Rape: Angry Mob Beats Man To Death
A man has been beaten to death by an angry mob for raping a pregnant woman and a 4-year-old child.
The incident which happened in Colombia hit media weaves after a recording of went viral. The gruesome scene was filmed in the municipality of Soledad, in the northern Colombian department of Atlantico.
According to local media, the man, nicknamed ‘Boca de Perro‘ (Dog mouth), was an alleged serial rapist, who was accused of raping at least four victims, including a four-year-old girl and a pregnant woman.
In the shocking video below, the suspected rapist is seen already on the ground in a pool of blood. When he starts to move and suddenly gets up, locals started shouting: ‘He’s still alive.’
Soon after two Police officers arrive at the scene to rescue the man from the angry mob, shots were fired into the air to get the mob to back off, but they couldn’t stop the crowd from continually attacking him with rocks and metal rods.
Local media also reported that the two officers had to call another patrol car to finally stop the angry mob.
After managing to get the alleged rapist to a nearby hospital, he died from multiple head traumas.
Before the violent attack took place, it was heard that a 17-year-old girl had told family members that the man had just raped her in a rural mountain area.
According to the mother of the teenage girl, ‘He warned her not to tell anyone because he knew she had two brothers and where they lived. He said if she ratted him out he would kill us all.’
The mother also revealed that the rapist did not use a condom and he smoked cannabis and snorted cocaine as he abused her daughter.
Locals also said they were fed up with the inaction of authorities and decided to to take matters into their own hands after series of reports about the man, who hides in the mountains, where he had a den set up with a mattress on the floor and girls’ clothes strewn around.
According to some victims, they were intercepted as they walked through a rural area, threatened with a knife and dragged by the hair to his mountain lair.
A 23-year-old Venezuelan woman who accused ‘Dog Man’ of rape, says he ‘raped her from behind’. When she went to the police she said they would not register her complaint because of her nationality.
In a statement by a family member of the lynched man, he described him as a peasant who had arrived in the city only a few days ago. He said: ‘He didn’t deserve to die like that, it’s inhuman, not even for an animal, even if the accusations are true.’
