Spanish Girl Records Father When Authorities Don’t Believe He’s Been Sexually Abusing Her

A brave 9-year-old girl from Spain decided to take matters into her own hands when her father kept sexually abusing her and authorities didn’t believe her. The minor first complained in 2014, when she was rushed to the pediatrician because she felt burning when urinating. When asked how long that had been going on, the little girl replied “Since dad stuck his nail in me.” She continue to reveal that her father, who is divorced from her mom, would “tickle” her on the genitals and that she didn’t like it.

In August 2014, after several tests showed traces of vaginal infection, the minor went back to the emergency room with the same symptoms after spending 10 days with her father. The medical diagnosis was “suspected sexual abuse.” That’s when the girl’s case caught child protection’s eye. After being interrogated by doctors, police, forensics and judges, who asked the young girl to re-tell what her father did to her over and over again, her case was filed in January for lack of evidence.

The parents’ relationship, that was already damaged, suffered even more, with increasing fights over custody and the mother refusing to let her girl go with her father on the days he was supposed to take her. On one particular occasion, the girl’s mother showed up in school on the day her father was set to pick her up and refused to let the kid go. The school got involved and called the police, who tried to mediate the situation. “I’d rather see her dead to not seeing her at all because this is unbearable,” the father allegedly said, according to Spanish publication El País.

Police then told the judge who had filed the case what the man had said, but he dismissed that the father would actually try to harm her daughter. “The phrase denotes no intention of causing harm to his daughter,” the judge said. “Predictably, it was caused by despair resulting from the inability to see his daughter and the fact that he was being accused of sexually abusing the child.” Meanwhile, the mother was denied entry to the school on the days her father picks up their daughter to avoid clashes between them. Police was ordered to be there as well to “pave the delivery and collection of the child.”

The last two years have been hell for the 9-year-old, who on June 7 decided she’d had enough and took her mother’s recording device and snuck it in her sock. She ran to the school bathroom and turned it on right before her father picked her up and recoded the following six hours that she spent with her dad and grandparents. She then gave the tape to her mother, who heard it and handed it over to authorities with hopes of reopening the case. Three hours and 42 minutes of the recording had gone by, when a small argument between the girl, her father and her grandparents ensued, resulting in the father asking her: “But when have I ever touched you?” to which his daughter replies “Many times.”

“But honey, I’m only playing with you,” the father says. “The thing is that you can never do that to me. My body is mine,” the little girl argues. “Yes, your body is yours, and when you asked me to stop touching you, I stopped. I was only tickling you and playing with you,” the father added. Then, the grandfather tries to mediate the situation explaining the girl that her father was only touching her there to wash her. “No, no, no, I know why the kid is saying that, I know what she’s talking about,” the father then says. However, the grandpa insists “I’ve washed you too, so it would be the same thing.” “No, she’s not talking about that,” the father repeats. “I know what she’s talking about.”

Eventually the girl yells “Well, then that’s it!” while the grandfather continues to argue that the father was just washing her but then the father interrupts him: “That’s it dad, she’s talking about something else. Talk to her as if she’s a grown up. She is talking about something else.” The whole discussion goes on for about six minutes, until the grandparents try to deviate the minor’s attention to her dolls.

Authorities have the tape and is expected the case to be re-opened.