Roxana Moncayo is from Guayaquil and comes from a well-formed home: her parents, brothers, uncles, cousins and grandparents are still married and with no sign of abuse of any kind.
Roxana is the type of woman who was raised with values and principles. Roxana has four siblings who live in the United States and who come to visit them for Mother's Day, Father's Day, and holidays, such as Christmas and New Years.
The five siblings are the types of siblings who, love each other and their family, because they are everything to them. Despite being far away, they always called to hear from them and to catch up on their things and what each of them does.
Roxana is the type of woman who loves being with her family and shares most of her time with them and the same happens with her friends.
Roxana has seven best friends who are: Antonio, Arturo, Miguel, Romina and Antonia. The eight friends are the types of people who share absolutely everything and have the facility to talk about all kinds of topics.
When they had to go to the University, it was the first time they separated, due to their careers: Antonio, Arturo and Romina are the only ones who are in the same faculty, Faculty of Law because, Antonio wants to be a Prosecutor, Arturo wants to be a Judge and Romina, a Lawyer but, defending women from women´s abusers.
On the other hand, Miguel chose Economics, Antonia, Marketing and Finance, Roberta, Foreign Trade and Roxana, chose languages and courses to be a writer.
Despite being apart, whenever they could, they looked for a way to be together and catch up. Everything was going perfectly; until, Ivo Montecarlo, appeared in Roxana's life, to change everything.
Ivo Montecarlo is Argentine and has Italian descent. Ivo Montecarlo is the type of man who loves to feel superior to others. Ivo Montecarlo is the type of man who loves to trample on others, for not being Argentine - Uruguayan - Paraguayan - Italian.
He is the type of man who, being Argentine-Italian, can denigrate women, as he does. He is the type of man who likes to attract the attention of women and have them worship him, as if he were God.
He is the type of man who likes to humiliate women in every possible way. He is the type of man who enjoys hitting and humiliating his mom.
He is the type of man who, hits his aunts, with the first thing he sees and has close at that moment. Ivo is the type of man who likes to be the center of everyone's attention.
Ivo is the type of man who comes from a well-built home but, without any kind of values. Ivo is the type of man who doesn't like to be nice to women.
Ivo is the type of man who uses women as a hobby. He is the type of man who, he believes himself superior, only because of Italian descent.
He is the type of man who, has the mentality that Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay are the only Anglo-Saxon-Latin countries that serve and that the rest of the Latin countries do not serve.
He is the type of man who, thinks that, Latinos who are neither Argentine nor Uruguayan; far from it, Paraguayans, they are useless.
He is the type of man who disinfects absolutely everything before being used. He is the type of man who thinks that women only serve to serve them.
He is the type of man who thinks that women are God's worst creation, and he is the type of man who thinks women like them and asks to be raped.
He is the type of man who is used to hitting and raping women, when he pleases to do so and he is the type of man who must disinfect everything, even where he sits.
Ivo is the type of person who, every woman would feel safe to have him as a partner and men, as a friend and he is the type of person who hates hanging out with humble people.
Ivo is the type of person who loves to be the center of attention, wherever he goes. All the women were fascinated with him, except for Roxana who, did not pay attention to him, was only dedicated in her studies.
But, little by little, Ivo began to get closer to Roxana, her family and friends, until they became friends.
Ivo began to get involved with Roxana's friends, with her and with the lovers of Roxana's friends and to share intimate and important secrets of each of them.
In a short time, the sixteen, went out together everywhere and were seen together at each party organized by the respective faculties that, people already got used to seeing them together.
Two months later, Ivo and Roxana were already a couple. Both friends and acquaintances and people close to them, began to congratulate them and told Roxana that "a better match than him, he could not have found anywhere"
Before they decided to be a couple, Roxana's family already adored Ivo; instead, the same could not be said for Ivo's family.
One of Ivo's sisters-in-law told Roxana the following: "Run away while you can from this hell. These pigs don't know what morality means and respect the dignity of women."
One of Ivo's aunts said to Roxana the following: "Run away from this hell, dear girl because these degenerates think that women are only good for being beaten and for raping and prostituting us."
During her stay in that house, Roxana heard several women belonging to that family warn her not to be with Ivo, to flee from that hell but, Roxana, since she was very much in love with Ivo, decided to ignore it.
The only thing that the maternal grandmother said to Roxana was the following: "Darling, only time will tell, whether or not we are wrong to warn you about them and tell you to run away"
Roxana didn't say anything to Ivo about the warnings from his family, telling him to flee from her side while he can because, she preferred to think that they were wrong about Ivo.
Roxana, decided to forget their warnings and continue with her life, as if none of that had happened. After six years of dating, they decide that it is time to get married.
Everyone was happy, because of the decision they had made; except for, some of the women from Ivo's family who were afraid that the same thing would happen to her and that many women who were before her.
Both Ivo and Roxana's parents decided to throw the house out the window; due to, the marriage of Roxana and Ivo. As for the honeymoon, they toured all of Italy, taking photos and had the pleasure of taking some rides on the Gondola.
Upon returning, Roxana's parents had already bought the house for them and a good position for Ivo, who was grateful to them for that gesture of kindness that his in-laws have with him.
