The Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior, Gabriela Valverde, recognized a series of procedural errors that the portfolio had in the case of Jonathan Correathe teenager of 15 years what was beaten to death by his father last March.
On the one hand, the latest complaint by domestic violence against adolescents —warned by the UTU he attended— entered incorrectly (which prevented his rapid passage to a specialized police station) and, on the other, there was lack of case supervision and one incorrect communication to INAU.
The ministry began an internal investigation into this case, Valverde said in the Population Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, which she attended as interim minister and convened by Colorado deputy Felipe Schipani.
As a result, there are five officials against whom a summary will be initiated, the deputy executive director of the Police, Robert Taroco, informed the commission, according to the stenographic version to which he accessed. The Observer.
“Errors and omissions were detectedalso lack of supervision which, unfortunately, ended with the disposition of a summary: there is five officers who are going to start the administrative procedure“, said.
Valverde, for his part, reviewed in the commission the domestic violence record that went through the teenager’s family.
The first complaint of violence had been filed in 2018, although on that occasion the person investigated was the sister of Jonathan’s father, that is, an aunt of the teenager.
But in 2023 there was a new complaint and also in 2024. For the latter, Justice prohibited the father from approaching or communicating with the teenager’s mother. But nothing was dictated regarding Jonathan.
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In November 2025However, a new complaint was registered. This time, it was UTU which the teenager attended, which alerted by the bruises and wounds he had. When asked, He said that he had fallen in a field where he was playing soccer and that he had hit the goalwhen he tried to save a goal.
His mother gave another version. And the UTU, alerted by this situation, filed a complaint at the 16th Police Station.
That complaint, however, was poorly admitted to the police station and had like the only one investigated was the teenager’s mother.
Regarding the classification, the complaint was entered “incorrectly”—as Valverde stressed in the commission—because instead of being titled as a case of domestic violence, it was written: “Situation investigation. Disabled minor”.
“The first thing we detect here is a typification failure. If it had been domestic violence, would have gone through a process very different from what is an investigation of the situation”, acknowledged the undersecretary.
And he also assured that there was a “lack of communication to INAU“, despite the fact that the specialized court that intervened after the complaint ordered the agency to intervene.
Given the error when filing the complaint, Valverde pointed to the “lack” of “hierarchical supervision on the part of the commissioner in charge of the unit” who acted in this case, that is, the 16th Police Station.
