A man who was entrusted by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) with the task of taking care of a child claimed that the guerrillas threatened to kill him if he failed to hand over the boy by December 30th, reported on Thursday the Colombian press.

According to the Colombian government, the 3-year-old boy is Emmanuel, the child born in captivity to hostage Clara Rojas.
 
José Crisanto Gómez, who is under the government protection, said that the FARC gave him the child to look after him. However, the authorities took responsibility for the child in view of his poor health conditions when he was admitted to a hospital, reported Bogota's daily newspaper El Tiempo.

According to the newspaper, Gómez and his family were taken on Wednesday to Bogota in a police plane and he gave testimony for some hours at the Colombian Attorney General Office, Efe reported.