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With regard to the next of kin of María Teresa De La Cruz Flores
73(56) The next of kin of María Teresa De La Cruz Flores are: Ana Teresa
and Danilo Blanco De La Cruz, her children;91 Alcira Domitila Flores Rosas
widow of De La Cruz, her mother;92 Alcira Isabel, Celso Fernando and Jorge
Alfonso De La Cruz Flores, her siblings.93
73(57) The next of kin of Mrs. De La Cruz Flores suffered emotional and
financial difficulties owing to her detention, as a result of the charges of
terrorism against their mother, daughter and sibling. These included:94
a)
Her mother, who was 80 years of age when María Teresa De La
Cruz Flores was detained, had to take charge of her grandchildren at
first and, to a great extent, has assumed the efforts and sacrifices
arising from her daughter’s situation;
b)
Her sister, Alcira, had to interrupt her studies in Brazil to
assume a more active role in her defense, and to share the work of
rearing and educating her children with her mother;
c)
Her next of kin, who visited her in the prison, were subjected to
humiliations and difficulties to be able to see her and communicate
with her;
d)
Her family have suffered severe financial difficulties: her
mother has had to maintain her children on a retirement pension, and
her siblings, Alcira Isabel, Jorge Alfonso and Celso Fernando, have
collaborated financially insofar as possible to pay the family’s
expenses, including many relating to the education of the alleged
victim’s children;
e)
Her brother, Jorge Alfonso De La Cruz Flores, who worked in
the same institution as Mrs. De La Cruz Flores, was prevented from
working in Lima near his family;
91
Cf. birth certificate of Ana Teresa Blanco De la Cruz (file of appendixes to the brief with requests
and arguments, appendix 22, folios 579 and 580); and birth certificate of Danilo Alfredo Blanco De la Cruz
(file of appendixes to the brief with requests and arguments, appendix 22, folios 581 and 582).
92
Cf. identity document of Alcira Domitila Flores Rosas, widow of De la Cruz (file of appendixes to
the brief with requests and arguments, appendix 23, folio 584); and sworn written statement made by
María Teresa De la Cruz Flores on May 28, 2004, before notary public (file of appendixes to the brief
answering the application and affidavits, folios 808 to 818).
93
Cf. identity document of Alcira Isabel De la Cruz Flores (file of appendixes to the brief with
requests and arguments, appendix 23, folio 585); sworn written statement made by María Teresa De la
Cruz Flores on May 28, 2004, before notary public (file of appendixes to the brief answering the
application and affidavits, folios 808 to 818); identity document of Celso Fernando De la Cruz Flores (file
of appendixes to the brief with requests and arguments, appendix 24, folios 587 and 588); and identity
document of Jorge Alfonso De la Cruz Flores (file of appendixes to the brief with requests and arguments,
folios 589 and 590).
94
Cf. sworn written statement made by María Teresa De la Cruz Flores on May 28, 2004, before
notary public (file of appendixes to the brief answering the application and affidavits, folios 808 to 818);
sworn statement made by Jorge Alfonso De la Cruz on August 1, 2004 (file of appendixes to the final
written arguments, appendix 10 to the final written arguments of the alleged victim’s representatives,
folio 1135).
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