23 suffered these accusations regarding Walter David by a State attorney during a hearing at a courtroom. She regrets very much having had to come before the Court, as she would have preferred if things had been solved in her country. She asked the Court, insofar as possible, to do something so that what happened to her son will not happen to any other youth. All she wants is “justice, nothing more.” b) Expert opinion of Graciela Marisa Guilis, a psychologist, Coordinator of the mental health team and a member of the Mental Health Team of the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales on torture during the dictatorship. The expert witness referred to the impact of the events suffered by Walter David Bulacio on the household. At the time of the facts, Walter’s family had a traditional structure. His death caused a disruption which established “a before and an after in the form of existence of this family.” When someone loses a spouse, he is called a widower; when someone loses a father or a mother, he is called an orphan, but there are no names, in any language, to call someone who suffers the death of a child. Only in Hebrew is there a term that characterizes this situation, and that is “chacol”, the closest translation of which is the idea of a dejectedness of the soul. This is the only name given to a father or mother regarding the death of a child, and this is the catastrophic dimension of Walter David’s death for his parents. There is clearly mourning in the case of parents regarding the death of their children, but the component of State intervention, in this case, affected the type of mourning and the situation of the family. The State is supposed to be a guarantor, or a third party to whom one can appeal in the “social contract between the citizens and State institutions.” In face of an intrusion by the State, the family’s subjectivity is affected, that is, their life projects and, ultimately, their sense of belonging to that social space is affected, with the attendant psychological damage. This is why “only the State can return justice [and] a place in society to these next of kin,” by answering basic questions which any relative asks in a normal grieving process, such as: “how did it happen?,” “who was responsible?,” “under what circumstances did it occur?” Otherwise, the next of kin take upon themselves a feeling of guilt regarding the death of their beloved one. With respect to Walter David’s image, the family also endured suspicions that because he was an adolescent he was involved in alcoholism, drug addition or altered sexual behavior, allegations that were ultimately disproven. According to the expert witness, she observed various effects in all members of the family, both in their bodies and in their psyche. Since 1996, due to obstruction of the investigation of what happened and lack of a judgment, all indicators and signs shown by the members of the household grew dramatically and their pathologies worsened. Furthermore, loss of their jobs was due to “the subjective conditions they were undergoing and [...] the burden this meant in their existence.” With respect to Lorena Beatriz Bulacio, Walter David Bulacio’s sister, the expert witness pointed out that she was 14 at the time her brother died. The next year, Lorena Beatriz suffered a serious pattern of bulimia that persisted throughout almost all her adolescence; beginning in 1996, at age 19, she attempted suicide twice and

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