Roxana, she would see shortly, like the words of those women, she would remember them shortly and that moment came, after a year.
It was night and Roxana had arrived at the house she shared with Ivo, her husband, tired from working so hard, all she wanted was to sleep; but, Ivo, he wanted to have relations with his wife.
"I don't want Ivo, I'm tired," she told him, as she went to the bathroom to bathe.
"Every time I ask you to make love, you always tell me that you're tired and I'm sick of hearing that," Ivo said, really annoyed and raising the tone of his voice.
"But, I'm really tired," Roxana replied, trying to calm her husband.
Ivo, fed up with the excuses that Roxana made him, to be with him, rapes her savagely but first, it hits her.
While that was happening, like "Deja vu", the warnings of some of the women in Ivo's family came to mind and again, she tried to downplay it.
During that savagery, Roxana was fighting with Ivo so that he would not rape her but in vain. During this situation, she kept screaming, asking for help and asking Ivo to leave her alone, not to rape her.
The neighbors, hearing that, decided to go to the couple's house, to see if everything was okay but, no one answered him.
They waited a few more minutes and when they heard nothing, they returned to their respective homes.
The reason why they did not hear anything is due to Ivo who managed to cover his wife's mouth in time; so that, no one would suspect anything about them.
When Ivo felt that they went to their respective homes, he continued to rape her savagely and brutally.
When Ivo finished, he got dressed and said the following: "You asked for it for not giving me what I was asking for", after that, he left, leaving her on the bathroom floor, covered in blood.
Once Ivo left, Roxana started crying. She felt disgusted, looked down upon as a woman, felt inferior to other women, and felt worse, after bathing, she saw her body.
When she saw her body, she began to cry incessantly and it is no wonder; since, her body was covered in all kinds of bruises: from bites to blows.
And not only that; furthermore, she saw blood on the floor and on his body. To end the horror scenario, she saw that she had a bruise on his left eye.
She knelt on the floor and began to cry uncontrollably. She really didn't know what to do or who to turn to and all he could do was take a bath, put on pajamas and go to sleep.
Roxana slept early that she did not want to wait for Ivo to return home.
The next day, Roxana woke up and in the midst of the pain, she managed to perceive a rich smell that she did not know where it came from.
When she managed to wake up, she saw that, next to her, Ivo, with a beautiful bouquet of flowers and with a face of regret.
"Good morning babe. I brought you these flowers. Forgive me, I don't know what happened to me yesterday, will you forgive me?" Ivo said this, as he handed her the bouquet.
Roxana, seeing how sorry Ivo was, for what happened last night, decided to forgive him and in return, Ivo promised that what happened last night would never happen again.
The whole month, the two of them were as if they were in full honeymoon but soon things would change again and for the worse.
One day Ivo went home drunk with some friends. Roxana was surprised to see that Ivo came home with his friends who were also drunk; then, Roxana asked Ivo if his friends would stay or if they left and Ivo replied that they would stay.
Everything was going well; until Ivo called her to share with her friends; which, Roxana, agreed to share with her friends and was surprised to see that there were only men and not women.
After an hour, Ivo told Roxana to take off her clothes because her friends wanted to see her naked.
Roxana politely declined, although inside, she wanted to scream because of what her husband had told her.
She did not agree because, she recalled how her parents had raised and educated her and her brothers: they educated and raised them with morals and principles.
Ivo, annoyed and transformed into a beast, along with his friends, grabbed Roxana and began to beat and rape her all night.
During this savagery, Ivo told Roxana the following: "This is you for being a bitch"
The poor thing, how she fought so they wouldn't rape her but in vain. After they finished raping her, they left, leaving her lying on the frozen floor, with bruises and bites all over her body, blood on the living room floor, her right eye black and unconscious.
Roxana, waited until everyone left her house, to try to get up and try to get to her room.
Back in her room, she couldn't take it anymore and wept inconsolably. She remembered the warnings of some of the women in Ivo's family, when they told him the following: "Run away while you can from this hell.
These pigs, they don't know what morality means and respect the dignity of women."
One of Ivo's aunts said to Roxana the following: "Run away from this hell, dear girl because these degenerates think that women are only good for being beaten and for raping and prostituting us."
Roxana saw herself in the mirror and said the following to herself: "You were warned and you ignored" "That makes you stupid, for believing in him"
While she was bathing, the blood began to come out in heaps, she would not stop crying, screaming because of how upset she was and at that moment she felt that her life is no longer worth anything.
When she came out of the bathroom, she saw her phone and had a voicemail from Ivo saying the following: "If you don't keep quiet, I'll kill your parents. If they listen to you, it's your fault."
After hearing that voicemail, Roxana was really scared and didn't know what to do.
Nervous, she returned to the bathroom; in which, he was very scared because in the bathtub, she saw her son dead, in the middle of the bloody water.
She cried and screamed hysterically because she didn't know what to do anymore. First, the threat from Ivo and now, the consequences of the beatings and rape, by Ivo and his friends, which is the abortion of his son who, she did not know existed.
