And in the end, luckily, he didn't shut up.

Yaqui the day before the trial of the man accused of raping her when she was looking for work as a caregiver
12/02/2025
2 min

We read in the ARA The case of a woman, Yaqui, who was looking for work as a caregiver and was raped by the man who had answered her ad. The woman, who was in an irregular situation when the events occurred, was afraid to report it in case she was deported.

I did a "gonzo journalism" report many years ago, in which, "as an immigrant", I placed an ad in a magazine, like this woman's, to offer myself as a housemaid to do work. I'm not exaggerating if I say that everyone, everyone who answered me asked me, from the start, where I was from (there were countries, like Cuba, that they found more "fun") and, immediately afterwards, they let me know that apart from cleaning, I would also have to have sexual relations. I remember that one of them told me (that was when we had been talking on the phone for two minutes) that I should "clean naked." The most disturbing thing was the "normality" with which they said it. Maids go to bed with the master (and they clean, no one can take that away from them).

I have the feeling that the case of this woman, an immigrant looking for work as a caregiver and raped during the job interview, must be much more common than we think. And it will be much, much more common than we think that the woman, once hired, in order to keep the job is forced to have sex. Now as before. How many are there? Precisely, the rapist already knows that not having the papers in order is likely to provoke the reaction she had: not reporting him, just in case. One cannot help but wonder if this man, now convicted, at last, of this terrible crime, was raping a woman for the first time, on the day of the job interview, or if it was not the first time and he always did it, so calm and convinced that no one would ever say anything.

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