«I am a woman, a mother, I have a daughter and a granddaughter. I love my son but it’s right that I pay if he made a mistake. Even if I’m destroyed.” This is how Jair Stiven Sinisterra Colorado’s mother explains why she reported her son, a 29-year-old Colombian, for raping and robbing an 18-year-old in Pordenone on the Noncello embankment on the night between 8 and 9 June. The woman told the police that her son tried to hide the clothes she was wearing. They were stained fuchsia, due to the anti-aggression spray used by the girl to try to defend herself. He was planning to flee to Spain. «Even if he drinks or takes drugs, certain crimes are not committed. This is why I reported him: if my son made a mistake, he will pay with prison. But that doesn’t mean I don’t love him. I was and continue to feel destroyed,” she says today Republic.
«If he made a mistake he will pay»
The young man is defended by lawyers Laura Diana and Alessandro Magaraci. His image ended up on public and private cameras in the area. «There were too many things that didn’t add up. When he came home that night, around two o’clock, he was beside himself. And then his clothes: he took off his shirt and Bermuda shorts and put them to wash. He had never done anything like this. When I saw that the water had turned fuchsia, well, I convinced myself that it was really hiding something from me. And so, I started pressing him with questions,” explains the woman. Jair Stiven Sinisterra Colorado with her «has always denied. In the meantime, the newspapers had begun to talk about the case and the fact that the victim had defended himself with the stinging spray (which releases a fuchsia color, ed). So, I asked him if he was the one who raped her. I begged him to tell me the truth and, if she really had something to do with it, to hand herself over. I swore to him that if I ever found out, knowing full well that she would hate me, I wouldn’t hesitate to report it.”
Mother’s heart
The woman says that her mother’s heart told her that it was him: «But I prayed that it wasn’t like this. I couldn’t sleep at night: it was a very anxious week. Then, going to the police was very painful. Because I love my son. And even now, every now and then flashes come back to me, I see it in front of me and I cry. But I know I can walk with my head held high.” And in any case she defends him: «I suspect that someone gave him something to drink and made him lose his mind. And you, believe me, I will get to the bottom of it to understand if that’s how it happened. Whoever reduced my son to those conditions will also have to pay.” But she also talks about the victim: «It breaks my heart if I think that she will carry this trauma for her whole life. I imagine that I will meet her at the trial: I will look into her eyes and ask her forgiveness for my son. But if I can do something for her now, know that I am here for her.”
