-78Arguments of the Commission 147. In this regard, the Commission stated that: a) “The next of kin of Ernestina and Erlinda Serrano Cruz expended substantial financial resources […] to discover the whereabouts of the sisters”; and requested the Court: b) To establish, “the amount of the compensation corresponding to indirect damage (daño emergente) and loss of earnings, in fairness, pursuant to its ample powers in this matter,” so that it sets “a substantial precedent in the inter-American system regarding loss of earnings and the situation of disappeared children”; and c) “Should the Serrano Cruz sisters appear alive, to rule on compensation for the damage to the life project suffered by the victims.” Arguments of the representatives of the victims and their next of kin 148. The representatives requested the Court: a) “To determine, in fairness, an amount that the State must pay to the family for the expenses incurred and for the losses” of the pecuniary assets they possessed, including “their home[,] which was burned down and destroyed by the constant bombing […], their corn harvests, basic grains kept from the previous harvests, domestic animals,” owing to the operations of the Salvadoran Armed Forces; b) To order that the State pay the loss of earnings of Ernestina and Erlinda as of June 1995, since it has jurisdiction to do this. The amount corresponding to the loss of earnings of Ernestina Serrano Cruz is US$68,796.00 (sixty-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-six United States dollars) and of Erlinda Serrano Cruz is US$74,520.00 (seventy-four thousand five hundred and twenty United States dollars); c) With regard to indirect damage, they requested the Court to “determine, in fairness, an amount the State must pay to the family for expenses incurred and losses” of their pecuniary assets. The Serrano Cruz family incurred diverse expenses in order to find Ernestina and Erlinda Serrano Cruz. It also incurred various health-related expenses “owing […] to the impairment [of the health of] the children’s mother (which led to her death),” as well as travel expenses in order to find Ernestina and Erlinda; and d) “Throughout all [the] years of the [Serrano Cruz] family’s suffering, without obtaining any information about the whereabouts of [Erlinda and Ernestina Serrano Cruz], particularly the suffering of their mother and [their] siblings, mental health care has been necessary, on both an individual and a group basis; this has been possible through the Psychology Unit of the Asociación Pro-Búsqueda.” The Asociación Pro-Búsqueda assumed various expenses for the medicines, psychological care, and travel expenses of the next of kin, in 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001 and 2003.