16 and that I have never been able to afford therapy. And the other one wants to study, and I can’t really take that right away from her — I must do something.” Currently, his mother is managing his father’s estate, which consists of a farm and two cars. EXPERT EVIDENCE a) Expert report by Mrs. María Cristina Nunes de Mendonça, lecturer on Legal Medicine at the University of Coimbra, Portugal The expert witness pointed out that, as a result of his arrest, Mr. Wilson Gutiérrez sustained physical injuries that can be grouped in two different kinds: genital injuries and anal injuries. The genital injuries may de described as second-degree burns caused by exposure to heat, specifically by contact with flames. Second-degree burns tipically involve the presence of blisters with liquids inside them and affect the deepest tissues in the skin. As for anal injuries, in the instant case they have been internal injuries in the rectum caused by the introduction of a hard object. The physical sequels in the instant case would have had to be treated properly. Timely treatment was required so that the sequels would not be so evident. In the instant case, the sequels mentioned are permanent. Likewise, there are functional-sexual sequels, described in some of the reports, such as that of September 16, 1996 at the Colombian Forensic Medicine Nacional Institute and the urologic report made in 2000. There is yet another set of sequels, namely psychological sequels, which are clearly set apart in three forensic psychiatry reports made by a group of psychiatrists and psychologists from the Colombian Forensic Medicine Nacional Institute. Three of the descriptions characterize a condition called “post-traumatic stress disorder”. The victim’s character, irritable behavior, a fobic and elusive attitude, and the irreversible nature of such characteristics, are the typical symptoms of such disorder. The forensic medical examinations performed in the instant case have been incomplete. No photographic records of the injuries have been made, and they are extremely important. The examinations have been confined to an external, physical description of the anatomical areas. No examination was made of the anal anatomical injury, which is a very simple one. One of the reports is missing a detailed description of the injuries, which might condition its interpretation, attempt against its results and diminish the significance of these documents in these proceedings. The victim did not receive regular and adequate medical treatment until his imprisonment on September 14, 1994, twenty-one days after the events. The victim does not seem to have received proper treatment, nor was he provided with basic means of personal hygiene so as to prevent the infection he subsequently came to suffer. Protocols and standards have been established to improve the treatment for victims of aggressions like those in the instant case, as the ones in existence