Santiago de Chile.- A court in southern Chile On Monday, a teacher was ordered remanded for administering coca leaves to his 12-year-old students, who had to go to the hospital due to various symptoms of poisoning.
The facts, which were discovered after a complaint from one of the students’ mothers, had a link in Puerto Aisen, a city to more than 1,600 kilometers south of Santiago, in full Chilean patagonia.
“The students presented symptoms, so they would have attended the Puerto Aisen Hospital, place where the respective urine tests and rapid drug test were carried out and they tested positive for said substance, “he explained to the media. the prosecutor, María Inés Núñez Briso.
The teacher, who was arrested by agents of the Investigative Police (PDI), He is accused of a crime of drug trafficking in small quantities, but the sentence can be aggravated for “having administered psychotropic substances to minors in his capacity as a teacher and within a school,” said the prosecutor.
According to the local press, the agents found inside the professor’s home “medications subject to psychotropic control, cannabis and coca leaves such as those he had supplied to minors.”
The Guarantee Court of Puerto Aysén set a period of 45 days for the end of the investigation. EFE
