[While in the apartment in Caracas] he inserted a whisky bottle in my anus and vagina, he liked all of this, he laughed, he thought it was all great what he was doing, while I was suffering so much because of everything he was doing to me, he hit me more often, he put out cigarettes on my face, he burned me with lighters, he hit me all the time, [...] one time when a person came to do I don’t know what with him, he handcuffed and tied me and stuck me in the closet, the day before he made me take a rag and disinfectant and clean every corner of that apartment, he humiliated me, he beat me with broomsticks, [...] he called room service and ate whatever he wanted, and when he felt like it he gave me leftovers and I had to eat them to survive, [...] every day he was constantly giving me pills that he forced me to take [...] I had to take them to survive […] every time [he left the apartment] he handcuffed me, tied me up, and told me that I had to tell my sister that she had to withdraw the complaint […] after several days […] of raping me, torturing me, [...] always with his pistol pointed at me [...] he’s taller and stronger than me, in the El Rosal (sic) apartment, the torture grew worse, the humiliations, he felt good, he was happy, but if I wanted to go to the bathroom I had to beg him to take me to the bathroom [...]28 4. Rescue of Linda Loaiza López Soto, reunion with her family, and physical and psychological injuries suffered 59. The testimony of Linda Loaiza López indicates that on July 19, 2001, she heard her attacker tell his father over the telephone that “she no longer satisfied him, to get some garbage bags” to get her out of the apartment. As she tells it, “[…] he saw [she] was extremely weak and [her] health was in very poor condition and this time he did not tie [her] or handcuff her before leaving.” Linda said she took a sheet, hung it from a window, and began calling for help to people nearby the building.29 60. According to the police report from the Services Section of the Operations Division of the Municipal Police of Chacao, at approximately 7 in the evening on July 19, 2001, two officers patrolling the El Rosal neighborhood in Caracas answered a call to go to Residencias 27 on Avenida Sojo “because on the second floor, apartment 2-A, a person was heard shouting for help.” The report indicates that the officials saw Linda Loaiza López on the balcony of the apartment and that “bruising could be seen on her face and she appeared to be intending to jump.”30 According to the testimony of Officer Giovanny Chicco Salas, he had to climb up to enter the apartment because the door was locked and Linda Loaiza said she did not have the key. The officer said that she was naked, “very dehydrated,” “terrified,” and from the very first moment she said she had been “kidnapped” by Luis Carrera Almoina,31 saying he was “armed and wanted to kill her,” and therefore asked him to take her away immediately.32 28 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. 116. Annex D of the brief from the petitioners, July 14, 2009. 29 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. 116. Annex D of the brief from the petitioners, July 14, 2009; and 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 30 Police Report of July 19, 2001, No. 2001-1540 of the Services Section of the Operations Division of the Municipal Police of Chacao, state of Miranda, signed by Officer Giovanni Chicco Salas. Cited in the brief of the State of October 22, 2014, pg. 3, and Annex 4. Decision of the Twentieth First Instance Trial Tribunal of the Caracas Metropolitan Area. Case No. 20.-253. November 5, 2004, pg. 130. Annex D of the brief from the petitioners, July 14, 2009. 31 The report states that Linda López said she was kidnapped by citizen LUIS CARRERA, HER HUSBAND [...].” Linda López stated during the domestic criminal proceeding that she had not called him “husband” (marido) but rather “accursed” (maldito). See: Annex 4. Decision of the Twentieth First Instance Trial Tribunal of the Caracas Metropolitan Area. Case No. 20.-253. November 5, 2004, pg. 130. Annex D of the brief from the petitioners, July 14, 2009. 32 During the domestic criminal proceeding, the officer stated the following: “[...] what I noticed were her lips, because it was like someone had ripped them off, [...] in the eight years I’ve been [a police officer] I’ve seen injuries, but not like these. It is one of the most upsetting cases I’ve seen. In my opinion, if this person had been in there for one more day she wouldn’t have come out alive [...].”Annex 4. Decision of the Twentieth First Instance Trial Tribunal of the Caracas Metropolitan Area. Case No. 20.-253. November 5, 2004. Statement of Officer Giovanny José Chicco Salas, pg. 128. Annex D of the brief from the petitioners, July 14, 2009.