Overview
- The Tribunal Oral Federal de Corrientes led a more-than-six-hour site inspection that moved from the child’s grandmother’s house to the El Algarrobal orange grove, a local hotel, and the mudflat where a shoe was found.
- Canine handlers reported dogs picked up Loan’s scent at a nearby abandoned structure and then lost it within a few meters, which they said fits a scenario in which someone lifted the child.
- After the judges first hesitated to go due to distance, prosecutors pressed to visit the mudflat more than three kilometers away to review where an allegedly planted shoe was recovered from the clay.
- The oral, public trial is scheduled for June 16 with seven defendants charged with abduction and concealment who face potential sentences of up to 15 years.
- A separate group of ten is accused of obstructing the probe, one defendant missed the inspection due to transfer problems, and judges admonished the ex-commissioner’s lawyer after clashes with prosecutors.