Name of Chosen Criminal: Daniel Camargo Barbosa

Name of Chosen Criminal: Daniel Camargo Barbosa

“Chanquito Sadist” “Beast of the Mangroves”

Early Background:

·  Mother died when Daniel was a little boy

·  Father was emotionally distant

·  Born and raised in Colombia

·  Raised by an abusive stepmother.

·  Attended a regular high school when growing up

·  Step mother punished him by dressing him in women’s clothing to embarrass him in front of his friends

·  Married a women named Alcira

·  Had two children with Alcria.

·  Fell in love with a different women, Esperanza, whom he planned on marrying until he found out she was not a virgin.

Crimes Accused on Committing:

·  First arrested in Bogota (May 24, 1958)

·  Made an agreement with Esperanza that he would stay with her if she helped him to find virgin girls to have sex with

·  Esperanza and Camargo would lure young girls into an apartment and drug them with sodium seconal sleeping pills. (Five rapes were committed until the fifth girl turned Esperanza and Camargo in sending them both to jail for sexual assault in Colombia on April 10, 1964 for eight years

·  In 1973 Camargo was arrest in Brazil for being undocumented and was deported

·  Once returned to Colombia, he began working as a street vendor selling TV monitors. He raped and murdered a nine-year-old girl. This was his first assault involving murder.

·  Arrested on May 3, 1974 in Barranquilla, Colombia for the believed rape and killing over 80 girls. Sentenced to 30 years in prison but later on reduced to 25 years on December 24, 1977 in Gorgona, Colombia.

·  1984 Camargo escaped Gorgona prison in a boat. Authorities thought he died in heavy rapids and got eaten at sea. Camargo successfully and safely made it to Ecuador on December 1984.

·  From 1984 to 1986 Carmago committed a series of at least 54 rapes and murders in Guayaquil

·  Camargo was arrested by two policemen in Quito on 26 February 1986 only a few minutes after he had murdered a 9-year-old girl named Elizabeth.

·  Daniel Camargo calmly confessed to killing 71 girls in Ecuador since escaping from the Colombian prison. While he told the Ecuadorean authorities of the locations of the bodies and how the sadistic crimes were committed, he showed no feelings of remorse. After raping his victims, he had hacked, slashed and crushed the girls with a machete. He gave a cynical explanation for choosing children. He wanted virgins "because they cried"; this apparently gave him greater satisfaction.

·  Camargo was convicted in 1989 and sentenced to 16 years in prison, the maximum sentence available in Ecuador.

Sodium Seconal Sleeping Pills- Secobarbital is in a group of drugs called barbiturates (bar-BIT-chur-ates). Secobarbital slows the activity of your brain and nervous system.

Sexual Assault- Conduct of a sexual or indecent nature toward another person that is accompanied by actual or threatened physical force or that induces fear, shame, or mental suffering

Undocumented- Not having the needed documents, as for permission to live or work in a foreign country.

Murder- The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice.

Rape- The crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse.

Sadistic Crimes- A sexual sadist is someone who has established an enduring pattern of sexual arousal in response to sadistic imager

y. Sexual gratification is obtained from torture involving excessive mental and physical means.

Death:

·  It was reported that in November 1994, he was murdered in prison by Luis Masache Narvaez, the cousin of one of his victims.

Quotes:

·  “I like hurting people.”

Theory:

·  The theory Daniel Camargo Barbosa falls under is the labeling theory. He grew up being labeled as a “bad kid.” He didn’t defy that label, he let it define him. The labeling theory is an idea that society has labeled them as a deviant, therefor they fall under that label. As a child, Barbosa grew up with a bad life. His mother died at a young age, and his father was emotionally distant. Peers around Barbosa pictured his life as a failure. Unfortunately, people who accept the labeling of others whether it be correct or incorrect have a difficult time changing their opinions of the labeled person.

·  The labeling theory began in the mid- to late- 1950s with the work of Becker and Lemert. Instead of looking at why social groups commit crime, the labeling theory asks why some people commit deviant actions while others do not. The labeling theory is intrigued by the effects of individuals labeling others. The labeling theorist note that most people commit crimes in the times of their lives when others turn their backs on them. When someone has been labeled as a deviant or criminal, the label follow and haunt them for the rest of their life.

Deterrence:

·  If my criminal was still alive today, I believe he would need rehabilitation. Barbosa was emotionally sick. He had many mental disabilities that could have let him down a dark path. He had something wrong in his head that let him believe his actions were moral. He said he liked the way “virgins would scream” when he would rape them. I would recommend intense counseling, medication, and many hours of separation from the society.