16 "women were affected by the acts of violence in a different way than men; (…) some acts of violence were directed specifically toward them and other affected them in a greater proportion than they affected men." (para. 223) Besides, the present case seems to reveal that the perception itself of the passing of time may not be the same for men and women. 60. The present case of the Castro Castro Prison reveals an approximation between psychological time and biological time, put in evidence by something sacred that has been violated in the present case: the project as well as the experience of maternity. Maternity, which must be surrounded by special cares, respect, and acknowledgment, throughout life and in the afterlife, was violated in the present case in a brutal form and on a truly inter-temporal scale. 61. First of all, there was the extreme pre-natal violence, put in evidence in the brutalities to which pregnant women were submitted in the Prison of Castro Castro, described in the present Judgment (paras. 197(57), 292, and 298). Which have been the consequences of this situation of extreme violence in the mind – or the subconscious – of the children born from the a mother’s womb so disrespected and violated, even before their birth? 62. There was then the extreme violence in the experience itself of maternity, when facing the brutality perpetrated against their children. In the aforementioned public hearing before this Court in the present case of the Castro Castro Prison, a mother (Mrs. Julia Peña Castillo), a witness in the case, described it with eloquence: "(...) On June 06, 1992, who speaks is the mother of many children (...), (...) my mother’s instinct was more than for the house, for more than just cooking, I left everything behind (…). When I arrived there [at Castro Castro] there was more than just the press, (…) there were many soldiers, there were trucks going in and others coming out, (…) there I started screaming, (…) screaming and saying: - ‘what are you doing, my children my children’! It was the first thing reflected in my words, my children. (...) (...) There many of us mothers hugged, we hugged strongly because the roars of the cannon reached out hearts. Each roar represented a very strong pain because you could see the splinters flying from the pavilions. (…) There was a mother next to me, I hugged her and she told me ‘my daughter is alive, my daughter is alive’ (…). Hearing her got me very excited. Later that day the situation was worse, you could no longer hear voices, just shots fired from what sounded like a machine gun or a long weapon (…), you could hear it and then it would stop, and then on the other side again. (…) The gunshots continued. We stayed there all night, we did not know anything, who was dead, who was injured, how many had died, nothing because they did not give us any information. Even the police officers that came out (…). They did not give us any type of information (…). (…) They were not interested." 51 63. In even another dimension, many of the women who survived the bombing of the Prison of Castro Castro – as has been stated in this Concurring Opinion (para. 13, supra) – have not been able to be mothers yet, since, as stated in the public hearing in the cas d'espèce before this Court, they have since then used all their existential time in searching for truth and justice. Thus, we are facing here a maternity that has been denied or postponed (a damage to a life project), forced upon them by the cruel circumstances, as claimed with all pertinence by the common intervener of the representatives of the victims and their next of kin (supra). 64. And, in the dimension of the after-life, the experience of maternity has also been seriously affected. It has been well illustrated in the desperate search, in the . IACHR, Transcription of the Public Hearing..., op. cit. supra n. (9), pp. 41-43 (internal circulation). 51