The woman who burned her daughter’s rapist alive after he teased her

In recent days, the story of a mother who set fire to her daughter’s rapist has gone viral. The heartbreaking situation occurred in 2005 in Spain when María del Carmen García was waiting for the bus to go to work.

Years earlier, Verónica Rodríguez, García’s daughter, had been abused by a bricklayer, later convicted. That day the aggressor, who had been released, appeared on the street, he approached the victim’s mother and provoked her:

How is your daughter?” he asked as the woman waited for the bus.

Ramón Antonio Cosme, alias el Pincelito”, had raped the woman’s daughter – Verónica Rodríguez, now 37 years old – armed with a knife in 1998. The victim was then a 13-year-old teenager who was attacked in a field while walking her dog.

The rapist and the victim lived in the same neighborhood. According to the testimonies of some residents, the attacker boasted that he would kill the young woman’s “whole family”.

The raped young woman entered Mari’s for breakfast on 13 June 2005 and found herself at the bar with her attacker. He hastily left the bar and told his mother. García returned with a plastic bottle with a liter and a half of gasoline. He rushed at the attacker, doused him with fuel and set him on fire with a match.

The fire caused a lot of smoke which the woman took advantage of to leave the room. “When the smoke cleared a bit, we realized that Ramón had disappeared. We open the toilet and find it there. He burned like a torch,” Antonio Fernández, the venue owner, said at the time.

As he recalled, when he noticed the woman’s arrival, he tried to stop her from approaching her daughter’s rapist. “He arrived where Ramón was, he poured petrol on his head and asked him: ‘Do you know who I am?’ When he finished emptying the bottle on Ramón she set fire to him with a match while yelling at him, “So you remember me!” ”.

Fernández put out the flames on the rapist’s body with a fire extinguisher. “We sat him down in a chair and called an ambulance. She had burns all over; raw face.”

The rapist was first helped by a staff member of the Urgent Medical Assistance Service (SAMU). It was later transferred by helicopter to the La Fe Burn unit in Valencia. And he died two days later.

García was sentenced at that time to 9 years in prison for the rapist’s death. His sentence was later reduced to five and a half years due to extenuating circumstances It was released in 2017.