- 100 - Cf. Report prepared by the Human trafficking Prosecutor on June 2, 2017 (evidence file, folios 7701, 7708 and 7710). See also, Press release, “CSJ retira inmunidad a juez por adopciones ilegales,” Prensa Libre, May 8, 2014, Available at: http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/justicia/CSJ-retira-inmunidad-juez-Escuintla-Mario-Peralta_0_ 1134486733.html (cited in the Merits Report, folio 746), and Press release, “Piden juicio por caso de adopción ilegal en Asociación Primavera”, Diario La Hora, August 1, 2014, Available at: http://lahora.gt/piden-juicio-por-caso-de-adopcionilegal-en-asociacion-primavera/ (cited in the Merits Report, folio 746). 525 Mrs. Ramírez Escobar indicated that the person who took care of her sons had allegedly left her sons alone with malicious intent and asserted that “it was she who had planned all of this as a new method of kidnapping because, on more than one occasion, she had indicated that the children could be given up in adoption to a family that would give [Mrs. Ramírez Escobar] good money; that she could find out through the lawyers she knew and that [Mrs. Ramírez Escobar] should give part of the money to her.” Application for judicial review filed on August 22, 1997 (evidence file, folio 4281). Meanwhile, Mr. Tobar Fajardo, in the briefs he submitted during the judicial proceedings claimed that “the judges have had to excuse themselves because the owner of the business of the sale of children is the wife of one of the justices of the Supreme Court of Justice […] whose business has flourished in recent times owing to the children that some courts have referred to it.” Brief of Gustavo Tobar Fajardo of December 17, 1998 (evidence file, folios 4126 and 4127). Subsequently, in 2000, Mr. Tobar Fajardo and Mrs. Ramírez Escobar jointly stated that the “children were taken out of the country by means of illegal procedures, as a high-priced commodity, under the disguise of the noble institution of adoption.” Brief of Mrs. Ramírez Escobar and Mr. Tobar Fajardo of November 6, 2000 (evidence file, folios 4591 and 4592). 526