Every day they disappear between three and 5 persons

First appeared in Costa Rica and it was returned to Santo Domingo with the timely management of the authorities of that country, and the timely presence of a Costa Rican Consul.

The second, only seven months later, disappeared from an official Dominican Republic North unit, and this time never again turned to see, despite the tireless effort that has made his mother.

, aged 8, Dominican, not was declared missing in the days following March 4 2011 because his mother always knew who took him: the father of the child, Marco Streit (54 years), which that day was with him in the regime of supervised visitation that had been agreed on in the Fiscal Procurator of children and adolescents of Puerto Plata, after what happened in Costa Rica. They were like p.m. 4: 00.

After taking him to San Jose, Streit was imprisoned three and half months. The mother of the child, Mary u000aVirginia Dorrejo (41 years), thought that he had learned and that supervised visitation would be one sufficient guarantee to be quiet. It did not, the father was with Dorian, and now awaits news of his son and a second operation for gunshot wounds he received in a bombing suspect.

"Have done everything humanly possible to rescue my son." Me I have communicated with the highest authorities of the nation; "I traveled to different places inside and outside the country, but has been unsuccessful," said Dorrejo to LISTÍN DIARIO.

What happened to Dorian, in one way or another, often happens in Dominican Republic, where annually between three and five people are declared missing every day, and only three back healthy and saved according to police statistics.

Is about teens who usually flee their homes with any partner or another family member, who are abducted or who are victims of sexual abuse. But there is also u000aother situations that police considered to establish the whereabouts of missing persons, according to the Commander of the Department of investigations of missing persons of the national police, Colonel Rafael Herrera Valenzuela.

"Many of the causes for which a person disappears having to do with family problems and conduct, with mental disorders, debts, escapes and assaults or accidents or any other event not manageable by the individual not allowed him an instant communication with their families", said Herrera to LISTÍN DIARIO.

Procedure
in any case, the official said that the procedure set up there to wait 48 hours before a person may be registered as missing in the annals of the police, which from that moment begins a thorough process to establish the whereabouts of the possible victim.

The police requested a recent photo of the individual and that phone number u000aused, carried out interrogations, "declines" (recognition) in the places where he was seen for the last time, and requested information to the Directorate General of migration, forensic pathology and all directions of research in the country.

Search has no time limit and continues until the victim is alive or dead.

Missing
in 2011, just to give some examples, missing, Juan de la Cruz, aged 21, and Alvaro were declared, his cousin, in the seedlings of Cienfuegos, Santiago, 11 January; and Daniela Castillo Ortega, 20 years in the capital, on December 28.

The first and the last one year which is also corroborated cases of an rusa-chilena, Paloma Parrini Canó, of 24 years, whose body was found January 25, 2011 on a beach in chigger, four days after having been declared defunct; Mercedes Mejia, 24-year-old sick mental according to the u000aauthorities, who was found alive on 11 March with her daughter Yanet, of 4 years in a dustbin of Palenque, San Cristóbal, five days after having been seen in La Caleta, Boca Chica; or that of Andrés Leonardo, 53-year-old, disappeared in Viet Nam of the mine and found dehydrated near El Seibo. He said that he was assaulted by men dressed as policemen.

"Find a possibly missing person is easily taken eight months, and everything will depend on the resources of the person concerned," he told LISTÍN DIARIO Fernando Castillo, a private detective with 21 years of experience, director of operations of Delta research consultation and advisory services.

Castle agrees with the director of missing persons from the Police Department when noted that generally speaking, missing persons are individuals with problems psychiatric, young people who decide to flee with his partner somewhere else and even authors of auto-secuestros.

"A year" u000aat least three or four people reported cases of missing persons can come. "Have found them, even dead", said the expert.

250 thousand pesos
the cost of the search for missing persons cases, as the private investigator, will depend on the amount of information that is issued and the time that the individual has disappeared, but in general terms, a location about 45 days to two months could cost up to 250 thousand pesos.

"That period give a coherent response to the families", said detective.

The private research process involves the placement of posters, search for information through other persons and the activation of its contacts with other agencies for international, many of them located in Haiti and other countries of Europe and Latin America.

"Many disappearances then turn out to be abductions and auto-secuestros", said Castillo.

The mother of Dorian Streit u000aDorrejo, a lawyer by profession, applied the same procedures to try to establish the whereabouts of her son.

But the legal situation of minors does not correspond to the of "missing", but to the of "illicit international transfer of a minor", for what should be a warrant of search and capture international Yes was released by Interpol-Dr, but with false data of the father and the child, according to the complaint of the mother.

The country of Interpol Office told daily LISTÍN which carried out the search in all countries where suspected Streit might be, but it was not found.

Also pointed out that the international arrest warrant is still active.

Marco Aurelio Giuseppe Streit, Swiss, reached Dominican Republic in the mid 1990s as a tourist and decided to stay. Dorrejo met him in the year 2000, when he was a restaurant next to the Office of lawyers he worked.

The first time he went with u000aDorian, spent the weekend together.

Was on August 11, 2010 when Dorrejo got a call from Joanne Leigh, general consul of Costa Rica in Dominican Republic, to confirm whether she was the mother of the child and whether had given a permit as he was in San Jose, about to be sent to an orphanage. The father had been arrested by the immigration authorities by presenting false Costa Rican passports.

