11 kicks, electric shocks and psychological torture. She did not receive food or water. On the ninth day of her detention, October 5, 1981, she had lost so much weight that she was able to slip off the handcuffs and escape by the window; Concerning the disappearance of Marco Antonio Molina Theissen 40(10) On October 6, 1981, two individuals armed with automatic weapons entered the home of the Molina Theissen family, located on 6th Avenue, No. 2-35, Zone 19, Colonia La Florida, in Guatemala City, and a third person remained on watch outside the residence. The child, Marco Antonio Molina Theissen was in the house, together with his mother, Emma Theissen Álvarez. One of the individuals shackled Marco Antonio, tied him to the arm of a chair, and gagged him with a piece of masking tape. The other person hit Emma Theissen Álvarez and tried to lock her up in one of the rooms of the house; 40(11) The individuals searched the Molina Theissen family’s home. When they had completed the search, they took the child, Marco Antonio Molina Theissen, put him in a nylon sack and threw him into the back of a green pick-up with official license plate 17675. Emma Theissen Álvarez was able to get out of the house and she ran after the vehicle, although she was unable to do anything. This was the last time she saw her son; 40(12) The detention and subsequent forced disappearance of Marco Antonio Molina Theissen was carried out by the Guatemalan army, presumably as a reprisal for the escape of his sister, Emma Guadalupe Molina Theissen, from the “Manuel Lisandro Barillas” Military Barracks, and to punish a family they considered to be an “enemy”; Concerning the family of Marco Antonio Molina Theissen 40(13) The family of Marco Antonio Molina Theissen was forced to leave Guatemala, as follows: 40(13)(i) Following her escape, Emma Guadalupe Molina Theissen did not see her family again as a measure of mutual protection. Her parents did not inform her immediately of what had happened to her brother, Marco Antonio Molina Theissen, to avoid her giving herself up to the army in an attempt to get him back. On January 16, 1982, Emma Guadalupe Molina Theissen left Guatemala for exile in Mexico: 40(13)(ii) As a result of the assassination of her husband, Héctor Hugo Alvarado Chuga, on February 27, 1984, María Eugenia Molina Theissen requested asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy for herself, her two daughters, and her parents, Carlos Augusto Molina Palma and Emma Theissen Álvarez, on March 23, 1984. On March 31, 1984, they arrived in Ecuador with refugee status; 40(13)(iii) Ana Lucrecia Molina Theissen left for Mexico with her 11month old son on November 26, 1984; 40(13)(iv) In July 1985, Emma Guadalupe Molina Theissen and her daughter, who was born in Mexico, went to live in Costa Rica.