In December 2022, Lorena* traveled from Neiva (Huila) to Bogotá at the invitation of José Antonio Barba Riaño. That day, finally, I was going Meet the man who fascinated her via Facebook and who has already become his emotional partner.

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A 25-year-old girl worked for the mayor of her city and studied Food Engineering. She was looking for a good, sensible, purposeful man without trusting him, and that’s what she liked about this stranger. Yes, she was a foreigner. A like It was enough to start this story that went to hell in a few days..

Barba, 34, has sold herself as a promising payroll analyst who has worked at a prestigious bank for 18 years. Before they met, he was kind to Lorena and persuaded her to spend the holidays together.. “No one had ever treated me so kindly before. He was so caring.”

Excited to meet this person, she did not hesitate to go to Bogotá because one of her dreams was to visit the capital. He traveled on December 15. That day, when he arrived, he picked him up and took him to his residence in the Las Cruces neighborhood in the town of Santa Fe., in a house where he supposedly lives with his family, but allows his independence. “I didn’t think she was beautiful, but what I was looking for was a good person. I didn’t travel because I was interested”.

In the first days everything seemed to be going normally, until they went to buy groceries for dinner one weekend and Lorena says she doesn’t know what to get, she’s not even good at cooking. “Then, He got hysterical, he told me I humiliated himis useless, is an imbecile. It hit me in the face for the first time when I got home.”

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For some odd reason, Lorena was already psychologically dominated. She went out with glasses to hide her injuries and she didn’t think of running away.
When Christmas night came, they both ate at home because the young woman’s injuries had left her face and body unrecognizable. He used to address her with the word “love” and a few seconds later he hit her again.

Sometimes he treated his wounds himself, took his medicine to heal him, and then returned to torture the open wounds. “He’s crazy. I don’t understand why he’s acting like that.”

Lorena had become a slave in Barba’s service. Under threats, she had to make him lunch, wash his clothes, prepare his toothbrush, and pick him up at the time he said.

In addition, he manipulated her social networks, cell phone, removed her from her contacts and said that she would only see her family in him again. Neiva when they become a stable couple and that this can happen after about three years. “Every day I begged him to stop hitting me, but before he did it harder with his cell phone. I bit my lips, bit my legs and arms and hurt my stomach. Many times I had trouble breathing and slept with an open-mouthed.”

For Sunday, January 18, Lorena planned an escape route, in what she called a moment of consciousness. Barba had told him she wanted to ride a bike with a friend, and she had asked if it was okay. “It was strange. He said he didn’t want to go because he saw me sick and pale, he wanted to take care of me. It was like that with all his fists!“.

She soon realized that she had to keep up with her mental games and told him to stay calm, that she was fine. “So I prepared his uniform the night before and picked it up at 5:50 am.”

It hit him that day because it woke him up five minutes late and then fell asleep again by 6:10 am. He told her that day he would punch her for every minute she was late. “There were 25 of them. I was unrecognizable.“.

As soon as he left the house, he stumbled on the pavement and tripped easily. He sought help from a Christian church and they did not want to help him.

Eventually, he reached the Emergency Attention Command (CAI), where they helped him. “I went to a URI that day but they didn’t join me because it was Sunday.”

He was then taken to a clinic where he was hospitalized for several days and was able to obtain a legal medication opinion after his release and filed a complaint in Puente Aranda.

The young woman suffered injuries to her head, face, legs, arms and ribs. Your first injury was 45 days. “After all that, I was finally able to return to Neiva. It was like I had been reborn 18 days later. I knew when his mother found out she said, ‘I don’t know him, I haven’t had children.’

Apparently, Barba already has a history of aggression. “No one deserves to be tortured like they did to me. I’m totally crushed. Most people judge me, but I just wanted to have a good man by my side.”

For these facts, the CTI investigators of the Prosecutor’s Office caught Barba. A prosecutor from the Bogotá Division brought him before a warrant checking judge and charged him with attempted murder of a woman. The man pleaded not guilty and has to comply with a deprivation of liberty measure in a prison. “Please let me know if anyone else has been your victim,” Lorena said. “You may hurt more women if you get out of jail.”

Through the hearings, both versions will be recorded in this case and the decision of the judge in this case will be announced.

Another victim of Antonio Barba Riaño appears in a house in central Bogotá.

*The name has been changed at the request of the victim.
Carol Malaver
If you are also a victim, write to us at [email protected].
BOGOTA EDACTION.

Source: Exame

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