Did a U.S. soldier rape a 12-year-old Colombian girl? Her mother fights to be heard

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Did a U.S. soldier rape a 12-year-old Colombian girl? Her mother fights to be heard

by Manuel Rueda
April 9, 2015

MEDELLIN, Colombia — A woman who says her 12-year-old daughter was raped by an American soldier in Colombia is asking President Obama to not let her case “disappear” after the U.S. Army dismissed her claims.

Olga Castillo has been struggling for years to convince Colombian and American officials to prosecute U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Coen and contractor Cesar Ruiz for sexually assaulting her daughter. Castillo claims the two men drugged the girl in a nightclub in August 2007 then smuggled her inside a military base in Melgar, Colombia.

In an interview on Tuesday, Castillo lashed out at U.S. Army spokesman Chris Grey who told USA Today last week that military investigators had travelled to Colombia and looked into her daughter’s case but concluded the allegations are “unfounded.”

“I feel very hurt,” Castillo told Fusion. “I don’t understand why this man says this when there is proof from forensic scientists that my daughter was raped.”

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