Public transport in Bogotá is not a safe place for women.
In the last week, two minors have reported being sexually abused in TransMilenio.
So far in 2022, 5,743 sexual crimes have been registered in the capital, according to the Bogotá Security Secretariat.
In a video broadcast on social networks, a 17-year-old minor is heard denouncing that on her way to meet her friends, last Saturday a man got out behind her at La Castellana station, in the north of the capital. , and threatens her with a knife.
Initially, he asks her to hand over everything he is carrying.
“He started touching me to get my cell phone.
I gave her the bag and everything I had, but she wouldn't let me go, ”says the woman.
The minor remembers that the man says obscene things in her ear and she goes into shock: "I was trying to react, but I was scared to death."
She claims that the man pulls down her pants and forces her to perform oral sex on him while he touches her.
Although she tries to push him away from her, she doesn't have enough strength.
Two men who were passing by made the abuser run away and help her call her friends.
The minor never saw a police officer or a guard who could help her.
The woman went to report the facts to the police and received as a response that, because she was a minor, she should go to another office, where they handled cases of sexual abuse of minors.
She complied with her instructions and in the second place they told her that they could not attend to her because her aggressor was of legal age, it was after five in the afternoon and, since her case was not urgent, she had to expect.
After failing to file a formal complaint, she called the TransMilenio Police hotline.
“We called and she is off duty.
I want to make this case public because I don't want this to happen to another woman again,” she says in the video.
After the complaint was known on social networks, this Thursday the Attorney General's Office announced that it had arranged for two prosecutors specialized in sexual crimes to investigate the case together with teams from the Technical Investigation Corps and the Police Sijín.
For its part, TransMilenio assured that it is conducting internal investigations and rejects any conduct that generates injuries to the physical, psychological and sexual integrity of women.
But just this Thursday it happened again.
Another young woman denounces that she got on the Transmilenio, like every day, to go to university, when a man approached her with a knife and threatened to harm her if she did not perform oral sex on him: "If she screams, I'll kill her", The victim remembers what the aggressor told her, that he fled when he saw many people approaching.
When the woman arrived at the university, she met her friends, told them what had happened and asked them to accompany her to file a complaint.
However, at the police station in the area they told him that since no one had been captured, they could not do anything.
Throughout the week, different feminist groups have called different demonstrations to protest against sexual abuse in the Bogotá public transport system and to demand security from the authorities in the TransMilenio.
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