"Women are sluts," the toughest guy in Lugo sentenced by phone in the spring of 2009. The pimp José Manuel García Adán, currently in prison for sexist violence, was trying to quickly fix the damage he had caused in his business one of its exploited victims.
Angie Lizeth Palencia Carrión, 18-year-old Colombian, one of the most novel and desired game pieces of the Queen's club, had announced to a client with power - of the kind who spent thousands of euros in this brothel in the polygon - that she was pregnant of the.
"I have a very big problem and we have to fix it as it is", urged shortly after, in another call recorded by the Civil Guard, the well-known businessman, married with children, to a Lugo policeman with a lot of hand in the brothel.
Angie declared herself in love with that 45-year-old father of a family.
He always went for her at the club "and they had come to travel together," recalls the victim's lawyer, Francisco Torrijos.
The young woman with long dark hair, beautiful, had taken that relationship "seriously" as a couple: "I was excited about the idea of having the baby."
But Angie was forced to have an abortion, the Prosecutor's Office concluded years later, "without anesthesia" or "adequate sanitary means" or a nurse, in a clinic without a license, owned by Carlos Jesús Abuín, a doctor who also consulted in a health outpatient clinic public.
That was as if they were "tearing off his skin", she described in one of her statements in court.
The case has come to trial this week, 11 years after the outbreak of Operation Carioca, the largest case against the learned pimping mafia in Spain, of which what she described as a carnage is only one chapter.
But Angie Palencia has no longer been able to see it.
Almost a year ago he died of a brain tumor, when he had finally rebuilt his life and was working at Media Markt.
At the proposal of the chief prosecutor in Lugo, in 2013 the macro-case was scrapped into 52 pieces, which added 250 volumes, 1.2 million pages, 100 defendants and almost 400 witnesses.
If it weren't for the heavy cogs with which justice moves, Angie Palencia's unwanted abortion could have flown unburdened ever since.
But the girl still had to wait four years before one of the prosecutors who distributed the summary to digest it accused Adan, the abortion doctor and the alleged father of the baby and asked for four and a half years in prison for each.
It was one of the parts of the
Carioca case
that the Prosecutor's Office saw clearer, the first to go to trial, and which also did so barely decaffeinated by the delays.
However, before putting them on the bench, the Lugo Hearing released the businessman from responsibility, and this week the two remaining defendants have sealed an advantageous agreement with the Prosecutor's Office and the private prosecution (now exercised by the girl's mother) on the eve of the hearing, set for days 15 and 16 after being postponed in April due to the pandemic.
"We were tied hand and foot because we lack the witness," Torrijos laments before the death of the victim, which occurred in Madrid on November 25, 2019. The four and a half years in prison have been reduced to only one for Adán ( who is already 21 for mistreating and raping his ex-wife) and a fine of 540 euros for the retired physician, who in return acknowledges having practiced in a non-accredited clinic but declares himself free from any pressure on the woman.
Between Adán and Abuín, they will compensate the mother, a resident of Switzerland, with 4,000 euros (1,000 for the pimp and the rest, the doctor).
That will be all justice for Angie.
"You have to hold on tight because to top it all you're very nervous," the health worker reproached the victim during the vacuum aspiration without anesthesia.
"Damn! You're the most complaining girl I've ever had," she protested while she screamed in pain, the prosecutor said in a 2017 letter. That Monday, April 6, 2009 at eight in the afternoon, Angie had arrived at the clinic with Adam, who also took the opportunity to take his little daughter and one of her friends for a walk.
The pimp and the girls left and the 18-year-old girl was left alone with the doctor, who, according to the Prosecutor's Office, did not give her any consent to sign when he ordered her to undress from the waist down.
Then he tied her legs to the stretcher and started the vacuum cleaner.
The machine was failing and the man, she recalled to Pilar de Lara, the examining judge, "tapped it" to unblock it.
As she needed to have her hands free for this, according to the patient, she herself held “the cannula and the suction device”.
