Daniela lives in the United States. She says that "every day" she fights "to be better," to leave behind a past that tormented her. She is "very angry" at the "impunity" that has permeated her history and, also, her present.
A few months ago he went to the movies. He saw a movie, "Sounds of Freedom," and felt it was his time. "It really shocked me a lot and I thought, 'It's about time, now I do have a voice, I'm big. Now I have people who support me.' That was my motivation to be able to say it, first, on social media. I believed that if I exposed them, at least I was going to have social justice," he tells Clarín from his home in North America.
The response shocked her: not only did she receive support from her followers and other victims of abuse, but she was also contacted by family members and people around her who had been victims of the same man. And that propelled her to reach the next level.
In November, she traveled to Buenos Aires for three weeks to file a lawsuit and achieve what she failed to do as a child: "Maybe now people will listen to me and believe me," she thought.
On social media
It all started in a house in Sarandí, in Avellaneda, south of the Conurbano. Daniela Pini lived with her mother, Leila (47). At that time, the woman had formed a new relationship with a man named Nestor (50). From that moment on, Daniela experienced what she describes as "torture."
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When I was 3 years old, my mother decided to get into a relationship with a man who was 28 years old, named Néstor Fabián Ciompela. They made my life shit. And not only mine, but that of everyone around me," Daniela began to recount in a video she shared on her social networks and which she titled "I won't shut up anymore."
The girl denounced her father for sexual abuse in childhood and her mother for cover-up.
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I spent 10 years being abused every fucking night of my life and every chance I had during the days. There were several people who somehow noticed, found out, took their daughters away, but didn't do anything about it with me," she said.
Daniela warned her mother "seven times" of the abuse she was a victim of, without her intervening to help her.
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My memories of kindergarten and elementary school will never leave my head. Iwork every day of my life to be able to overcome a lot of traumas and wounds that were left in me. It wasn't just them, it was also all the people who saw it, who knew about it and who looked the other way and didn't say anything. Allthe people who when I reported him when I was 12 years old, didn't do anything. He didn't take my side. All those cops who told me 'mmm, we can't do anything' and let him go," he objected.
The First Complaint
When she was entering adolescence, Daniela was encouraged to go to a police station and report her abuser. She was accompanied by her mother, father and an aunt. She was subjected, without any kind of containment protocol, to traumatizing medical tests that she still remembers. They didn't believe him.
After that, her mom kicked her out of her house.
At that time, since it was a child, the justice system required that the complaint be ratified by an adult, as established by the Penal Code. As her mother was protecting her abuser, she did not do so and the case was shelved.
No one, neither the police, nor the justice system, nor children's organizations intervened to rescue Daniela from her ordeal. Nor did other children in the family who remained under the guardianship of their abusers.
The amendment of the Penal Code was only achieved in 2018 and meant that crimes against the sexual integrity of children and adolescents are public
What do you mean? That anyone can file a complaint and the justice system, through its agencies, is obliged to investigate - regardless of whether or not the complaint is ratified - and the State, through the children's agencies of each jurisdiction, is obliged to provide them with protection.
Daniela did not have access to that right and that is why her complaint was archived.
The Cause Today
The young woman accompanied her testimony exposed on social networks with a court filing. Ten days ago, through his lawyer Matías Morla, he sent a letter to the Attorney General's Office of Lomas de Zamora asking them to unfile the complaint and reopen the investigation, filed in 2008 at the Avellaneda police station.
As they received no response, they filed a new complaint with the Attorney General's Office of the Judicial Department of Avellaneda-Lanús, where the crimes were committed.
Daniela Pini, with her lawyer Matías Morla.
"Daniela's story moved us in the studio. Because although we have a lot of experience in cases of abuse, in hers in particular the complicity of her mother with the abuser is added. Her mother did not ratify the complaint that Daniela dared to make when she was a teenager and that was a very hard blow for her. Today we are accompanying her in this process seeking justice," Morla said.
In addition, he explained that, protected by the Piazza Law, which modified the statute of limitations for crimes of sexual abuse in childhood, they will file a new complaint.
"There are messages, chats, WhatsApp texts that confirm the abuses. Family members and people who had direct ties to the family and to Daniela give an account of the ordeal she experienced. We were able to download those messages and through a notary public we certified them to accompany them in the complaint," said Morla, for whom "the mother has the same responsibility as her stepfather."
"I always believed that no one was going to give importance to what I said, I asked for help for 11 years. I filed a complaint and nothing happened. I thought nothing was going to happen," Daniela laments.
And he reproaches: "I am very angry about impunity, that they have never listened to me, when I spoke about myself or that I saw other people who were also victims of the same thing. They have new families, he has new children with a woman my age. She got married. They have new, stable lives and all of us, who were abused by him, are undergoing psychological treatment."
Daniela Pini, with her husband, in Miami.
Daniela has a "chest anguish" that she can't get out. He says "he's not leaving," that he told it as many times as he needed to, but this time, with a bit of justice, he hopes to get rid of that pressure.
"I hope for justice for me and for all the people who live in that house, for the people who stayed overnight, for those of us who have a million traumas because of what they did to us," the young woman confesses. And he closes: "I hope to be able to close a chapter of my life, it was always a huge burden, a horrible anguish in the chest that does not go away. I need this pain to go away from me. I want my normal life, like they have. I want and need justice."
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