"I contacted the Dominican Ambassador in Costa Rica, doña Adonaida Medina, who told me that she had already been informed of the case and that it was working on it." "The Costa Rican authorities took the decision to send the boy to our country in the next flight, guarded by a Costa Rican migration agent," commented Dorrejo.

The arrival of Dorian and Streit, the mother filed a complaint and an examining magistrate of the permanent attention of the Court of first instance of Puerto Plata, it issued u000aa warrant of arrest against the father of the child.

Back
Dorian returned with her mother in less than eight hours and Leigh was the sole "authority that was presented at the airport to verify delivery and verify the safeguarding of minors".

Streit was arrested upon arrival, was released three months and a half in prison and continued contact with the child. Dorrejo met with the director of migration, then Siegfried wall Pérez, who requested an investigation into the conditions that his son left the country. Newly aware.

Then she knew that two persons were cancelled by the case, but Dorrejo said that they were not brought to justice.

The Office Migration told directory journal that has knowledge of the case, but said that there is currently no record of entry or departure from the country that might give the whereabouts of Streit or child.

Also noted that vigilance is maintained u000aconstant of the system to proceed as provided for in the law.

In cases such as Dorian, retained by its parent, the law No. 136-03 (who created the code for the system of protection and fundamental rights of children and adolescents), makes them it an "illicit retention" and "illicit minor transfer", not as a kidnapping, is Yes it is governed by the Penal Code, in its articles 355 et seq..

In addition, the Civil Code, articles 115 and 120, provides figure of "missing persons", declared so only by a court, and after expiry of a period of 4 years.

But the law can not heal all the pain that a mother feels for the absence of his son.

"The disappearances of loved ones can lead to a complicated situation of mourning, there are many questions that people ask: is the person alive?" In the case of disappearances sudden without leaving any sign people can u000a"feeling 'abandoned', in shock that can last several months," he explained to LISTÍN DIARIO pink Dr. Frank Brea, a leading clinical psychologist, expert in grief therapy.

Counseling
pitch stated that individuals and their families facing this situation will need psychological and in some cases, help aid parallel for a psychiatrist, if the person complains of not being able to sleep, or sleeping in excess, feeding problems, apathy towards life and ideas to suicide.

"What people will live in these circumstances is a process of mourning, as we know the grief is a normal demonstration in any situation of loss." Its complexity, or possible pathology, will depend on many individual variables: mental health of the individual, concurrence of other crises, degree of relationship with the person who is lost... ", added pitch.

Out of the personal management of the complaint in the u000aPolice or of the performance of private investigator, few things can be done to establish the whereabouts of someone, except for actions such as the campaign waged by the company distributor of electricity of the East (EdeEste), in August of last year, which has since published on the back of your invoices the names and photos of missing persons to cooperate with its location.

"The person must have more than three months has disappeared." "We do this to make sure that there are real cases", said the company to LISTÍN DIARIO.

This is the case of Dorian.

"So far no one has been responsible for the disappearance of my son, or has suspended the staff who worked on this institution that day, and who was responsible for the custody," says Maria Dorrejo, the mother of the child missing for almost a year.

Dorrejo remembers that day occurred in the fiscal Procurator for children and adolescents of u000aPuerto Plata, as soon reported that the child was not there.

When he arrived, he was told the Prosecutor to custody of the tribunal and responsible for supervising the visit of the father of Dorian, went home to change pants and security officer assigned that day was not reported to work.

Only left them in the company of a Secretary.

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The campaign of EDESTE
EdeEste last year launched a campaign to help locate missing persons, to consider that more than 700,000 invoices distributed every month is a good channel for such purposes. The company believes that information is read by the client and by an average of two persons, which can reach more than 2 million people.

EdeEste receives almost daily reports of missing persons, but the cases that are published must complete certain requirements.

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The testimony of A family
< font u000acolor = "# 808080" > other case ELIEZER SANTANA

Portrait of a couple with their baby, placed in a glass shelf, is the first thing you see when passing the main gate, as if they were placed there to welcome.

"Look there, that's it" says LISTÍN DIARIO Antonia Martínez, 61 years, mother of Eliezer Santana Martinez, 31, who left his house on Sunday 23 October of last year, at around 5: 00 p.m., and are still not hearing from.

Eliezer Santana Martinez, electronic engineer graduated magna cum laude from the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), resided with his wife, Herlin Montero and his son for three years in Alma Rosa from Santo Domingo this.

Santana was known to be a conservative, working and intelligent person.

Was "old man" of a congregation of Jehovah's witnesses, degree which is responsible for the supervision of the brothers. October 17 u000alast year, the young professional began working on a telecommunications company as technology manager, but lasted only five days.

"Was like every Sunday." We got up to go to the meeting of Jehovah's witnesses. "We end up preaching at the 1: 20 in the afternoon," said his wife.

Montero told directory that after arriving home, Santana was prepared by the food and went to bed. Later received a call from someone that warned him that he had to occur in the company where he worked.

He insisted that he had to go, despite the fact that she did not agree.

Montero added that the only thing that he has heard that call was regarding a possible meeting to be collected somewhere.

Santana left and minutes later she dicidió call it to your cell phone, but not answered. He opened the curtain and the last thing he saw was the parking lot of his house he went talking on the phone. It was the last u000atime.

"I just stick to what police us says..." "There is no justification for what happened," said Benjamin Santana, 60-year-old, father of the missing person, for whom the hardest thing so far has been having to identify so many corpses.

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