After a while, she managed to calm down, but, not completely and the only thing he could do was get rid of the inert body of her son, putting it in a garbage bag and decided not to tell his family anything about what had happened today.
For the next two weeks, Roxana began avoiding Ivo, arriving home extremely late after work.
Ivo, noticing Roxana's absence and having a perfect idea that she was avoiding him, became too enraged that he couldn't and didn't know how to control himself.
What Roxana didn't know is the hell that awaited her when she got home. Roxana entered her house, not suspecting the hell that awaited her, once inside her.
Without asking anything, Ivo grabbed Roxana and began to beat her, trample her, mistreat her, rape her and disfigure her face with his fists.
During this unprecedented savagery, Ivo said the following to his wife: "By the time it's over, nobody will love you. I'm going to split you" and continued with that hell.
The scene was heartbreaking because, during that savagery, Roxana would not stop screaming; far from running to try to stay away from Ivo.
Every step that Roxana took, being away from Ivo, was in vain because Ivo always took her and beat her again, trampled on her, mistreated her, raped her and disfigured her face with his fists but each time it was worse than the other.
And to complete the picture, he also bit her everywhere. Every time Ivo bit her, the poor thing screamed in pain and for help. As he did so, she wouldn't stop crying.
When the neighbors heard the screams, they immediately went to their house to see what was happening; but this time, Ivo did not cover his wife's mouth because no one could enter or leave the house; because Ivo completely changed the security and alarms of the house.
Regardless of the effort of the neighbors to knock on the door, no one answered, far from it, you could hear something, because of what was happening at that time.
After a few minutes, the police came and tried to open the door; but in vain. That hell lasted two days; days in which they were hellish for poor Roxana.
When Ivo finished with that because, he felt exhausted and without strength to continue, he got dressed and while he was doing it, he told Roxana the following: "This happens to you for not being at home and for being with your friends' whores"
"From now on, you stay locked up at home, so that you are not wasting your time with the lazy of your friends and the pimps of your family and without any type of telephone," he said as he left his room.
Ivo achieved what he wanted and that is to keep Roxana away from her family and friends so that they do not tell them anything about what was happening between them.
Despair, fear, hatred and fear, took hold of Roxana but, she was not going to let those feelings take hold of her because, first, she had to heal her own wounds.
Roxana managed to heal herself from her wounds that, it was hard for her to feel something good, after that savagery.
After everything Roxana has been through so far, she knew she had to put an end to that hell; consequently, she had to get out of that toxic marriage.
One night, while Ivo was asleep, Roxana couldn't take it anymore, she went to the kitchen, took a knife and cut off his penis.
Ivo, seeing what Roxana was doing to him, wakes up, screaming from the immense pain he was feeling at that moment.
Roxana leaves, taking his penis with her. In the middle of the road, Roxana throws the penis and walks away from the place.
Meanwhile, Ivo calls the police and denounces Roxana for cutting off his penis and after that, she calls the hospital, so they can send an ambulance to her house.
When the ambulance arrives, the paramedics help Ivo out of the house and into the ambulance.
They take him in an emergency because, Ivo entered fainted, losing so much blood.
The police looked everywhere for Ivo's penis and without any sign; until a person who was passing by the place where Roxana had thrown the penis, found it.
The police immediately went to the scene, picked up the penis and put it in a cooler to keep it in good condition. Upon arriving at the hospital, the police give the penis to the doctors; so that, they can start the surgery.
The penile reconstruction surgery took several hours and finished the surgery overnight.
After hearing that the surgery was successful, the police came out to capture Roxana.
What they did not know is that Roxana was hidden in the same hospital that Ivo was.
Roxana, started looking for Ivo and found him. When it was in front of her, Roxana took a scalpel and destroyed Ivo's penis.
Ivo wouldn't stop screaming in pain and since he was screaming loudly, Roxana decided it was time to leave the hospital.
She managed to get out of the hospital, without anyone being able to see her and she was missing for a week; until she realized that this is not the life she really wanted to live.
The only thing Roxana could do is turn herself in to the police and relate what really happened since she married Ivo until she decided to mutilate him.
The police listened carefully to Roxana's entire account and after that, they proceeded to imprison her.
In the trial that was held against Roxana for what she did to her husband and Ivo for domestic violence, there was a lot of controversy about it.
Immediately, both lawyers presented their witnesses and each of them testified what they could observe of the conduct and behavior of the two.
After having heard both parties with their respective witnesses, the jury had reached a unanimous verdict: Roxana, is free of all guilt and what she did was in self-defense.
As for Ivo, they found him guilty and gave him forty years in prison and no bail.
After that, Roxana along with her family, for Guayaquil, to start from scratch.
Roxana had told her parents that she wanted to go to a place that is dealing with the mistreatment of Roxana's wife and mother who, had already investigated about it, had suggested to her daughter the following Institution "MAM" which means " Women contributing women ".
Roxana accepted and they immediately went there. Roxana, it took more than ten years to fully recover; but, she still has memories of what was once her marriage to Ivo.
Even though she was recovering, there is always something inside her that did not make her feel like a complete woman.
As for Ivo, family and friends, they were never seen again.