49 to be fixed on the aforementioned equitable grounds shall be given to Mrs. Victoria Margarita Palomino-Buitrón, the victim’s mother; As regards non pecuniary damage: e) The day after the detention and disappearance of Mr. GómezPalomino, Mrs. Victoria Margarita Palomino-Buitrón started, in the company of her two daughters, their pilgrimage through various detention centers, hospitals and morgues, in search for her son. Mrs. Palomino-Buitrón could not overcome the anguish of not knowing what has happened to her son, and this circumstance is still causing her great mental and emotional distress; f) the Court must estimate the damage caused to the victim’s partner, Esmila Liliana Conislla, who also suffered ill-treatment at the time of the illegal and arbitrary detention of Mr. Santiago Gómez-Palomino; g) as regards the victim’s siblings, the Court should take into account the degree of relationship and affection existing among them, as well as the suffering inflicted on them due to the forced disappearance of Santiago Gómez-Palomino; As regards other types of reparation h) the State must take certain steps aimed at repairing the damage inflicted to the next of kin of the victim and to avoid the repetition of the events occurred in the instant case; such as: i) investigating the events and identifying, trying and punishing the actual perpetrators and the instigators of the violations of the rights enshrined in the Convention; ii) locating and exhumating of the mortal remains of Santiago Gomez-Palomino, which should then be delivered to the next of kin so that they could bury them according to their religious beliefs; iii) publishing the judgment the Inter-American Court will pronounce in general circulation newspapers in the country, as well as public apologies for the damage caused to the victim’s next of kin; iv) granting Mrs. Victoria Margarita Palomino-Buitrón and the girl Ana María Gómez-Guevara a decent dwelling, through the residential house program; v) awarding a higher education grant to girl Ana María GómezGuevara, in order to assure her the possibility to study at the stateowned University or the National Technological Institute of Higher Education she may choose;

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