The heartbreaking story of the woman kidnapped and prostituted by a sect in Peru

09/09/2021 19:01

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Updated 09/09/2021 19:17

The young Spanish

Patricia Aguilar

, captured in 2016 via the internet by the leader of a sexual sect in Peru and rescued two years later by her father and her baby, narrates for the first time in a book the hell lived during that time in the that

remained isolated in a jungle of the South American country

. 

Patricia, who is currently 22 years old,

was 16 when she was torn from her family by that sect

, which pushed her to flee "non-voluntarily" to Peru, where she was located and recovered by her father, a story that had a great media coverage in both countries.

Two years after returning to Spain, the young woman recalls that stage in

"Make your will"

that went on sale this Monday, so that what happened to her helps other young women to detect this type of deception by strangers who take advantage of the social networks to sneak into your room with impunity and try to override your will.

Patricia Aguilar had a son with her captor.

Captured to "repopulate" the world

The 306 pages of the book also reflect the legal hole and the complexity of prosecuting this type of crime in Spain, as happened with Patricia, who was manipulated to the point of getting her to abandon her family only a week later. to turn 18 years to

go to Peru convinced that she had been chosen to repopulate the world

with the guru of the sect, with the imminent arrival of an apocalypse.

Written by the Spanish journalist Vanesa Lozano after hours of conversation with Patricia, "Hágase tu WILL" collects what was suffered until the rescue, including textual dialogues on WhatsApp and other networks for a year and a half with the guru.

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the strenuous struggle of her family until her father, Alberto Aguilar, returned her home.

Patricia Aguilar was able to be rescued by her father, Alberto Aguilar.

Patricia wants her hell to "serve" other victims, but she prefers to avoid exposing herself publicly with the release of the book because, although she is recovered and with a normalized life with

her daughter Naomi, who is almost two years old, the result of her relationship with her captor

, "She doesn't feel ready," her cousin and longtime family spokesperson, Noelia Bru, explained to Efe.

The chapters collect the evolution of deception and "how one enters the cave of the wolf without realizing it", as well as "the way in which a friendship relationship begins on the internet that becomes a courtship and in the end ends at a point that seems incomprehensible".

This involuntary protagonist of deception, manipulation, abuse, humiliation and even rape has included a handwritten letter to her little Naomi in which she explains that the book is the "only way to try to prevent it from happening again."

Legislation that falls short

The manipulator is

Félix Steven Manrique

, who called himself Prince Gurdjieff and who began writing to a 16-year-old Patricia after she posted a message on Facebook that revealed that she was going through a difficult mourning over the sudden death of a 29-year-old uncle. years that for her he was almost like a brother.

The leader, who is serving 20 years in prison for human trafficking

, took advantage of the fact that "he was vulnerable, that he was looking for answers and love" to set him up and end up stealing his adolescence and his life.

The young woman did not realize then what was happening because when you are in the sect "there is nothing else", "you live trapped in an underworld with things that are not real" and "they convince you that everything that is outside is bad ", including the family, recounted in the book.

"Make your will" is a plea to cover the legal void that ties hands and feet to the Justice and the Police in Spain by recognizing the criminal figure of coercive persuasion.

Patricia Aguilar and her family argue that this figure should be included in the Spanish Penal Code since "the crimes of inciting a minor to abandon the family home are so slight that it is not worth finding a person on the other side of the world."

The author, the journalist Vanesa Lozano, highlights to Efe that the book also deals with the process of "deprogramming and lucidity" by which the victim gradually realizes what happened, a fundamental step for there to be the "end happy "that Patricia has had.

"We are all susceptible to falling into a sect, and the peculiarity of this case is that there has never been one documented from beginning to end like this one," according to Lozano, who highlights Patricia's "generosity" for "opening the channel" in the pages of the book to prevent new victims of such criminals.

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