STATEMENT GIVEN BY VICTORIA CAILLAVA AT THE POLICE STATION
CAILLAVA - My name was (is?) Maria Victoria Caillava... she was on May 9, I think it was, because she went with the Virgin and there she told me on the 13th. I was about to have lunch, she told me about San Antonio, I already knew of course, I told her I remember because I have so many things. What I tell her makes me remember and she made me remember and I knew that she was there.
OFFICER - (
not translated).
CAILLAVA - Yes, yes, she told me. Look, in June I'm wanting to do....
OFFICER - ....Laudelina?
CAILLAVA - I knew she was going to be there because she is the daughter who goes every day to cook for the mother but she (
I?) didn't know about the others.
OFFICER - (
not translated)
CAILLAVA - No no no no no..
OFFICER - (
not translated)
CAILLAVA - No no no...
OFFICER - .....about Jose?
CAILLAVA - No because the truth is that I didn't know.
OFFICER - ....Laudelina?
CAILLAVA - No, I assumed that Laudelina was going to be there because she was the other time. She was the one who cooked. We had lunch, it was quick. Let's say lunch and the women get up to wash the dishes and since the boys were not bad, they wash the table there on a small platter and they put the plates on top of the table. He saw, and the boys sort of go to look for the tangerines because Catalina has a mandarin plant there, six steps from where we were having lunch, and they are going to look for mandarins, they all come here (
go?). The four of us stayed just over (
at?) the table, which was: Catalina, my husband, Jose, Loan's father and I. The four of us stayed at the table permanently. I thought that Laudelina had been in the kitchen and not and that the others went to take the tangerine and it turned out that... upon entering Catalina's house, she has a patio, so well, under the grass, I thought they were all there because at no time was (
did?) anyone said (
say?) that they were going to the mountains, or, I didn't hear them ask permission from Loan's father. We took him to Loan (
they took Loan?). At no time did they mention anything, nothing at all.
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....one that I must have been 2-4 or so, he told me 'let's go' because that day he was playing River. We are the partner and fan of River.
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....as my husband was insisting me to go right away because the road was quite ugly. I told Catalina to buy (
sell?) me some tangerines to take and drink (
during?) the game, while watching the game at my house. Let's (
I?) go with Catalina, let's put down (
pick?) the tangerines and he (
she?)... and then Laudelina joins us and starts helping us put down (
pick?) the tangerines.
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....my husband and Jose, Loan's dad, stayed at the table talking, they were still at the table, they never moved from the table and after a while they didn't more (
move?) then she (
Laudelina) arrived at the one we had, we took down (
picked?) the tangerines more. She (
Laudelina) receives a phone call there, she receives a phone call and she withdraws a little from us, she moves away again a little from the tangerine plant and there I heard her talking. She was talking and then Vicky (
Laudelina?) comes to me and tells me 'I'm leaving you, I'm leaving because Antonio called me and he tells me that Loan wanted to come near his father and he asks (
asked?) me 'has he arrived here' and 'he didn't arrive?' he (
she?) tells me 'I'm going to look for him and I'm going to meet him at the alley'. I took it to mean that Loan was coming and that she was going to meet us (
him?).
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....let's go to my truck, we get in, we load the tangerines and I told Catalina 'anything, let me know'
OFFICER - And Laudelina was still with you?
CAILLAVA - No, she said goodbye to us and she and Jose and the two of them left and we left. We said goodbye to everyone.
OFFICER - ....all went together?
CAILLAVA - Yes sir, all together. When I arrived at my house there was light on July 9 (
Avenida 9 de Julio), there was no light (
coincidently, there was a power cut that afternoon). Then I receive the call from Catalina, that it must have been approximately 3 o'clock, 3, less a minute or two, I don't know.
OFFICER - (
not translated)
CAILLAVA - I don't know say ten.. we didn't have light, of course, we didn't have light but it was at that moment..
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....and she tells me, Victoria (
Catalina?) tells (
asks?) me 'you didn't see Loan on the way?', 'no Catalina' 'we didn't find the little boy' he (
she?) tells me. She tells (
asks?) me 'look at your truck, if he didn't go up to hide', maybe (
after?) talking to Catalina I'm leaving, we both go to the truck, we look, I even jumped down because I saw that sometimes the boys get into the cardanus (
google search says it's a drive shaft) there or something, you think, I don't know what I know. I looked at everything and I told Catalina - 'look Catalina, he's not here' I tell him (
her?) 'I'm going to call the police', I tell him (
her) why we have to tell him (
them?) not (
not) to help look for him before the sun comes in at 6. The sun is already coming in or it's starting to set. Come in let's go to get more help and that's how (
why?) I called. It's on my cell phone, there will be all the records of the calls. I called a known police officer and he told me - 'Vicky, hey, I'm not on duty but I'm going to give your number to the Officer Torres to call you and Officer Torres called me approximately 10 minutes later and I also asked him to please ask the firefighter to come help us. I broke (
hung?) up with Officer Torres and we picked up coats and water and we (
I?) went with my husband back to the field. We arrived at our house, we were there at the time when communication was made with Catalina. I called the police officer afterwards, the officer called me, we looked at the truck and we returned to the field.
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