In the early hours of October 30, 1992, Gloria Martínez, 17, disappeared from the Psychiatric clinic Torres de San Luis de Alfaz del Pi in Alicante. What happened to her?
In the more than 30 years elapsed, its case has been diluted. Just a small chronicle in some encyclopedia that can be consulted online and no real culprit that has sat on the bench accused of its disappearance.
According to the family, Gloria Martínez suffered insomnia since the age of 14, and, apparently, had anorexia problems, like so many other young people of her age over the years. The bad relationship with glory food and her nervousness, led her family to take her to a psychiatrist named María Victoria Soler, who for some time treated her in her consultation, until she decided, as the best option to recommend her internment in the Psychiatric clinic mentioned above.
Despite his alleged mood, Gloria Martínez, not only studied COU at that time, taking good grades in them, but was also studying seventh piano at the Conservatory of Alicante, where she resided with her family in the San Blas neighborhood. However, the aforementioned Psychiatrist María Victoria Soler, He recommended her internment at the Torres de San Luis Clinic, of which, casually, she was a shareholder.
The clinic was dedicated to “help” to people with stress problems, performed rest cures and, above all, tried to have patients with severe pathologies. Its cost, we talked about 1992, apparently was one million pest, (6,000 euros), although this amount today would possibly be double or triple, in relation to the cost of life. For glory parents that amount was prohibitive, but being middle class, they thought they should make an effort and launched their income.
Apparently, and this was learned some time later, said Psychiatric clinic He was in red numbers, being, at the time Gloria entered, her only patient.
Gloria’s parents took their daughter on the morning of October 29, 1992, to the clinic. She was uneasy and begging them not to leave her there. Both the mother and the father, paying attention to the psychiatrist always thought that this was going to be the best for her, without perceiving anyone what was going to happen a few hours later.
Apparently, a few hours later, always according to the sources of the psychiatric clinic, its employees and the direction itself, Gloria Martínez had a strong nervous breakdown, that forced the staff of said clinic to keep it strongly sedated. This happened about noon. And, apparently, with the only purpose, it is always so in psychiatry, to keep it out of danger, so that it would not be harmed, it was decided to tie it from feet and hands to the bed. At night, after dinner, to control his nervousness, it was recommended that he injected four doses of 75 milligrams of powerful sedatives. Apparently, they could be, among others, Haloperidol and others. This medication was applied, according to workers’ statements in order to reassure it. But, apparently, on the half past one in the morning he had another outbreak and according to the words of an ATS that attended it, Cristina Arguiano and his assistant that night, Amparo Ciscar, when they came to help her, seeing that he had a very altered mood, they decided to call more people to give them a hand. However, despite their state, of the people who were there, and having their hands and feet tied to the bed, they could convince them to unleash it and be able to go to cleaning; He suddenly calmed down (remember the amount of sedatives applied a few hours before) and, without realizing it, he managed to get out of his caregivers, jumped through the window of the room and approaching the wall that surrounded the clinic, managed to jump it, it was assumed that in its lowest part, 2 meters high. And since then he has never been known about her in more than 30 years.
It is true that the Civil Guard continues to maintain the open case, it is true that the clinic closed in 1994, it is true that when the clinic was investigated, a bag with glory belongings were found in a septic tank, it is never true to condemn anyone for the criminal, and although it is true that by civil via the company owned to pay just over a hundred thousand euros to the family, everyone, employees, owners, owners, owners, owners Psychiatrist, they left Rositas. Each and every one of them.
Gloria Martínez’s body was never found. Human remains were sought among the ashes of the clinic’s incinerator, their remains were sought in a nearby landfill where a judge determined that they could be. All this was unsuccessful. It was even argued that his body would have been transported to another place outside the clinic before denouncing his disappearance. All possible inquiries were asked, all probable questions, but an expert was never made about the possibilities of an anorexic girl, sedated to the point that the reports indicated, to get rid of the people who were with her that night in her room, to jump out the window, run a section and jump a wall of just over two meters.
Gloria Martínez was fragile, any sedative for a small thing that was enough to keep her “Grogui” for many hours. Could their crises invent to disguise some negligent actions that ended their life? Were your sweat analysis on the sheets to detect what they had injected? Did tests be done to analyze what was found in a plastic bag inside the septic tank? Why did a silence of silence get up around this case?
Many unanswered questions in a case where we once again have a psychiatrist who is a partner of a high standing clinic where there is the need to enter patients to be able to reach the end of the month. Was the management of the psychiatrist and the interest of entering it into the clinic where it was a partner? Was at least any file to said psychiatrist?
The wall of silence spread like a dark mantle on the case, on those involved and on the medical team that attended it. They imagine her, Gloria Martínez, barely had meat in her bones, was intelligent, was in seventh piano and took good grades in COU, and suddenly she looks sedated, tied and I do not want to imagine that, ignored and treated crazy, for whom they had to help her with her problem. Did you have strength to escape?
Originally published at LaDamadeElche.com
