The young woman left the juvenile center where she was admitted and did not return. “My daughter reported that they were raping her there and no one acted,” her mother told OPEN CASE
“Since September 5, I don’t know where he is.” Her name is Virginia and she is devastated. He needs to catch his breath, he can’t take it anymore. She has been looking for her daughter for almost three months. Carmen Ainara, 17 years old. No news, no calls, no contact. Without a trace. She left the child protection center where she was admitted in Alhaurín De la Torre (Málaga), in a semi-open regime and since then no this. She didn’t come back.
The alarms went off the same day. “I went to the Civil Guard to report,” Virginia goes back to CASO ABIERTO, Prensa Ibérica’s events and investigation portal. “There were four or five clues,” she reconstructs. They all had a common pattern: “they pointed to my daughter being with adult people, with older men “. They talk about an apartment in Marbella, with all expenses paid, and a flight to Paris. His mind doesn’t stop. “I don’t know anything anymore. Maybe she hasn’t left Spain, maybe they have taken her out of the country… What I am clear about is that my daughter ran away from the center where she was. She reported that they were raping her, she said she was at the limit, she received threats…”the woman denounces.
Ainara, since her departure, has not contacted her family. “It’s weird, isn’t it?” Her photo floods social media, “even if it’s just to tell me, I don’t want to go back, stop looking for me mom.” The days go by and there is no news. “You’re already panicking….” The fact that she was in a center diminishes the performance of her mother. “They tell me that I cannot have information and Nobody does anything because they say it is a voluntary march… And I’m scared, my daughter is a minor.”
Photograph with Ainara’s last makeover before disappearing.
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“Ainara is not there”
“I remember that it was one in the morning and that I ran to the Civil Guard.” The alarm went off on the same day the 5th. “My eldest daughter is the one who discovers that Ainara does not return to the center in Alhaurín.” Installed in this for two months, “no one notified us.”
Virginia describes the first moments in the barracks. “As I was in a center, they called there. They told the agents who were going to verify if it had been reported, to give them ten minutes. In previous calls they didn’t pick me up, when they saw the number of the Civil Guard they picked it up, yes“. The agreed minutes passed and no one responded. “The Civil Guard finally took my complaint.” The investigation began.
Carmen Ainara Fernández, 17 years old. Minor, doubly vulnerable, she takes medication. Long hair, blonde highlights, she has a septum (slope in the nostril). She is wearing a loose, short-sleeved black t-shirt and shorts. She escaped from the center around 10:45 p.m. She has marks on one wrist from self-harm. The first clues arrived: a cove, a restaurant, an apartment in Marbella. The scene they painted for Virginia left little doubt: “since they were allowed to leave the center (semi-open regime), they had met some men in Marbella. They had money, they gave them an apartment… and my daughter wanted to leave the center, the They cheated, I tell you.”
Photos from the family album provided by his family.
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“Ainara entered a center because she was suffering from bullying and stopped going to school”
Once the complaint was filed, everything became entrenched later. Virginia contacted Ainara’s circle. He was shocked. “It was when I discovered everything my daughter was going through. When I found out that Ainara had tried to talk to the director because A classmate abused her. In a letter she reported that she was being raped by this girl,” she explains, “no one protected her.”
Almost fatal beating
Ainara entered the first child protection center at the age of eleven and a half. “My daughter was bullied and stopped going to school.” Over time, the situation worsened, “to ease the pain she started smoking joints.” She entered the first center thinking that she would soon return home. More would come. For six years he has been on a pilgrimage to different protection centers. “She came to this last one because in the previous one another classmate beat her to death. My daughter arrived at the hospital with bruises and seizures in her head,” says her mother. “Ainara has been suffering for many years, silent, enduring a lot of pain. She didn’t tell us anything so as not to hurt us.” Virginia adds: “She did not respond to the attacks, because she did not want to be punished. She did not defend herself… Even at 14 years old, he attempted suicide. They arrived for minutes, he had a very deep wound on his wrist. I just wanted to get it back legally and we were ready.”
Virgina stops again in the center of Alhaurín, the last one. She draws a terrified, unprotected Ainara, “He slept every night on the couch because he was not in the room with his attacker, a girl who was not well.. He warned the instructors shortly before leaving: ‘Please, I’m at my limit, I’ll shoot myself or I’ll leave.’ And he has done so…”. He went away.
“The versions began to be contradictory,” Virginia hurts. “The center first said that had reported the disappearance, then spoke of voluntary march. My daughter, they say, had taken a backpack and said goodbye.” The family tried to be part of the search, to find clues on their own, in parallel to the police investigation. “The agents basically told me that the centers children escape every day, and that’s it.”
The first sightings arrived. Ainara was in Mijas, Malaga, Marbella. They all agreed on one fact: “she was accompanied by at least one older man.” They talked about another young woman, “operated”, next to her, older. A phrase from her daughter came to Virginia’s mind: “There are girls who have had surgery after leaving the center, they are prostitutes and they earn a lot of money.” Virginia remembers that she stopped her at the moment. “No, daughter, no…” They weren’t her friends, Ainara stopped. She calmed down.
“I do not want to get back”
The messages followed one another the first days. “They saw her in a cove, in a restaurant…”. Later, an audio alert warned that they were taking her out of Spain. “They talked about a flight to Paris.” They haven’t said anything to him again. “I have no idea, I don’t know where they can have her. She was in a bad way and if they have offered her a false solution… she is already there.”
Ainara in different photos shared by her family: “Maybe now she has different hair, she no longer has the highlights with which she disappeared.”
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From a newly created account on Instagram they told him that the young woman had left voluntarily: “I do not want to get back”. The way of communicating grates on her mother: “it’s very clear, she hasn’t made a call: ‘Mom, don’t look for me anymore. I’m fed up…’ An audio, let her hear her voice, a video, let her see her ‘Mom, I’m fine, I’m not coming back.’ If he’s fine, and he’s gone of his own free will, he’d contact me. Even if it’s just to tell me to leave him. “My fear is that they have her held, drugged, coerced, that she is against her will.”.
Three months have passed and Ainara has not contacted anyone. Her mother fights the elements. “The police have told me that they are no longer going to give me information.” She feels that no one is looking. That they have taken away her rights as her mother, but not her love. “Until my last breath I will continue looking for my girl. Please share your photo. Let’s go for three months…”, she begs, “let no one forget, Ainara is a minor.”