CHILE
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Chile’s feminist organizations spoke out Sunday against sexist violence, following revelations by a national marathoner, due to run in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, that she suffered from systematic sexual abuse from her stepfather for 12 years.
“We deeply value the courage of Erika (Olivera) to break silence after so many years of hardship and suffering,” said the Movement for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in a communique.
Olivera, mother of 5, filed a complaint against her stepfather, Ricardo Olivera, on June 23 accusing him of sexual abuse from when she was five until 17 years old. In an interview issued Saturday by daily El Mercurio, the marathoner said that the abuses only stopped when she could defend herself against her stepfather, an Argentine evangelical pastor. In many occasions she thought about killing herself or killing him, she added.
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