A call to the golf club
When she finished, the woman took a taxi back to her apartment, and Adan diligently telephoned his client, who was playing golf.
He told him that he could stay "calm" and take the trip he had planned.
Among the evidence of abortion under threat are the forensic reports and the pricks ordered by the then Instruction Judge 1 of Lugo months before the Carioca eruption at the end of that year.
However, the Court concluded that it was not proven that the alleged father knew anything about the abortion and that part of the indictment has been rendered ineffective.
According to these wiretaps, Adan, who paid about 600 euros for the operation, was also breathing relieved without the heavy luggage of a five-week gestation.
Because days before he had already made it clear that women were "sluts" and that Angie was "a son of a bitch" who wanted to "screw a client" by bringing that baby into the world.
For him, as a
good service professional
, the client is right: "I have to worry" about fixing the mess, he commented one day, "because it fucks here."
So, according to the prosecutor, "taking advantage of his superiority" and "the personal situation" of the victim, with no family in Spain or "means of subsistence other than the club," Adan put pressure on the girl.
And she, who knew "previous violent behaviors" of her boss, had no alternative.
Another piece from La Carioca describes how the owner of Queen's came to speak to his victims of trafficking: “You are nothing.
I shoot you, I bury you in a cave and nobody asks.
"I was excited about that baby"
"I was very excited about that baby," a colleague of Angie who had been prostituted even younger, at 17, in another club in Lugo declared in court at the time.
Both the alleged father of the child, as well as the doctor and the pimp were arrested and served provisional imprisonment between 2009 and 2010. Angie Palencia was also arrested, slept in the cells and then was released on the condition that she go to sign every 15 days , as investigated for that abortion that she did not want.
Francisco Torrijos came to her to exercise the defense as a public defender, and his statement ended up changing his status from accused to victim.
After the abortion, Angie needed to put land in the middle.
He had fallen into a state of depression, "restlessness" and "insomnia" that were diagnosed by the forensics of the cause.
He fled to Murcia to work in another brothel, but began to bleed.
In the Virgen de la Arrixaca hospital they discovered that part of the placenta had remained inside.
With the twisted course he returned to Galicia.
And to the Queen's.
But after the raid, over time, he began to study.
He planned to finish the high school years that he had started as a teenager at the A Piringalla high school in Lugo.
I wanted to do FP.
And he refused to enter an apartment for victims of violence because he had decided to turn his life around: go to Madrid to study as an administrative assistant.
“I had been at Media Markt for two or three years now;
that's important, ”Torrijos emphasizes after calling Angie's mother, María Carrión, who prefers not to speak to the press.
The mother was the first to emigrate to Lugo.
Meanwhile, the daughter grew up in her country with a lady “whom she adored”.
"It was not her grandmother but she called her grandmother," says the lawyer.
"When that woman died, Angie was charged and was crying because she couldn't travel to Colombia and say goodbye."
It had been about eight years since he had seen his caregiver, because Adan's victim came to Galicia to be with his mother when he was 10 years old.
Her world fell apart later, when the pimp's environment discovered her “working as a waitress at the Tempo,” recalls Torrijos, a restaurant with a reserved area that also appeared in La Carioca as a meeting place for a sort of local elite integrated into the gastronomic club. Action & Klasse.
In 2018, Angie Lizeth was diagnosed with gliomatosis cerebri.
He tried to raise funds on the Internet to pay for the operation in Florida, but did not achieve his goal.
"I am a woman with dreams and goals to fulfill like any human being, and although I have faith, it is hard to be told overnight that you have cancer and it can take you to death," she wrote in May.
In November, chemotherapy and her deep religiosity filled her with hope: "God willing, this will only be a life lesson in which many good things are learned, such as being kinder and loving life every second."
But Angie passed away just a year later.
The “complaining” girl from the Lugo clinic decided to die at home.
She gave up palliative care at the hospital to say goodbye, accompanied by her mother and her dog
Candy
, to this life that she finally loved so much.
