17 suffered premature menopause and many physical ailments. The vast majority of the medications that she needed was supplied by her family; only a few were supplied by the prison facility. Her family also supplied her with food, supplies for personal hygiene, clothing and material with which to sew. She was given no type of rehabilitation while in prison; quite the contrary, for the first three years, she was in cellblock “A” where she was allowed to participate in one workshop and take two hours of sun each day. Thereafter, once her case was brought to the Inter-American Court, she was transferred to cellblock “C” as punishment. There the system was one of absolute confinement. She was released on October 17, 1997, thanks to the Judgment delivered the Court. By that time she had come to believe that she would never be released, as she was subjected to constant harassment for being a professional, for refusing to have sexual relations with the guards, and for maintaining good conduct. Once she was out of prison, she was unable to be reinstated in her former positions. She is not working and is receiving psychological and psychiatric treatment in Santiago, Chile, paid by “FASIC”. She feels very estranged from her children, who by now have grown up. The communication between them is no longer the same. She lost the opportunity to be with them during the most important phase of their growth and development. She had never seen her granddaughter until she was released from prison. While she was incarcerated, her family paid for her children’s educational expenses and necessities. The expenses of the Court proceedings in Peru and with the Inter-American Commission were paid by her sister Carolina Loayza, who, with Ariel Dulitzky, is her attorney. 72. Because Ms. Loayza-Tamayo is the victim in the instant Case and has an immediate interest in it, her testimony cannot be weighed separately; instead, it must be weighed with the full body of evidence in this case. However, it is important to recall that the facts in the instant Case were already established during the merits phase. At this stage of the proceedings, the Court will determine the nature and amount of the “fair compensation” and the expenses that the State will be required to reimburse to the victim and her next of kin, pursuant to operative paragraph 6 of the Court’s judgment. 73. In this sense, the victim’s testimony has unique import, as she is the one who can provide the most information concerning the consequences of the wrongful acts of which she was the victim. That being the case, the testimony in question will be added to the body of evidence in the instant case, and will be later weighed. EXPERT EVIDENCE 74. As evidence to help it arrive at a more informed judgment, on August 29, 1998, the Court requested that the Colegio Médico de Chile issue a report on the victim’s physical and psychiatric condition and that the Colegio Médico del Perú issue one on her children’s psychiatric condition. 75. On October 7, 1998, the Court received the forensic medical expert’s report on the victim’s health, prepared by Dr. Roberto von Bennewitz on instructions from the "Colegio Médico de Chile". Dr. von Bennewitz wrote down his observations of the victim’s physical and psychiatric injuries and included a section on the correlation between the injuries present and the specific means of torture to which the victim would have been subjected and her “prognosis from the injury”. The Court transcribes below the pertinent part of the expert’s findings: