When a four-year-old said, “My grandfather, my mother will die.”
A few days later, a social worker visited me. I talked to me about prohibitions, complaints, and shelters. I was scared, very scared, but for the first time I wasn’t alone. I gave my statement to the police and told everything: the first insults, the control, the “unimportant” payments that I had been underestimating for years. Every word was painful, but it was freeing me at the same time.
Javier was remanded in custody. His family tried to persuade me to withdraw the complaint, saying he was “strained” and that I was exaggerating. They offered me money. I looked at them and thought of Lucia, with her trembling voice over the phone. There was no room for retreat.
But the decision I made at that moment was not the hardest thing I faced… the following days revealed what I wasn’t ready for, and I started a real battle that I never imagined I would have.
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