10 44. On March 3 and 4, the Court heard the testimony of the witnesses and the expert opinions of the expert witnesses offered by the representatives of the alleged victim, the Inter-American Commission and the State. The Court will now summarize the significant parts of said statements. a) Testimony of María Dominga Sánchez, mother of the alleged victim She stated that Juan Humberto Sánchez lived in El Salvador, collaborated with the guerrilla forces and was a radio operator for Radio Venceremos. He had two different companions and a daughter with each of them. One of the daughters, Norma –whom she met personally-, was three months old at the time of the facts, and the other girl she was only able to see in photographs. Her son, Juan Humberto Sánchez, returned on July 9, 1992, and this made her very happy. On July 10, 1992, at about 9 p.m., she was at home with her husband and some of their children when 5 soldiers arrived. They searched the house and bound Juan Humberto, then took him away, bound, providing no justification. She stated that at the time her son was detained, she lived in Santo Domingo, Colomoncagua with her husband Juan José Vijil Hernández, and their children Domitila, Florinda, Juan Carlos and Celio. Her other daughters, Rosa Delia and María Milagro, lived nearby. Her husband went with the military and Juan Humberto to Colomoncagua and the latter was released the following day. On July 11, 1992, the military came again during the night, yelling with a Honduran accent and beating on the door. Five of them entered the house, threatened her husband, aiming a rifle at him, warning him not to file a complaint regarding the detention of Juan Humberto Sánchez, whom they bound and took away without providing any explanation. She became ill, for which reason she was taken to a health center in Colomoncagua. Her husband told father Celso Sánchez de Camasca, in Intibucá, what had happened, and the priest recommended that he file a complaint. Due to this complaint, COFADEH began to file domestic remedies. Days later her husband was summoned by the military to render testimony in Tegucigalpa. The next of kin of Juan Humberto Sánchez made statements before COFADEH. Her daughter, Rosa Delia, who was not at home when her son was detained, stated that those who detained her brother were Salvadorans, but she recognizes that this was due to the erroneous information that she herself gave her when she repeated what the military had said when they took her son away. When her son’s body was found –with his hands and feet bound, the nose and the genitals severed and the eyes taken out-, from what she was told, because she herself was hospitalized at the health center, she was not able to bury him as she would have wanted to, “as a Christian should be buried,” instead he was buried “like [...] an animal.” She commented that her family moved shortly thereafter, because the neighbors, after the death of her son, cut their water supply. Furthermore, due to that death, her husband, her mother- and father-in law, and she herself became ill. For two years, her husband was not able to work, for which reason her children had to drop out of school to help the family. She stated that all she wants is for justice to be served.