Melody, Fernando Espinoza’s complainant for sexual abuse, breaks her silence and tells Kicillof: “I felt disgusted”

Melody Rakauskascomplainant Fernando Espinoza By Sexual Exploitationthe mayor of La Matanza spoke to the media for the first time since being tried. Fearing for his life and criticizing governor Axel Kicillof for sharing an event with the communal chief after knowing the verdict: “I felt disgusted.”

Spoke to the woman who came to work in Espinoza’s personal secretariat Ln+in an interview aired last night. He recounted everything he had “endured” until the judicial resolution that came a few days ago and assumed that Espinoza was “going to try to defend himself with lies.” He lamented, “They are depriving me of everything that cost me so much to report.”

Melody revealed that as soon as she started working at the municipality, the mayor “had already invited himself to her home”. She admitted that he approached her home three times, facts she believes can be demonstrated with security cameras and telephone antennas that can confirm that “he was on the radar of her home”. In addition, “there are recordings of every dinner he had at my house and you can verify everything with his voice.”

The complainant said she started recording it, “because of the fear I had at the time when my partner told me they were going to interview me.” Melody commented that her ex-partner pressured her to “accept” the communal head’s invitation: “He told me that it was totally normal, that he used to do that, that he wasn’t going to do anything to me, that he didn’t look at it that way. My partner was always trying to support what Espinoza did, he never refuted him, on the contrary, it seems that he was testing her and me “I felt myself between two powerful people”

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“It’s very hard for me to say that. It costs me, but I feel like it pays off. “I can’t say it, but I think it’s very clear,” she said of her ex-boyfriend.

Melody said they have been trying to “muddy up” the matter ever since she complained: “They tried to defame meThey tried to deny my facts, by saying things about me that are very far from reality they dirty me, they dirty my image in a wrong way, all trying by all means to prove that what Fernando Espinoza did was good”.

“They tried to defame me to justify sexual abuse. This is very serious. When I said to Mr. Fernando Espinoza ‘Don’t touch me,’ I told him very clearly: ‘I don’t want you to touch me, don’t touch me.’ ‘I got away from him,’ he said of the alleged episodes of abuse. Rakouskas defined it as “hand-to-hand combat.” “He had no mercy, that night was horrible… it was one of the worst moments of my life”He continued.

“And from there began a horror story of what happened to me. Of course, until today, because I am constantly being accused, denied and stigmatized,” he expressed.

Melody said from the moment she started experiencing the abuse, she began sending audio every time she went to City Hall “in case she didn’t come home.”

Terrified, “her face smeared from crying all night,” the woman described what the first face-to-face meeting with the mayor after the incident was like: “This bastard, when he called me into his office, asked me ‘What happened to you, chubby girl? Are you okay? Can you tell me what happened?’ I felt like I was talking to two different people. I had a Fernando Espinoza from the municipality and a Fernando Espinoza, the abuser, who was in my house, in my home.”

Espinoza’s team says that on several occasions Melody withdrew the complaint and contradicted herself when describing what happened. When asked about this, she explained that she was “too scared to report because everyone was telling me to keep quiet, it would be better if I try to overcome the situation as much as possible, stay close to the family, pray a lot, they were saying”.

“I decided to report for all those people who experience abuse and don’t dare. Maybe they don’t reach out because maybe because of the sadness, because of the pain, they die on the way. I decided to make a change that day and I said, ‘I don’t care if I have to denounce a powerful person, I don’t care if they kill me’, Because I’m afraid of getting killed, obviously.“, admitted the young woman, who revealed that they had approached her to withdraw the complaint, “so that he would stop doing this.” “They wanted me to sign a document,” she added.

The day after the prosecution, when asked about the photo of Governor Axel Kicillof next to Espinoza, the former municipality employee said it was “shameful”. “The first thing I felt was disgust. He is a governor. What kind of example are you setting for society?”Launched against provincial leader.

“I am not talking about a political party, I am talking about an institution, a public official who is supporting a sexual abuser. It doesn’t matter how many times he committed the crime, if it was just one night, if it was 15 minutes, ten minutes, he did it and that’s it. It has not been discussed,” he added.

“It was terrifying for me to report it. I even had to endure death threats. If I reported it or if I behaved badly or didn’t behave the way they wanted me to, I had to endure being told that my days were numbered.”Rackauskas concluded.