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The driver of a taxi application, Juan David Cuéllar, who transported Debanhi Escobar on the morning of April 9, the day of his disappearance, denied yesterday that he had sexually harassed her, as accused by the young woman’s father, Mario Escobar.
“I never thought I would be in this situation, I don’t owe anything to anyone and I want everyone to know the truth and more than anything because Mr. (father of Debanhi) makes a serious accusation, accuses me of harassment and at no time did I harass her“, Cuéllar told the newspaper Reforma.
“The man says many things, but he was not there, he does not know the truth”, he added.
Cuéllar, who was interviewed by a local television station, said that Debanhi and her two friends contacted him through the Didi application to pick them up at a house located in St nicolas.
The driver stated that it was a short trip, barely three blocks from the main square of San Nicolás , but, not finding one of her friends, the young women asked her to move them to the area of villas near the FGR facilities in Escobedo.
Before descending, they asked for his telephone number so that he could return them to his home, in a service outside Didi’s regular application and Cuéllar agreed.
The driver indicated that around 4: 00 hours of the 9 April received a message from the women asking her to pick them up, but only Debanhi got into the car.
Her own friends put her in the back back of the vehicle driven by Cuéllar, while they left in another car with some young people they met at the party.
According to Cuéllar, D Ebanhi Escobar was angry with her couple of friends, since they did not want to take her.
The young woman asked the driver for a cable to charge her cell phone , as he moved to the front seat of the taxi.
Cuéllar states that the victim repeatedly refused to provide him with an address for his transfer, so he asked his friends where he lived and they they communicated her address.
Suddenly, Debanhi asked Cuéllar to stop the vehicle, to which the driver refused, so she She asked me to take her to another country house where there was a party.
“I thought that I was going to vomit, at no time did I think that she was going to go down, he gets off and that’s where I take the pictures, I tell his friends that he got off”, according to Reforma.
“I stood for three minutes in case she came back, She regrets it, I don’t know, she never turned around and what I did was continue, I said ‘I can’t do anything’”.
The driver assured that Debanhi was not feeling well.
“The girl was not in her five senses , I can say that from the words, I didn’t string sentences together, I didn’t have a concise conversation.
“I recorded an audio where he spoke things that we had not even talked about, I did not know her, she told me things that did not agree with what we were saying”.
Cuéllar assured that he tried contact Debanhi’s mother, but her friends refused to give her the phone number. Juan David reiterated that his intention was to help her and that he is available to the Attorney General’s Office to collaborate in the investigations.
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