The survivors of Women’s Protection BoardActive institution during Franco and entrusted to some religious congregations, they have not accepted the forgiveness of the Spanish Conference of Religious (confer) in an act in which they have shouted “truth, justice and repair, neither forget or forgiveness“.
In a shout of ten minutes without rest, hundreds of women have shown in high posters in which the word ‘no’ could be read. The images have been given at the Pablo VI Foundation. The president of the confer, Jesús DíazHe said that “in the past” there were things that “did not do well”, with women who were “subject to unfair and painful living conditions.”
Consuelo García, president of the Association of banished Eva daughters, regrets not “felt for a forgiveness from anyone.” Moreover, complaint to confer They have “tried to silence” and have “censored some videos” and an audio of the Trustees suicides considering that “it prompted suicide.” “This is not about the reformatory, right?” He criticizes.
One of the people who entered those reformatories with only 8 years was Mariaje, a woman who was a girl told him that “nothing was worth “and that was” abnormal“It was her own family who requested it, as she tells Lasexta:” My maternal grandmother was the cause of me to end in the orphanage. “
It was 1965 and the Franco regime had more than two decades repressing the girls and young people who moved away from the strict Franco. He admitted all those who considered bad women: to whom they smoked, answered their parents, wore miniskirt or became pregnant.
He took them, by force, centers of the Women’s Protection Board of Trustees and locked them for years. “It was a completely sinister place, with extreme religious indoctrination. Worse than a jail, “says Consuelo, who was already 16 when her mother admitted her.
“My mother and the family’s header enter my room. I couldn’t react, they took my left arm, I felt a needle in my vein and that’s it. I don’t remember anything else“He confesses. The nightmare lasted until 1976. Like them, thousands of women were repressed by the Board of Trustees. The abuse lasted until 1985, only 40 years ago.
