68 B) PECUNIARY DAMAGES 201. In accordance with the evidence gathered during the various stages of the proceeding and in light of the criteria set forth by this Court in its jurisprudence, the Court will now analyze the claims filed the Inter-American Commission, the representative of the victims and their next of kin, and the State, with the aim of establishing the measures of reparation regarding to pecuniary damages. Pleadings of the Commission 202. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to pay compensation for pecuniary damages, regarding to which it stated the following: a) the next of kin of the victims incurred various expenses as a direct consequence of the facts; these include funerary expenses caused by the death of the victims, transport costs of the parents and of the brothers of the victims to police stations and hospitals to locate the victims, and lost earnings of the parents of the victims, who due to the grieving did not work during the week after the death of their children; b) the expenses specified above amount to US$ 4,230.00 (four thousand two hundred and thirty United States dollars); c) to establish the earnings lost when the alleged victims died, it is necessary to take into account the ages of the victims at the time of their demise, the number of years before they reached the average life expectancy in the State, and an estimate of the salaries paid for the type of work that they would be carrying out; d) Emilio Moisés Gómez Paquiyauri was 14 years old at the time of his death and was in his third year of secondary school; e) Rafael Samuel Gómez Paquiyauri was 17 years old at the time of his death, had completed his secondary education the previous year, planned to apply to the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, and worked for a ship boiler firm. Regarding to this job, the petitioners stated that, if he had continued, Rafael Samuel Gómez Paquiyauri would have received an annual income equivalent to approximately US$ 7,480.00 (seven thousand four hundred and eighty United States dollars); f) both Emilio Moisés and Rafael Samuel Gómez Paquiyauri intended to become professionals, and they had great possibilities of entering the university, as their siblings did; and g) an adequate compensation for lost earnings must be paid to the parents of the alleged victims, after hearing the representative of the victims and their next of kin. Pleadings of the representative of the victims and their next of kin 203. The representative of the victims and their next of kin asked the Court to order the State to redress the pecuniary damages caused, taking into account the following criteria: