Salta: They rescued a woman with Down syndrome chained in the patio of her house

A 42-year-old woman who lived chained in her mother’s house, in Coronel Güemes, province of Jump, She was rescued by Justice. The woman was denounced after a video went viral on social networks where her daughter is seen lying on the floor, handcuffed by the ankle. The woman denied being “an abusive mother.”

The content of a video, where you can see a person lying face down with a chain on his left footgenerated great repudiation among public opinion. Soon the woman’s mother was accused of keeping her daughter, who suffers from Down syndrome, in a situation of subhuman life, next to the dog’s kennel, careless in its grooming and feeding.

A woman chained in Salta and the intervention of Justice

The chief commissioner of Regional Unit No. 7 of the city of General. Güemes appeared at the home to verify the veracity of the film content and inform the local prosecutor of his actions. According to El Tribuno, The man stated that when he arrived at the place “the situation was different, the person was not chained, he was bathed and in clean clothes.”.

The family is made up of the woman, her mother, her truck driver father and a cousin, and they are well known in their neighborhood. “I could see that despite the shortcomings they have, everything was very organized, The young woman had no injuries, she looked cared for, the relationship between mother and daughter was affectionate,” said the head of the Disability area, Natalia Díaz.

What the mother of the chained woman said

“The neighbors supported me, they know us as well as many people, but there were repercussions from other people who hurt us a lot,” said the woman. Regarding what is shown in the images, the mother said: “My daughter surpasses me with her attitudes, I am sick. I have to have surgerybut I am forced to suspend the dates because I can’t leave her alone, she plays with the dog, she gets into her cot, she throws herself on the floor.

“She has a certain independence, she visits neighbors, they give her things, everyone knows that I am very attentive to her, I take her to a psychologist, she is medicated because her energy is very high,” said the mother, who will try to get her last medication changed. Prescribe it to your daughter, because she thinks she is very strong and falls asleep anywhere.

Regarding the person who made the video, it would be a neighbor: “The lifelong neighbors in this sector of the city center know usbut next door there is a house where rooms are rented and the tenants change frequently. Surely someone who does not know about our situation recorded those images,” the lady finally said.