85 Breidy Maybeli Sánchez Argueta and Norma Iveth Sánchez Argueta, who have been stated by the representatives, will inherit said amount; b) twenty-five percent (25%) of the compensation will be given to the person who was the spouse or permanent companion of the victim at the time of his death; in the sub judice case, it has been proven by means of testimony that at the time of the facts Juan Humberto Sánchez had two companions, Velvia Lastenia Argueta Pereira and Donatila Argueta Sánchez, who will receive the amount allotted to them in equal parts; and c) twenty-five percent (25%) of the compensation will be given to the parents. If one of the parents has died, his or her part will augment that of the other. It has been proven that the parents of Juan Humberto Sánchez are María Dominga Sánchez and Juan José Vijil Hernández; the latter is his stepfather and the facts of the case have proven his close relationship, for which reason the compensation will be divided in equal parts between these two persons. 165. The criteria established in the previous paragraph regarding the beneficiaries of compensation for pecuniary damage will also apply to distribution of compensation for non-pecuniary damage (infra 177). b) Consequential damage 166. Taking into account the claims of the parties, the body of evidence, the proven facts in the instant case and its case law, the Court rules that compensation for pecuniary damage in the instant case must also include the following: a) the various expenses incurred by the next of kin of Juan Humberto Sánchez, both his parents and his companion, Donatila Argueta Sánchez, with the aim of establishing his whereabouts, given the cover-up of what had happened and the lack of investigation of the facts by the Honduran authorities. These expenses include visits to public institutions, expenses for transportation, mainly to the city of Colomoncagua and La Esperanza, lodging, and others. With respect to the requests by COFADEH and CEJIL regarding expenses incurred in domestic proceedings and before the interAmerican system, this Court will rule on the matter in the chapter pertaining to legal costs and expenses (infra 194). For all the aforementioned reasons, in fairness, the Court decides to grant US$1,700.00 (one thousand seven hundred United States dollars) for expenses incurred by the next of kin of the victim searching for him, US$200.00 (two hundred United States dollars) of which will be distributed in equal parts between the parents of the victim and US$1,500.00 (one thousand five hundred United States dollars) to his companion, Donatila Argueta Sánchez; b) as regards the earnings lost by the companion, Donatila Argueta Sánchez, trying to establish the whereabouts of Juan Humberto Sánchez; and the earnings lost by the sisters of the victim, Reina Isabel Sánchez and Domitila Vijil Sánchez, as a consequence of the latter’s trip to the public hearing at the Inter-American Court (supra 23), the representatives have proven that they lost their jobs; however, the Court notes that they have not set an amount to compensate for said damage, for which reason it sets as the amount of compensation in fairness, taking into account the specific