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 -Published: Tuesday, December 10, 2019- Judge orders
pre-trial measures against man suspected
of leaving nephew in Arizona desert
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A judge of the San José Criminal Court has ordered precautionary measures against a priest suspected of smuggling of migrants and abandonment of a minor. That was reported Monday by the Prosecutor's Office of the section on human trafficking and illicit immigrants traffic. The man has the last names of surnamed Brenes-Villalobos. In November a judge had not ordered any type of pre-trial measures after the man's arrest. For that reason, prosecutors said they requested a second hearing to seek the pre-trial measures. With the new order of the judge, the suspect must sign in once a month at the court, surrender his passport and not leave the country. He is prohibited from any communication with the victim. "These measures will be in effect for a period of at least six months," said prosecutors in a statement. In November, judicial agents detained Brenes in Sardinal in Guanacaste as a request of the Prosecutor's Office. Brenes is accused of leaving his nephew, a 6-year-old Costa Rican boy, at the Arizona-Mexico border on June 19, 2018. After the arrest, judicial agents revealed that the man worked as a priest at the Catholic Church of San Jeronimo in the district of Sardinal in Guanacaste. The Catholic Church announced that Brenes was suspended from his position there. According to the Catholic Church headquarter in Tilarán, Guanacaste, due to "this investigation process. In order to ensure the clarification of the truth, it was decided to remove Father Brenes from his occupations as a pastor so he can have all the possible availability for cope with the process,” said Manuel Eugenio Salazar Mora, in a statement addressed to the parishioners of the church. He is the bishop of Tilarán-Liberia. The plight of the Costa Rican boy made headlines in the United States, but the uncle was not identified as a Roman Catholic priest at the time. Judicial agents said the case has been under investigation for nearly a year. The man returned to Costa Rica a day after Border Patrol agents picked up the boy at the border, they said. The Washington Times said that the boy endured 100-degree heat and that he told agents that the uncle had told him that agents would pick him up. The child was trying to join his mother, who also is an illegal immigrant in the United States, the newspaper said at the time. That section of the U.S. border with Mexico is notorious for the ease by which illegal immigrants enter the United States. Just like the boy, many just cross the border and wait for a Border Patrol vehicle because they usually claim refugee status so that they are set free to await a hearing before an immigration judge. The boy crossed south of Lukeville, Arizona. The boy initially went to a government facility in Tucson, Arizona. Judicial agents said that Costa Rican consular workers in the United State managed to deliver the boy to the mother. The case of the uncle presents some interesting jurisdictional problems. Although investigators in Costa Rica have received information from the United States, there is no certainty that the man ever actually was in that country. Presumably, the man left Costa Rica with the boy legally. Costa Rica does not extradite its citizens to other countries to face trial. -------------------- Should Costa Rican authorities authorize the extradition of its citizens to other countries in the case of an indictment process? We would like to know your thoughts on this story. Send your comments to news@amcostarica.com |
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