He raped, tortured, killed 138 children and was soon released

Inside a high-security prison, geographically isolated in the deserts of Colombia, a man named Luis Garavito is serving his sentence.

Even there, he lives isolated from other inmates, with no contact with the general prison population.

Colombian authorities say the measures were taken for his own protection. They have even advised him to take food and water only from them prison officials and no one else.

The guards describe him as a meek man, who seems to maintain a positive and optimistic attitude towards life.

The prisoner has fallen face down in the study and the latest reports show him even enrolled in a Colombian university. He says he wants to pursue a political career.

After all, he goes out of time and seeks a new beginning in his life. He has political activism in mind. But also the support of abused children.

After all, it is authority for abused children. He has abused more than 300 himself. And this is not a sick joke, but a tragic irony.

In less than a decade, he raped, tortured and killed hundreds of children and young people. Some 138 remembered when he was caught in 1999, but he has not stopped recalling other murders in prison.

Police believe that his victims have exceeded the unthinkable number of 300 people.

And he has been doing everything he can for years to bring to the surface the skeletons with which he has filled the Colombia, bass and the happy families rest at some point…

Luis Alfredo Garavito was born in January 1957 in a house where he came into contact with the evil face of life from the first moment. His alcoholic father beat him, his brothers and their addicted mother, who some reports show working as prostitute.

Worse still, according to some sources, Garavito's father forced little Luis to watch his mother have sex with her clients, offering the child a reward for the perverted appetites of some.

Although how true all this is is not known, in order for an 8-year-old child to run away from home and choose to live on the streets, something very vicious would happen to his father.

The boy eventually joined a juvenile gang that robbed passers-by to survive. At some point he left the life of the margin to move to legality.

He worked as an unskilled laborer in the lengths and breadths of Colombia, going where there was a day job.

It was then that he entered into a relationship with a girl who had a small child. And he seemed to be doing well for the first time in his life, having a stability.

The man with such a difficult start in life would be known as "Monster" (La Bestia). From 1992-1997, Garavito sexually abused, tortured and killed 150-400 boys and teenagers aged 6-16.

For 138 victims were convicted, however, the authorities suspected from the beginning that the number was tragically higher. And he would later remember other victims, many victims, who ended up in exhumations skeletons with the scoop.

The Colombian police said from the first moment that the number is closer to 400 than to 150. And it continues to prove it to this day.

Back in 1992 now, Colombia was plagued by decades of conflict and civil strife. Her battles FARC - (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and the guerrillas of the ELN (National Liberation Army) with the official state had left thousands displaced and homeless.

They had to do it completely alone and among them were many children. Children alone, with their parents killed in battle or missing. No one would understand if they were lost on the streets. And no one understood it after all.

Garavito was virtually free to turn them into targets of his perverted rage. He knew that the little ones were unwanted and he would take full advantage of this for the next 7 years.

And while he probably wouldn't need it, he was particularly careful with his crimes. It was aimed exclusively at street children, homeless, raccoons and orphans, who, following the promise of a plate of food, would follow him everywhere.

When he found his target, he would take him out of the noisy streets of the cities under the same pretext: food or sweets for the little boys, money or work for the older ones.

In fact, when the victim was a teenager, Garavito impersonated him papa, the farmer, the elderly, even the street vendor. And they all needed someone "small" to run errands.

In fact, he was so careful that he never used the same attire a second time in the same place. Not that it would arouse anyone's suspicions, but he had to take every precaution.

When they arrived somewhere isolated, he was free to act. As he has confessed, he always walked a few kilometers with the victim by his side, encouraging him to reveal things about his life. Not because he cared, but because he wanted to tire the victim of hiking. And only then did he strike.

And the "Monster" justified its scary nickname. According to police descriptions, he constantly outdid himself in terms of brutality. The bodies of his victims that were found showed signs of prolonged torture and unspeakable sexual abuse.

Without going into further descriptions, many children were found with their genitals cut and placed in their mouths. Other corpses were headless…

Characteristic of the illegal situation that prevailed in Colombia is the fact that the police would need 5 whole years to understand that something bad was going on in the streets.

Even so, owning one is still beyond the reach of the average person. Only at the end of 1997, when a mass grave was discovered with some of its victims, would a regular police investigation into the disappearance of the children begin.

Next stop was February 1998, when the bodies of two naked boys were found next to each other on a slope in Tunha. A few meters away there was a third corpse. Child again. They all had their hands tied and their necks cut off. A few meters away was the weapon of crime.

Scanning the area for findings, police stumbled upon a note with a handwritten address. He was the home manager of Garavito's partner, with whom they had been in a relationship for years.

The "Monster" was missing from the house when the police visited her, but his girlfriend cooperated completely with the authorities. In a bag with his personal belongings they found photos of small children, a detailed diary of his crimes, and even a serial number of victims.

His search continued for days. Now the police moved in a coordinated manner, looking for places he frequented and addresses of his older homes. They did not release anything until at least April 22, a week after the manhunt was launched against him.

It was then that a local police station in a town caught a suspect for attempted rape. A homeless man saw a man following a 12-year-old child and told him to intervene. He rescued the little one and informed the authorities.

Unbeknownst to him, the police department accidentally had in his hands someone with far more heinous crimes than an attempted rape. The very "Monster" that all the Colombian police were looking for.

His interrogation was undertaken by the central police service and Garavito, now 42, "broke" at some point. He confessed to abusing and killing 147 boys. He did not remember where he had buried them all, but he made several maps for the police.

"This is unprecedented in Colombia," he said prosecutor Alfonso Gomez Mendez told a news conference in October 1999 that the police investigation had lasted 18 months, with child disappearances in at least 11 Colombian states.

According to the prosecution, they had located the bodies of 114 underage boys. According to an Associated Press report, the following month (November 1999) a mass grave was discovered in Pereira with the remains of 25 boys, aged 8-16.

The investigating authorities believed that it was a satanic sect. However, the investigation easily identified Garavito's modus operandi to the tragic victims. It was the tragic end, for Colombia at least.

Because Garavito traveled frequently in the country, for livelihood needs, and had spent some time in Ecuador. The authorities of which would now begin their own investigation into the disappearances of children.

Police located a pair of glasses in one of the makeshift graves. They were specially made for the very rare eye disease that he suffers from serial killer. Without delay, he was convicted of 138 murders. The final number was also of little importance.

The maximum sentence for murder in Colombia is 13 years. Multiplying by 138 (plus a few more for other crimes), the sentence crystallized to 1.853 years and 9 days. The country's penal system, however, stipulates that no one can be left behind bars for more than 40 years.

Garavito even cooperated with the police from the first moment. With his help, so many corpses were identified and some were even identified. He continued to do the same behind bars.

Cooperation with the police reduced his sentence to 22 years. THE release It is indeed destined for 2021. Unless Colombian law is finally enacted which stipulates that crimes against children draw at least 60 years behind bars.

The same law removes from the convict any "judicial privilege". And such is both the national maximum of 40 years and the reduction of his sentence to 22 years because he cooperated with the police.

With the news that the "Monster" is being released next year, Colombian public opinion was disgusted. Legal circles are talking about a flaw in the system, the fact that there are no stricter penalties for serial criminals.

Nobody knows what will happen. It will be seen in a few months…

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