Author and artist
Roberto Sendoya Escobar is an author and artist, and the first-born son of Pablo Escobar. Read further to find out more about Roberto’s life and work.
Birth
Roberto Sendoya Escobar was born in a village on the outskirts of Bogota city, Colombia South America on the 2nd of August 1965. His birth was registered with the Roman Catholic church of Nuestra Senora de Lourdes, in the district of the Chapinero, Bogota city, on the 11th of December 1965. (Book no: 36, Folio no: 187, No: 377)
He was baptised Roberto by the priest, Father Hugo Londono, on the 21st of September 1965. The entry into the record books of the Roman Catholic Church also confirms the names of Roberto’s birth mother and father as, mother: Maria Luisa Sendoya and father: Pablo Escobar. The father was not present at the baptism.
Adoption
The adoption of the little boy baptised Roberto was also registered on the same day, the 11th of December 1965, in the book of civil registers in Bogota, Colombia. The entry states his birth date was 2nd of August 1965, and that his name was changed from Roberto Sendoya Escobar to Phillip Charles Robert Witcomb.
Identity change
In a further attempt to conceal Roberto’s true heritage, there is a further entry into the records in August of 1974 at the 3rd Notary of Bogota.
This entry confirms that the lawyer Mr Carlos Echeverri, and two witnesses, Gregorio Bautista and Carlos Escobar, representing the Little boy now named Phillip Charles Robert Witcomb, had reregistered notarised copies of the original birth and adoption certificates document (escritura) with the birth date of the boy born Roberto changed to 1962.
