The family of a minor raped in Igualada asks for help to catch the aggressors

The Mossos d’Esquadra they investigate the sexual assault suffered by a minor under 16 years old in Igualada during the night from October 31 to November 1. The young woman is admitted to the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital where she is recovering from serious injuries inflicted by the aggressor, or aggressors. The family, plunged into a state of disbelief, has contacted the media such as EL PERIÓDICO because they want to know what has happened while safeguarding the identity of the victim. They ask for citizen collaboration to find people who have information that can help investigators to catch rapists. And they want to warn other families that those who attacked their daughter are still at large. Next, the family story. That began with a call that occurred shortly before nine in the morning on Monday and that the victim’s mother has recorded on her mobile phone.

–Is she the mother of (& mldr;)?

-Yes.

– I call her from the Mossos de Igualada. Your daughter is in the hospital. Has injuries & mldr;

The daughter had gone out that night to party. She had arranged to meet some friends to go to the Epic nightclub in Igualada. As this family resides in Vilanova i la GeltrúIt was time to drive her to Igualada and let her return by train the next day. The parents doubted whether to let her go or not and eventually relented. But the teenager did not return home by train as planned. Instead, the mother received a call from a Catalan police officer who refused to tell her the seriousness of what had happened over the phone. The official knew that they had to drive to Igualada and asked them the impossible: not to run.

“I’ll catch the six o’clock train”

“On Sunday night some friends came to our house for dinner. So we took her to Igualada around eight o’clock in the afternoon, we gave her money and we left her at the Burger King, so she could eat something while she waited for her friends & rdquor ;, explains the mother’s partner. “About two o’clock, I sent him a whatsapp to see if he was okay and he said yes. I’d be at the disco. At five o’clock I asked him again how he was going and what time they planned to return. He only told me that he would catch the train at six. It was the last we heard from her, until the call from the Mossos & rdquor ;.

Shortly before six in the morning, the minor left the disco. An hour later, a truck driver found her lying on the ground in a field near the train station. Was unconscious and naked, with the dress up to the shoulders. The trucker thought she was dead. He covered her with a blanket and called 911. It was not dead. She was taken by ambulance to the Igualada hospital and, from there, to the Sant Joan de Déu hospital. Her injuries left little doubt: she had received a brutal blow to the head and had been mercilessly raped. The family, who want to protect the anonymity of the minor, yes you want the severity of your injuries to be known. According to the mother, her daughter has “a 5-centimeter vaginal tear, a 15-centimeter anal tear, a shattered sphincter and a skull fracture & rdquor ;.

A dozen different medical specialists have visited the adolescent and carried out the first interventions. Her vagina has been sutured and a colostomy made so she can temporarily poop into a bag while they try to rebuild the damage to her intestine. “She is a strong girl, she is a strong girl & rdquor;, the mother repeats. “I think there will be no physical sequelae & rdquor ;, he wishes aloud. “And the emotional ones? & Rdquor ;, he asks next. The minor is conscious, but ensures not remembering what happened when leaving the disco. Her parents cross their fingers that that means she was beaten first and then raped. In that order. That he did not feel the inhuman pain that his aggressor, or aggressors, inflicted on him.

“I am still trapped in a state of disbelief & rdquor ;, insists the mother, when 36 hours have passed since she received the call from the Mossos. “It’s as if something like this couldn’t have happened to my daughter & rdquor ;, he tries to justify himself. “Is a good student. That’s why I let her go to the disco. Because it is very responsible. It’s a girl ten. He has just started second year of Baccalaureate and next year he wanted to study Philology, I hope he will recover in time & rdquor ;. The youngest is now facing weeks of hospitalization.

“Get them. I hope they catch them& rdquor ;, repeats the mother as well. He refers to those who attacked his daughter. He wants the Mossos to be able to stop them. The family believes there were several. Doctors and police have also let them fall that there were most likely at least two.

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Police sources confirm that they are working with the complaint for sexual assault that this family has filed and point out that they are making every effort to catch the rapists. They have the statement of the victim’s friends and the few things she has said. They all agree that she left the disco accompanied. The investigation is focused on identifying this companion. The family asks whoever reads this, that if they have information about who may be the young man who left the Epic with the minor, notify the Mossos.