34 129. Based on the information received, its own case law and the facts proven, the Court determines that the compensation for pecuniary damages in the instant case shall include the following: a) A sum corresponding to the salaries that the victim ceased to receive between the time she was detained and the date of the present Judgment. To compute the amount in question, the Court finds that at the time of her detention, the victim was receiving a combined salary of S/592.61 (five hundred ninety-two and sixty-one/one hundredths soles), which when calculated on the basis of the average of the selling and buying exchange rates in effect as of that date, yields a total of US$339.60 (three hundred and thirty-nine United States dollars and sixty cents). The calculation will be made on the basis of 12-monthly salaries per year, plus a bonus of two months’ salary for each year. The interest accruing up to the date of this Judgment will be added and, as the victim requested, no deduction whatever will be made for personal expenses, since, as the victim is alive, it must be concluded that either she or members of her family paid for those expenses for the period in question using other means. Consequently, the total for this item is US$32,690.30 (thirty-two thousand six hundred ninety United States dollars and thirty cents); b) A sum for the victim’s medical expenses during her incarceration, since the Court considers that there is sufficient evidence to show that the corresponding ailments began during her confinement, a fact not refuted by the State. The evidence presented to support the figure given by the victim for this item is not conclusive and, for the sake of equity, the Court considers the proper course of action to be to award the sum of US$1,000.00 (one thousand United States dollars) for medical expenses; c) A sum corresponding to the travel expenses incurred by the next of kin to visit the victim during her incarceration. For equity’s sake, the Court believes US$500.00 (five hundred United States dollars) is an appropriate award for these expenses; and d) An amount corresponding to the future medical expenses of the victim and her children, since the Court finds there is sufficient evidence to show that her ailments began during the victim’s confinement, a fact not disproved by the State. For the sake of equity the Court considers US$15,000.00 (fifteen thousand United States dollars) a fitting sum for the victim, and US$5,000.00 (five thousand United States dollars) for each of her children. 130. On the other hand, the Court is dismissing the victim’s claims for compensation of expenses to purchase groceries, articles of personal hygiene and toiletries, materials with which to do hand work, clothing, shoes, and the education of her children, expenses that were said to have been defrayed, at least in part, by some members of her family. The Court finds that it has been shown that prior to her incarceration, the victim was paying those expenses with her own funds and would have had to pay those expenses even if she had not been incarcerated. Therefore, the reparation ordered for lost earnings also implicitly includes the expenses herein described. 131. The Court is also denying the claim seeking payment of an amount for the income that Ms. Carolina Loayza-Tamayo was alleged to have lost by being forced to

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