The wife of the man dragged twenty miles through city highways under a van Thursday is making a desperate plea for justice, despite little evidence that any charges will be brought against either of the two drivers who struck her husband during the brutal accident. Sonia Carabajo told an Ecuadorian TV station, "It's not fair that my husband died there as if he were an animal...Like an animal - dragged like a dog. How can it be?...It is incomprehensible - it's unjust."
Guido Salvador Carabajo-Jara had never even met his 4-year-old daughter Erica, who lives with her mother in their native Ecuador. Newsday says that the young girl has been diagnosed with a speech impairment, "which a psychologist says may have been caused by not having bonded with her father."
Police reiterated that they have no plans to charge Gustavo Acosta, who originally struck Carabajo-Jara or Manuel Lituma, whose van he became caught under. Both men have clean driving records.
A wake for Carabajo-Jara will be held today at Rivera Funeral Home at 104-02 37th Ave. in Corona. Relatives will send his body to his native Ecuador next week if they are able to raise the needed funds by then.
