Gabriela Sevilla, the mother who reappeared without her baby

Gabriela Sevilla, the Peruvian who disappeared on October 19 while pregnant.RR.SS.

"Where is Martina?" Peru wonders in the last few hours.

On Wednesday night, a 30-year-old woman left her house in Lima for a clinic after going into labor.

Gabriela Sevilla Torello was nine months pregnant and her water had broken.

But she never reached her destination.

Her mother, who was waiting for her at the clinic, reported the case, and since then the search for her began.

“Please, give me back my daughter and my first granddaughter who is going to be called Martina.

My heart is broken in two, ”said Rita Torello, the grandmother, to the television cameras, in the middle of a prayer vigil, organized by her neighbors from the Surco district, on Thursday night.

More than twenty-four hours had passed and her mother's whereabouts were unknown.

At first, it was said that Gabriela Sevilla had taken a taxi from the Beat service.

But then the company issued a statement stating that "they had not identified any trip requested from Gabriela's account or from her partner" on the indicated route and time.

A photograph that she would have taken with her cell phone from the back seat of the car was leaked to the press.

The image is blurry, and only a driver can be seen from behind.

It was reported that she had sent it to her partner, who, by the way, has not shown his face or offered any statements.

A neighbor of Gabriela Sevilla handed over a video to the Police from her security camera, located in front of her house.

In the sequence, which is not very clear either, a woman can be distinguished - everything indicates that it is her - who opens the door and heads towards the residential parking lot, with a cell phone in her hand.

Minutes later, she returns with a man and they leave with a suitcase.

All in the span of twenty-five minutes.

To help identify her, the authorities limited themselves to pointing out her tattoos: a lotus flower on her back, as well as other engravings on her left forearm, the ankle of her left leg and the ring finger of her right hand.

In the networks, the case became a trend: women began to express, with terror, how insecure they feel in a country, where according to the Ombudsman's Office, more than 5,900 disappeared in 2021. And where, in addition, They regret 75 femicides nationwide reported until August 31, 2022, according to figures from the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations (MIMP).

Gabriela Sevilla, the most wanted woman in the country in the last two nights, reappeared this Thursday morning, after 34 hours of disappearance, at the Military Hospital of the Jesús María district, but she was alone: ​​she was missing Martina, her baby.

According to the Police, she has bruises and a sensory disorder.

In other words, she was in

.

At first she was told that she had been intoxicated, but the truth is that she could not be confirmed.

"According to the first information we have, she would have appeared in Villa María del Triunfo without her baby, she would have arrived at a relative's house and her parents have already taken her here to the hospital," said General Manuel Lozada of the Lima Police Region. .

Villa María del Triunfo is a district southeast of Lima, an hour and a half from Jesús María.

How did she end up there?

Why didn't her partner, from whom she says she was separated, report the case?

But above all, where is Martina?

The Minister for Women and Vulnerable Populations, Claudia Dávila, has assured that the protocol with Migrations has been activated so that no newborns leave the border.

“[Gabriela] has said that she does not want to talk, because she is afraid.

She is threatened.

We are facing a criminal act and the investigations have to continue their course.

But now we are going to use all our efforts to find the baby," Dávila said.

There will be plenty of time to continue tying up loose ends.

But for now the most important thing is that a baby returns to her mother.

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