The mother of Noelia Castillo Ramosthe 25 year old Spanish girl who received the euthanasiapresented two complaints to the prosecutor’s offices of Barcelona and Tarragona to investigate the alleged violations of which his daughter was a victim, as reported Daily Mail.
«I feel that my daughter wanted the whole truth to be known one day. That is why I have decided to go to the Prosecutor’s Office, because I cannot sit idly by,» he said. Yolanda Ramos in a video published by the Spanish Foundation of Christian Lawyersthe organization that supported the family to try to stop the young woman’s assisted death.
Noelia Castillo Ramos died on March 26 at the Sant Camil de Sant Pere de Ribes hospital, in Barcelona, under medical supervision. The process consisted of the administration of three drugs intravenously: the first two induced deep sedation while the third caused cardiorespiratory arrest, as detailed The Country.
The decision to die and the almost two-year legal battle
The young Spanish woman spent the first years of her life in a healthy manner. However, when she was already a teenager and due to family problems and her father’s addiction, she lived for several months in different juvenile centers.
It was in one of them that, in 2022, he suffered a multiple sexual assault. Later, she herself would reveal that it was not the only rape she suffered, but that she had also been a victim of abuse during a relationship.
According to Christian Lawyers, it was a Pakistani boyfriend whom she began dating when she was 16 years old. One day she refused to have sexual relations. That’s when he insisted and forced himself on her. «Sometime later she met another boy, gained her trust, drugged her and, together with two other men, all of them immigrants, raped her,» the organization detailed in a statement. video posted on Facebook.
What happened in the juvenile center was the trigger for Noelia to jump from the fifth floor of a building on October 4, 2022. Ramos did not die, but as a result she was diagnosed with irreversible partial paraplegia, which caused her to lose mobility and sensitivity from the waist down.
Shortly after what happened, Ramos decided to end his life. Even while he was in rehabilitation, at the Guttman Institute in Badalona, he already expressed his will to die. «The desire to request euthanasia has predominated,» «he verbalizes that he does not want to live,» were some of the phrases that his doctors at the time wrote down.
On April 10, 2024, he finally formalized his request before the Guarantee and Evaluation Commission of Catalonia (CGAC). In the documents she presented, in addition to what was reported, the young woman listed the consequences she suffered in terms of mental health.
Noelia Castillo Ramos met all the conditions to access euthanasia guaranteed by Spanish law, but her own father, Javier Castillo, delayed the process, which triggered a legal battle of almost two years until she was finally able to access euthanasia.
Yolanda Ramos’ complaint
Noelia’s mother also did not agree with her daughter’s decision, but unlike her father, Yolanda respected her. According to what he said, on the day of his death, Noelia gave him a diary where he wrote what had happened to him.
«Noelia spoke about the rapes on television and the same day she died she gave me her diary, and when I read it I understood many things. I feel that my daughter wanted the whole truth to be known one day,» he said. Yolanda Ramos.
Represented by Christian LawyersYolanda turned to the prosecutor’s office to «identify and judge those responsible» who «did so much harm» to Noelia. «That is why I have decided to go to the Prosecutor’s Office, because I cannot sit idly by. They are not going to return my daughter to me, but I also do not want all of this to be forgotten,» he said.
«I do it for her and also for other girls who have had the same thing happen to them and they don’t report it, and this is not fair. I just want justice. It is the only thing I can do for my daughter Noelia Castillo, so that she is never forgotten,» he concluded.
