Morella’s story has all the elements for a series or movie script. She fell in love very young and her partner separated her from the family. He cut off all communication, to the point of holding her captive for 31 years.

Morella escaped from hell in January 2020 where she turned her life. She fled the kind of “house before prison” her ex-husband imposed on her. Several people questioned his case, but the complaint was received and investigated.

The events took place in Maracay, the capital of the state of Aragua, located in central Venezuela.

On Wednesday, June 21, 2023, the Venezuelan prosecutor’s office reported that Morella’s ex-husband had been convicted and sent to Tocorón Prison. located in the same Aragonese entity.

“She came running, barefoot, and said, ‘he kidnapped me’: this is how a woman escapes from her partner after subduing and forcing her to travel much of the United States for a year.

Morella’s imprisonment

In February 2022, a few days after breathing “free” again and sheltered by the love of her relatives, Morella told Crónica Uno what she had experienced.

Matías Enrique Salazar Moure was his partner. She was 17 years old when she met him. He is six years older. She went from love to the fear of having him close.

He took her from Naguanagua, a town in the state of Carabobo, bordering Aragua, to live in Maracay.

When he arrived at the apartment, he described to that psychic that her voice “should be very low and slow, just like her walk.”

If an order from Matías was not carried out, the psychological torture began: repeat, repeat and repeat the same instruction to exhaustion

Morella

Morella’s mother was pained by his absence. He hadn’t heard from her since she left with Matías. When he went to the police years ago to file a report, the same officials dismissed the case. “He left with the friend of his own free will,” they would have responded, according to the aforementioned media.

The parent is deceased. He didn’t get a chance to hug his daughter again.

Morella “was abducted for 31 years in different buildings in Aragua, the last 18 years spent in an apartment in tower C of the residential complex Los Mangos, on Avenida Constitución de Maracay,” said Crónica Uno.

According to neighbors, Salazar lived in those homes with another woman. From an apartment in Tower D, he “mounted surveillance” to where Morella was.

They dictate 19 years in prison for a woman who went to prison with her son and her new partner beat him: the child died and the other prisoners killed the stepfather

The second victim was that other woman he kidnapped “23 years ago, used a firearm to subdue her. The woman became pregnant with a girl, who is currently 20 years old.

The young woman became Salazar’s third victim. He guarded her as she went in and out of the school,” NTN 24 reports.

Morella slept on a mattress on a pallet. The only places in the house that had light were the bedroom and the kitchen.

Morella was the victim of psychological and physical violence. One fine day, in January 2020, she decided to pluck up her courage and escape. He grabbed the keys and fled the apartment. It was the decisive moment. Matías Salazar did not “spy” on her.

“After her escape, Morella spent two hours looking for the Women’s Institute because she heard on the radio that they help victims of violence there,” journalist Jéssica dos Santos tweeted.

justice came

Matías Salazar was detained after the fact was verified and after several expert reports, carried out by officials of the Scientific Police (Cicpc) and the Scientific Technical Unit and Victim Support of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) of Venezuela.

The MP reported that the man was sentenced to 17 years and two months in prison for engaging in psychological and sexual violence against his 52-year-old ex-partner, a fact discovered on January 24, 2020 in Maracay, Aragua state.

Likewise, he was convicted of psychological violence against his 20-year-old daughter and two other women, aged 58 and 44. There were four in total to which he submitted, for what was then expressed by this body.

At the hearing, representatives of Aragua’s 64 national and 24 prosecutors upheld the charge against the man for the crimes of psychological violence, threats and sexual violence against his ex-partner, as well as for the first criminal offense against the detriment of his daughter and the other two victims.

Crónica Uno, citing Morella, reported that Salazar was “acquitted of the crime of sexual slavery for lack of evidence”.