forced her to write “letters” and “things on photographs” that she had in her purse,22 that he hit her “day after day [...] giving [her] pills,” “with his hands, with his feet,” “with his shoes,” he raped her “three or four times per day” without even “respecting” her periods, he forced her to cook for him and to stay naked, he threatened to kill her family and told the neighbors who noticed Linda’s condition that they were having “domestic issues” and were working them out.23 56. Linda Loaiza López said that in Sucre, she was also taken to a hotel in the city of Cumaná where the attacker only registered himself and snuck her into the room, forcing her to wear a long sleeve shirt, hat, and his dark glasses.24 Linda Loaiza López said that on that day, they entered the room and “[...] he started to hit me, he raped me, I was bleeding, I told him to take me to the doctor, and he said no, that he wouldn’t be able to explain to a doctor how I had my vagina all torn up [...]”25 57. She also testified during the domestic criminal proceeding that her attacker’s father, knew about what was happening. She stated that when she had “very serious bruising,” Luis Carrera Almoina “didn’t know what to do” and called his father, “he told him that my ear was inflamed and the father told him to take out the blood with a syringe and he stuck it in and took out the blood and dispose of it in the sink [...].” She said that when she returned to the city of Caracas, they went to the apartment of Luis Carrera Almoina’s father, and he told his son “that some people were calling his house and he told them that it was [her] family wanting to know what happened to [her].”26 58. During the hearing on the merits before the IACHR and the domestic criminal proceeding, Linda Loaiza López stated that: [After I was taken to the state of Sucre for] a month and a half of this violence, I was taken again to the city of Caracas to the same hotel [Aventura], where I stayed for several days, and thanks to help from the attacker’s father, he was able to rent an apartment in the eastern part of Caracas, to which I was moved in the early hours of the morning […] There […] the violence from the attacker continued. The attacker had access to a computer connected to the Internet through which he was able to access pornographic videos. He forced me to perform what was practiced on those videos, the violence there was constant, my jaw was broken, it was fractured in three places, every time he hit me with his closed fist he told me, in my mouth, that it was his father’s hand that was hitting me, he told me he had a powerful family and lots of friends and that he would never go to jail, that there were eight victims he had [...] kidnapped and abused the same as me, and he even showed me pictures of them [...] and they were not taken as evidence during the investigation.27 22 During the domestic criminal proceeding, Linda Loaiza López recognized a series of documents included in the case file as evidence at the request of the defense of Luis Carrera Almoina and identified them as the ones she wrote, “against her will and under threat with a pistol to the head.” See: Annex 4. Decision of the Twentieth First Instance Trial Tribunal of the Caracas Metropolitan Area. Case No. 20.-253. November 5, 2004. Statement of Linda Loaiza López Soto, pgs. 118-119. Annex D of the brief from the petitioners, July 14, 2009. 23 Annex 4. Decision of the Twentieth First Instance Trial Tribunal of the Caracas Metropolitan Area. Case No. 20.-253. November 5, 2004. Statement of Linda Loaiza López Soto, pgs. 114-115, 122. Annex D of the brief from the petitioners, July 14, 2009. 24 The petitioners provided a registration card from the Hotel Minerva under the name of Luis Antonio Carrera A, with the check-in date of May 2001 (the day is illegible) and check-out date of May 13, 2001. Annex 9. Hotel Minerva registration card. Annex “11 Varios 2005 05 13 Registro Hotel Minerva” of the brief from the petitioners, June 20, 2014. The documents submitted by the parties indicate that this card was submitted as evidence during the domestic criminal proceeding. 25 Annex 4. Decision of the Twentieth First Instance Trial Tribunal of the Caracas Metropolitan Area. Case No. 20.-253. November 5, 2004. Statement of Linda Loaiza López Soto, pg. 115. Annex D of the brief from the petitioners, July 14, 2009. 26 Annex 4. Decision of the Twentieth First Instance Trial Tribunal of the Caracas Metropolitan Area. Case No. 20.-253. November 5, 2004. Statement of Linda Loaiza López Soto, pg. 115. Annex D of the brief from the petitioners, July 14, 2009. 27 Hearing on the Merits No. 17, Case of Linda Loaiza López Soto and relatives (Venezuela), 154th Period of Sessions, March 2015. Statement of Linda Loaiza López Soto. Available at: http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/multimedia/sesiones/154/default.asp