The first time she tried to kidnap a three-year-old boy who was outside a bar in Santa Cruz de Tenerife: she grabbed him forcefully and ran away, but a waiter saw her and gave the warning. An uncle of the minor ran to catch up with them and freed him while the woman held the child tightly and spit and insulted the man. The second time she grabbed a boy who was going with her mother and another brother through the bus station. “Keep my face,” she told her mother. Now, the woman has accepted a four-year prison sentence after admitting before the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Court that she tried to kidnap two children in the Tenerife capital.

For these charges, he initially faced a possible sentence of six years in prison. The five months that the woman has spent in preventive detention will be subtracted from the sentence.

The prosecutor said during the session that the sentence was adjusted to the seriousness of the facts and the danger and insecurity that the convicted person caused when she committed the crimes, although he wanted to convey peace of mind to citizens by remembering that the police “acted immediately and that his entry into provisional prison was also ordered.”

Once he is released, he will not be able to approach any of the minors or communicate with them for five years.

In the reduction of the sentence request, it was taken into account, according to the prosecutor, that no damage was caused and that the kidnappings did not exceed the level of attempted. The convicted woman indicated that she was insolvent and she could not pay the compensation of 2,000 euros.

In the case of the boy from the bar, local Santa Cruz police officers appeared at the scene and observed how the woman tried to flee the scene and were able to intercept and arrest her. After her incident at the interchange, she was also subsequently detained and brought to justice and it was decided to send her to the Mental Health Unit of the University Hospital for her psychological evaluation.

The result is that the woman appeared conscious, oriented and calm, without giving any signs that she was intoxicated by any substance and did not present any amnesia deficit.

No delusional ideas, ideas of death or suicide were detected and in fact the examination concluded that he retains his judgment of reality but suffers from a borderline personality disorder of emotional instability. This illness, according to the doctors, does not prevent him from knowing the evil of his actions and despite this from acting as he supposedly did.

That same day she was discharged and a week later the third attempt was repeated, although no charges were filed in this case. “The consequence is that the minors suffered a great scare with what happened and cyclically relive the fear of this traumatic situation being repeated,” she noted in the trial on the bus station case.

In any case, given the “criminal danger and seriousness of the facts,” the judge ordered his entry into provisional prison as an urgent precautionary measure, a situation in which he finds himself right now.

The woman is of Colombian nationality, remains in an irregular situation in the country and is in fact the subject of an expulsion order.