Convicted dictatorship-era criminal Juan Carlos Vázquez Sarmiento died on Tuesday. He was 77.

The former Air Force intelligence corporal was serving time in prison for appropriating a disappeared couple’s son — whom he later raised as his own — and was scheduled to stand trial for kidnapping three others.

Vázquez Sarmiento made headlines on two separate occasions last year. In July, he was one of several human rights abusers whom the ruling La Libertad Avanza coalition visted in prison. Then in September, he left attorneys, judges, and survivors in shock when, unprompted, he exposed his genitals and began urinating in a bucket during a Zoom trial hearing.

News of his death was made public on Wednesday. A website called

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