The right to protection against sexual abuse
The missionary introduced Luisa to me. She is a fourteen year old girl that was not registered at birth. When she gets her ID, she wants to change her name, the one chosen by her father, a Colombian who was accused of murder. He had raped and abused her since she was seven years old. Luisa told her mother but she did not believe her. Her father treated her mother badly until he left her for her sister, Luisa’s aunt. Her mother moved to Santo Domingo de los Colorados where she married and had three children. She sent Luisa to live with her father in Lago Agrio because her new husband did not want her. Luisa, her father and her aunt shared the same room. When the aunt would leave, her father would abuse her. One day her father told her to come to bed, and she said, “That is not my obligation, it is my aunt who must do it.” Her father was angry and Luisa’s aunt did not believe her. I was left speechless when Luisa said she was left pregnant by her father. She said to the missionary: “You see, she doesn’t say a word.” Her father denied being the father of the baby and called her a “double bitch”. The only person who believed her was a police officer who accepted Luisa at his home and reported the rapist, who escaped Lago Agrio. When the baby moves in her belly she says she feels “that a bug is walking.” She is smart, keen and fun. Luisa wants to give her baby up for adoption and start a new life with a different name. Sometimes her eyes seem sad. She wants to study to be beautician when everything is over. She wants to go and live with her mother.
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