The unfortunate anecdote that Marce lived, a user from Peru identified as merlymasyas on TikTok, has been viralized on all social networks and taken up by different media, because it was due to her clip that we learned of the sad story of a granny who was brutally beaten by her husband for putting too much salt in the rice.
And although it seems that it is a story from the 1930s, the harsh reality is that no, this happened recently in that Latin American country.
According to the information, Marce works in a health center in the district of Piura, where he met his grandmother, whose name is unknown, who at the beginning of May arrived with quite a blow after having argued with her husband for “not doing the rice the way he likes it”, which is why the man felt he had the right to physically attack her.
The woman went to the clinic to have the blow on her face checked, which extended from her forehead to her left eye. In addition, she had injuries to one leg. In addition to this, it is said that the victim has no children and that she only lives with her husband, who has not only physically and psychologically violated her, but also exerts economic violence against her.
It was he himself who took her for medical examination. However, when questioned how he had been hurt, the man assured that it had been an accident, because “with the rain, the woman had fallen” and this caused various bruises on her body.
The victim was physically examined and treated by the clinic’s psychologist, but even when she maintained the same version of her husband, the health personnel continued to investigate and involved the relevant authorities, who investigated and found the truth until she She herself confessed that, with a wooden spoon, her husband hit her on the forehead and with the cane he pushed her to the ground, which is why she had bruises on her leg.
Unsurprisingly, this was not the first time her husband had hit her. Unfortunately, despite the fact that the authorities became involved in the case, the assaulted woman’s response was that she had no idea where to go, so it is presumed that she continues to live with her attacker. Of course, hundreds of users expressed their opinion about it and many of them questioned the return of the victim to her house, while others indicated that seeing the images caused a lot of sadness and “pain in the soul”.
Unfortunately, domestic violence does not fit within a single age range. However, it would be important for the authorities in charge of preventing gender violence to put together strategies to help those women who for years have normalized this type of behavior and thus provide them with counseling and shelter so that they do not continue living with their aggressors.