Justice admitted the change of surname of a woman abused by her father

The Santa Fe Justice admitted the change of paternal surname requested by a 21 -year -old whose father was sentenced last April to 20 years in prison for abusing her for more than a decade, judicial statements reported, who agreed to the request because "theiridentity-personality has been modified and altered in an extreme, violent, devastating way "."I can't continue identifying myself socially with a last name that alludes to my abuser," said B., the 21 -year -old who after accusing her father and achieving a conviction now got a family judge from the Santa Fe city of San Lorenzo admitting the change of the paternal name.The magistrate added that “to the point that, I am convinced, the least analysis that cannot, nor want, nor feel, to identify with who became a parent in his permanent and systematic abuser, during most of hislife".As a consequence of the systematic abuses to which she was subjected, the young woman became pregnant with her father and after denouncing him gave the girl for adoption, indicates the resolution, which is not the first in that matter, since there is a history of adolescents women and menwho requested the change of their last names in cases that would carry that of the abuser or femicide of his mother.In the brief that B.He presented in the court to request the change of the paternal last name for the maternal, sponsored by the General Defender Silvina Raquel Bernardelli, said that "I find that I must start a new battle and in this presentation the beginning".Thus, he requested "change" his last name, "which I cannot avoid for obvious reasons, that every time they name me or that I have to represent myself, I identify me internally and socially with my abuser, with all that this implies".The young woman referred to "a new battle" because the first consisted of being able to tell her mother that she was sexually abused by her father since she was 8 years old, denouncing him and leading him to trial.Last April, a court in the city of San Lorenzo condemned E.R.P.20 years in prison for doubly qualified sexual abuse.As a consequence of "the psychological traumas that caused her to be a victim of her own father," says the writing, the young woman began with therapeutic support and with the passage of time and the help of her therapist, family and friends, "managed to travel the trialagainst your abuse ".That process "made him feel that he managed to be heard judicially, that his abuser pays with his freedom part of the damage he suffered and that, beyond the treatments he does, he marked her for life," said the lawyer.According to the ruling, B.He requested the paternal last name for his mother's, who from the outset accompanied her and in whom "there was not a second of distrust"."Together we went to denounce it and we did not stop until the conviction of who I cannot continue to call him a father, since it is a real jackal," said the victim.At the same time, he said that his mother "is a great woman, had to endure that man who had chosen as a husband and father of his children, has ruined the life of his daughter and a whole family".And he added that "that's why my last name must be (the maternal), with which I want to identify and identify me society".In the foundations of the resolution, Judge Escola said that “the horror to which the petitioner was subjected every day, for at least fourteen years, to be able to travel the complaint of such aberrations and the subsequent trial, as well as the other days to pass, with their unfortunate consequences, they relieve me to have to give another explanation or make any interpretation, beyond their own words, with which I understand the request of these actions left over ”with the request of these actions”.A report by the therapist who attends to B., attached to the resolution, indicated that "the change of paternal surname for maternal is highly justified in the history of abuse and violence exercised by its parent, which has not been able to fulfill its paternal function, but quite the opposite".Thus, he stated that "it is necessary that the State exercise a symbolic reparation in its subjectivity, which will extend the favorable effects of the penalty to twenty years in jail for said subject".“The psychic trauma or damage suffered by my patient is being processed in the therapeutic process, but in addition, it is an act of vital affirmation the desire of this change of identity to be able to recognize itself as Otrere, both in its interiority and with its affective links, social, institutional, ”said the psychological report.The judicial judgment concluded that "making room for this request is to pave the way to be able to sustain this desire that will release it, in part, to have to endure its paternal surname as a stigma, as a burden".