Thursday, June 18, 2026 - The American tourist who was picked up and almost lynched for allegedly s£xually abusing a boy on a balcony in Bogotá, Colombia, was reportedly "saving" the boy from choking, new report claims.
According to an updated report, the man was giving his
adopted son the Heimlich manoeuvre. However, he was mistaken for abusing the
child by an angry mob.
A video taken by a woman in northern Bogota appeared to show
the Texas man holding a child on his balcony on Saturday, June 13.
In the viral clip, the woman screams out at him "He’s
abusing the child, let him go!"
Several others who witnessed this screamed for the
police.
The man looks out at the people shouting and then ushers the
child inside.
He was quickly surrounded by an angry mob trying to break
into the apartment complex.
Protests formed outside the tower’s lobby so he couldn’t
flee before authorities arrived.
Police were called and arrested him on suspicion of child
abuse, escorting him through the baying crowds angered by child s£x tourism
abuses in the country.
A video shared online showed police escorting the tourist
out of his Airbnb accommodation.
The man, a 36-year-old, was initially accused of abusing a
7-year-old boy.
But it was later revealed that the Texan had, in fact, been trying to stop his
adopted son from choking to d£ath on food.
President Gustavo Petro said: "I must notify Colombian
society because my commitment is to the truth, that the American citizen of
Texan origin, captured in an apartment in northern Bogotá, apparently did not
violate any of his adopted children in Colombia.
"He took him out to the balcony due to a clog from
eating the food poorly. The images deceived the Colombians who went en masse to
defend the child. Now we have indeed made victims of boys and girls. If these
indications of the facts are confirmed, justice must grant him all his rights
as a human being."
Three children were found by authorities when they entered
the suspect’s apartment and were taken to a medical centre to be evaluated,
Mayor Carlos Galan said in a post on X.
Colombia’s state agency for child protection confirmed that the three children
are now in its care.
The President said the children had now been made victims following the actions
of the crowd.
He also warned that AI had riled up crowds and that Colombia
would be vulnerable to manipulation from foreign powers, especially during
elections.
Invoking Simon Bolivar, he added: "A good lesson in
reality for those of us who can easily be collectively deceived by images that
do not match reality, and that is precisely what the entire Colombian society
lives through, bombarded by companies with artificial intelligence
"Here they transformed, as it seems to be the same case
of the supposedly p@edophile American, reality into virtuality.
"Massive, collective deception through manipulation of
consciousness. Colombians are exposed, like the whole world, to computer
manipulation, and it is being fully used in these elections in Colombia.
"They want to dumb us down through artificial
intelligence on information channels.
"I believe we have transformed into a p@edophile,
someone who is not."
An official report from the prosecutor’s office determined
"there had been no s£xual abuse and no physical violence," and
"no evidence indicating criminal conduct," according to the Colombian
news outlet Noticias Caracol.
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