“They drugged me until I lost consciousness”: the video of the young woman who reported Gonzalo Montiel for abuse has gone viral

“I’m Carolina, model and hostess, survivor of gang sexual abuse where the main scorer was Gonzalo Montiel, our last goal at the World Cup”. The video showing a young woman in profile with dark glasses began to circulate on the networks and became viral in the last few hours. The person who shared it is lawyer Raquel Hermida.

The complaint of the young woman those who claim to have been abused by the Argentine national team defender have been around for more than a year. And Montiel’s name does not appear in that complaint.

“It was his birthday and he invited me to his house, we were getting to know each other. They drugged me until I lost consciousnessthis had already been demonstrated during the investigations, as well as my screams in the middle of the meeting”, adds Carolina in the video.

He also repeats: “Gonzalo raped me”. As for lawyers, she says it took a long time to find someone to represent her because “everyone wanted to negotiate, no one wanted to go to trial”. She is now represented by Raquel Hermida, defender of numerous cases of sexual abuse and who became known for being the defender of Nahir Galarza, the young woman sentenced to life imprisonment for killing her boyfriend, Fernando Pastorizzo, on 29 December 2017. .

The complaint

According to the young woman, it was abuse by Montiel It was January 1, 2019, at a birthday party at his family’s home in Virrey del Pino. She claims she was raped there. She also said that after she complained, her family threatened her.

The first complaint dates back to January 10, 2019, but then did not name Montiel but rather an alleged friend of the player, Alexis Acosta. That day Carolina gave birth studies conducted in a medical center, where they activated the abuse protocol. The case passed to Unit Number 3 of the Prosecutor’s Office for Gender Violence in La Matanza, then headed by Dr. María Catalina Barrios.

The case was unsuccessful because it was not ratified by the victim and It was archived on December 2, 2022. In March last year, when Montiel had already authored the penalty that allowed Argentina to become world champions at Qatar 2022, Carolina declared in court that it was the defender who had abused her, that they had given her alcohol and that she fainted.

“That It was the last image I had, of Gonzalo entering, because then I passed out. When I woke up, about five hours later, I was lying in front of the house with all the bruises, covered in mud, with all my clothes in disarray and with Gonzalo’s sister yelling at me ‘don’t mess with my brother, don’t to do it’. Don’t mention it, because I will kill you.’ There they put me in the car with two other girls and left me at my house.” It would be part of Carolina’s statement that emerged last year.

And he continues: “When I got up, everything hurt, I sent a message to Gonzalo and he told me ‘you were with someone’. When I ask him for explanations he stops responding and then I receive a WhatsApp from someone who said she was his mother , Marisa, who told me, writes “They raped you, mom, take the eggs”. There I rushed to the hospital and they gave me the sexual abuse protocol.”

At the time Hermida said that Montiel “was not a friend” of Carolina but rather “he was her boyfriend, they went out together, he told her she was beautiful and invited her home to meet his parents”.

Montiel showed up voluntarily before Justice in June 2023 to give his testimony. He is accused. Also Alexis Acosta. The cause is because “sexual abuse with carnal access aggravated by the participation of two or more people”. Investigate Functional Unit No. 3 of Lomas de Zamora.