1 A CHURCH AND HORRIBLE MEMORIES
A dark mist is covering my entire body, although one day there was a light that illuminated my days, I am sorry to tell you that that light faded that day.
Until today my body shudders when remembering such horrible events, but I will not take more of your valuable time, of course, it must be longer than the little time I have left to live.
I'll start counting that day, the day everything was taken from me.
It all started at the age of eight, one cold December morning.
It was around 9 in the morning, I was going to school like every day, but someone blocked my way when I got to the door of a church.
He was a man in his 30s, all his clothes were scruffy, and he had a faint smell of alcohol emanating from his body...
I was thinking of speeding up my pace so that I could ignore it, when suddenly the man started asking me countless questions…
All of his questions were so excruciating that they were enough to make a child, or even an adult, nervous.
After a few minutes I was able to get away from the man, when I was finally able to deflect the man and speed up, so I could reach my destination.
When I looked back, the man grabbed my arms, so brutally I felt they were going to break, and entered the church.
After all, I think my screams weren't loud enough for anyone to hear.
I still don't understand why no one noticed...
Upon reaching the interior of the church, the man went to a bathroom, which would become one of the most atrocious scenes of my entire life.
Being inside a cubicle, the man tore my pants, began to touch my whole body while holding my neck, the fact of not being able to do anything gave me anxiety, I wanted this to end...
I yelled and yelled with all my might, but nothing seemed to work, I reached a point where my vocal cords couldn't take anymore... And that was the worst moment.
The man inserted his member inside my body, that was one of the scariest moments of my entire life...
It hit my face and body when I tried to resist, and failed to choke me…
At that moment I got strength from where I could to be able to scream, but all my attempts were in vain, since he later submerged my head in a toilet to drown me...
Moans and bubbling screams came from the same place... Perhaps a scene could be more hateful.
After a few minutes swallowing water, I lost consciousness.
I don't remember much of what happened, but the pain I felt at that moment and everything that came after it was even worse...
When I opened my eyes, the only thing I could see was blood everywhere...
I remember seeing a silhouette getting dressed quickly… I think the man left the scene thinking he was dead the moment I lost consciousness.
The moment I heard the door close, I opened my eyes again.
I couldn't feel any part of my body, blood flowed from my head as well as from my parts...
I wanted to scream, but no words came out of my mouth, just tears surrounded my face...
After a few minutes a woman entered the bathroom and when she saw me she got so excited that she began to scream...
Their screams were so loud that after a few minutes countless people arrived at the scene, they were in charge of calling the emergency...
-Why were her screams heard and mine not... I thought
That was the last thing, what went through my mind before I lost my senses again...
It is said that the place quickly filled with journalists.
"The intestines began to come out of her anus during the ****, and the criminal put them back inside to continue the act. Then he made her sit down so he could continue the act.
Those were one of the words most said by journalists.
The parents of the students who were nearby begun to panic. What was known was that a girl, approximately 8 years old, had been taken by ambulance in serious condition…
At the time of rescue, he was oscillating between periods of consciousness and mental confusion. But I was able to say my name and give my father's phone number.
My parents were contacted by the police and rushed to the hospital. My mother was in shock, and my father made the decisions.
The doctors couldn't believe how she was still alive. He had significant internal bleeding and extensive trauma to his face and abdomen.
They had to operate urgently. They had to remove my anus, or I would bleed to death. Alternatively, a colostomy was performed.
After the operation was successful, he was in a lot of pain and was on intravenous painkillers 24 hours a day.
When I finally got to see dad, he was horrified to see me... he wondered like an 8-year-old girl who was between life and death.
—" You have to catch the bad man… were the first words that came out of my mouth"
And from that moment I said everything I remember with great difficulty in opening my lips.
From that moment the investigation begins, after a few days they find fingerprints from the crime scene, when analyzing them they come across those of an ex-convict…
The man has been identified as Daniel Camargo, 36. But according to the police, that was not enough to incriminate him.
During the hospitalization, with a lot of pain and discomfort, I had to identify my rapist through photos… my statements were recorded on video, which would later be sent to the police.
After a few weeks, Daniel Camargo was placed in preventive detention, he already had several police records, including a charge of **** of a 19-year-old girl.
On the day of the trial, Ecuadorian justice did not seem to cooperate. The criminal's defenses included many nonsensical arguments.
Daniel Camargo's lawyer worked with the theory that he was an alcoholic man and that, under the effects of the substance, he lost his memory of his actions.
Daniel Camargo's lawyer worked with the theory that he was an alcoholic man and that, under the effects of the substance, he lost his memory of his actions.
He even said that the clothes found with the victim's blood had been lost three days before in a construction site where he had been working.
A few months later, the video in which I identified the criminal was challenged by the defense, forcing me to compare myself in court and make a new identification in front of a full jury.
My suffering, recovery time and trauma of the case were not respected at any time.
Daniel Camargo was originally sentenced to life in prison, but after he testified that the criminal smelled of alcohol, his sentence was reduced to 12 years in prison, since according to authorities, "he was not of sound mind while committing the crime."
My parents filed a lawsuit against the prosecution for having subjected me to physical and psychological suffering.
The prosecutor interrogated me shortly after leaving the operating room and made me sit upright to answer the same questions four times due to the prosecutor's mistakes during the recording…
They violated the protocol by taking the testimony of a minor and recording it in public.
After several years, the government paid around $30,000 in compensation for violations committed by the prosecution.
After news of his conviction broke, many petitions calling for a new trial were dropped.
I was left with permanent damage to my lower abdomen and was told to be permanently disabled.
I needed 8 months of treatment and I had to travel to Quito every weekend. I then successfully underwent surgery to implant an artificial anus so that I no longer need a colostomy bag.
I suffered from depression and mental stress after the attack. A year after the assault, after receiving psychiatric treatment, I recovered by 70%. Shortly after, I began to attend school again.
According to my father, from a 2020 report, he said:
"Just watch cartoons and avoid the news, so you don't have a chance to see something related to sexual violence.
Daniel Camargo was released on December 13, 2020, and returned to live with his wife, 1 km from the victim's family.
"We didn't want to run away, but there was no alternative. I mean, the government did nothing but force the victim into hiding."
My father said, a few days after Camargo was released, after having served his reduced sentence of 12 years…
Very little could be said about me, since the doctors said that I would not live more than 14 years since, after such a heinous crime, all my organs were irreparably damaged…
