Horror in Uruguay: three brothers and their mother were raped by their other three brothers

Three brothers were arrested after long abuses of their other three brothers and their mother in a peripheral neighborhood west of Montevideo. The case was discovered when, last Monday, a neighbor called the police alerting that she heard screams at all times in the house next door.

According to the neighbor's account, she approached the fence that divides the houses and looked in the direction of her neighbors' courtyard, where she saw that a young woman was raped by her brother in broad daylight. Within minutes of the call, patrolmen arrived from the Montevideo Rapid Response Unit (URPM), the newspaper El País reported.

When the troops arrived, they found the mother of the six children who accepted that her family was screaming, but claimed that it was because her children “were crazy,” Telemundo said. However, a while later she ended up confessing that she and her three children were victims of sexual abuse by the other three.

Inside the house, the police were surprised by the state in which they found two of the daughters, aged 35 and 26. They were in a state of malnutrition and poor hygiene for years. Both were in shock and the older one couldn't speak, but covered her face with one hand and clung to a teddy bear. The 26-year-old managed to exchange a few words with the agents.

According to research sources told the newspaper, the heights of both women were similar to those of a 13-year-old girl, which made her growth deficit evident.

The two women and a 13-year-old brother (also accused of raping their sisters) were taken to the Centro Coordinador del Cerro clinic to receive first medical attention. “The two women were very hungry. One of them told a doctor that she hadn't eaten for days. They were going to mate and cigars,” said one of the policemen, adding that “all we did was get them out of their house. The brothers flew from there.”

Another officer commented that a nurse from the Coordinating Center told him that women desperately ate the food that a nurse gave them. They ate with their hands because, according to the testimony, the victims did not know how to use the cutlery.

The police could not return the victims to their homes, because they would again expose them to their perpetrators. As it was not a judicial case, the troops chose to transfer them to the Pereira Rossell Hospital. The women were admitted to the Women's Hospital, part of Pereira Rossell, where children under the age of 13 and the women's mother also went, where they remain in detention.

“The two patients were taken to the Women's Hospital. They were given the attention they needed through an interdisciplinary team. They're judicialized. It's a very complex situation. They are two patients who were obviously in extreme conditions and that is why they were taken by a police mobile phone to the hospital,” said Risa Suárez, director of the health center.

She commented that in her career she had never witnessed women in such vulnerable conditions because, in addition to the physical and sexual violence to which they were exposed, they had signs of malnutrition, hygiene problems and poor ability to communicate with others.

A multidisciplinary team of professionals, including a general practitioner, a gynecologist, a psychiatrist and a psychologist, is currently working with women.

Due to the state of shock, they were still unable to testify before the Sixth Turn Sexual Offences Prosecutor's Office. The neighbouring witness, for her part, decided not to file a criminal complaint so as not to suffer any questions in her neighborhood for collaborating with the police.

Meanwhile, as the investigation has just begun and the prosecutor has not yet requested detention, the abusers are at home.

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