Ms. Castillo Cortes still has to answer for the crimes of false denunciation and concealment, alteration or destruction of evidence.

The case of Sergio Urrego, the young man who took his own life after the school authorities systematically discriminated against him, restricting his rights to education, privacy and free development of his personality, took a new turn on Tuesday. The facts led to criminal proceedings in which the court has issued a verdict of guilty. first conviction for sexual orientation discrimination in Colombian schools.

This time, the 43rd Circuit Criminal Court declared the case closed in favour of Amanda Azucena Castillo Cortés, former rector of the Gimnasio Castillo Campestre school where Sergio studied, for the crime of aggravated discrimination due to the operation of the statute of limitations.

The statute of limitations is a right and guarantee in favour of the accused that establishes that the passage of a certain period of time becomes a cause for the extinction of the criminal action, and therefore the decision adopted by the court was the only viable one. However, given the possible existence of dilatory actions on the part of the defence of Amanda Azucena Castillo Cortés, the court ordered the Sectional Council of the Judiciary to investigate these possible irregularities in the same sentence.

For COLOMBIA DIVERSA, regardless of the decision adopted this Tuesday, it is already established that Sergio David Urrego Reyes was indeed discriminated against on the basis of his sexual orientation by the directors of the Colegio Gimnasio Castillo Campestre, as evidenced by the decisions adopted by the Secretary of Education of Cundinamarca and the Constitutional Court of Colombia.

It should be recalled that in the case of Sergio Urrego, two convictions have already been handed down against Rosalía Ramírez and Ibonne Andrea Cheque, former overseer and former psychologist of the Colegio Gimnasio Castillo Campestre, who agreed to serve as witnesses in the proceedings against Ms. Castillo Cortés for the crimes of False Accusation against a Specified Person and Concealment, Alteration or Destruction of Material Evidence.

Sergio's case has become a landmark and has led to landmark decisions both in the Constitutional Court and in the criminal jurisdiction. It is a case that has set a precedent and has made the country think about the route against discrimination ordered by the law on coexistence in schools. The criminal proceedings against Amanda Azucena Castillo Cortés continue and the message that the Sergio Urrego case leaves us with remains clear: the children and adolescents of the country are not alone and discrimination against them cannot be tolerated; on the contrary, it must be eradicated.