, five-year-old Tien Noriel, and Cristin, who is one.
After the children were miraculously discovered about five kilometers (three miles) from the crash site, a custody battle ensued between their maternal grandparents and Ranoque, who is the biological father of the two younger siblings.
The children spent a month recovering in hospital and were then placed in the custody of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute, which detected the possible sexual abuse and informed prosecutors.
William Castro, the governor of the Indigenous village where the family lived, told a local television station at the end of June that there were indications that Ranoque had abused Lesly.