-38of the Red Cross that traced them and returned them to their next of kin, the Salvadoran Red Cross was not responsible for this, […] so he knew nothing about the disappearance of” the sisters, Ernestina and Erlinda Serrano Cruz.” The second witness, who testified on September 24, 2001, before the Second Magistrate’s Court of San Salvador, stated that he was unaware of “the abduction of two children in [1996] (sic).” 48(47) On February 4, 2002, following some judicial formalities, the president of the Red Cross female volunteers at that time testified before the Public Prosecutor’s office and stated that “she kn[ew] nothing” about Ernestina and Erlinda Serrano Cruz (supra para. 48(43) and 48(46)). In addition, she indicated that, in the case of children, “the files [of the work of the Salvadoran Red Cross were] kept by each branch or unit of volunteers” in the form of “a record card with information on the identity of the child, as well as the place to which he or she would be handed over” and that “the files [of that era] had been destroyed owing to the [1986] earthquake.” On March 14, 2002, the said President also testified before the Second Magistrate’s Court of San Salvador. In addition to the information she had provided in her previous testimony, she added that in “during the war, they were present in many places and that the [Salvadoran] Red Cross were never alone[, but were always accompanied by] a member of the International Red Cross and that […] they never had direct contact with the Army; that the children collected were taken to institutions such as Rosa Virginia or Padre Mucci, that is (sic) the SOS Villages, or the Children’s Home, or the Salvadoran Children’s Council.” She indicated that, “with regard to the record cards, she did not make them out, but she signed them and they were kept by the Salvadoran Red Cross [; …] she supposed that […] Father John Cortina was given some record cards because he carries photocopies of them with him.” The file of the criminal proceedings contains no record that the prosecutor or the judge investigated the institutions to which the children who were found were handed over according to this witness. 48(48) On April 9, 2002, when the prosecutor assigned to the proceedings indicated that the order to the Second Magistrate’s Court of Santa Ana for it to take the statement of a witness who was a messenger of the Salvadoran Red Cross in 2001 (supra para. 48(46)) had not been acted on, the Chalatenango Trial Court issued an official communication to this Magistrate’s Court requesting it to carry out this measure. The statement was not made during the criminal proceedings. 48(49) On January 21, 2005, two days after the President of the Inter-American Court had requested the State to submit information on any other measure taken during the criminal proceedings before the Chalatenango Trial Court since September 6, 2004 (supra para. 22), the prosecutor assigned to the proceeding requested, for the first time, that an official communication be sent to the Attorney General’s office requesting it to provide information on whether the names of the sisters, Ernestina and Erlinda Serrano Cruz, appeared in the adoption records from May 1982 to May 1993. This request does not contain any data, other than the names, which would allow the sisters to be traced based on another aspect. On January 27, 2005, the Chalatenango Trial Court decided to issue an official communication to the Attorney General’s Office, requesting this information. The criminal proceedings file does not record whether this communication was ever issued. c) Procedural actions related to the Armed Forces 48(50) The captain and the officer who were allegedly members of the Atlacatl