THE LIE: DECEPTION TO THE CEO

The Procurator, upon returning from his trip, went directly to his residence. There, he found his eldest daughter under house arrest. Upon entering and remembering the video in which she assaulted her younger sister, he immediately became irritated.

Paf! Paf!” he slapped Rocio.

-DAD!” she shouted, annoyed and furious, “What’s wrong with you, why are you hitting me?” she snarled, looking at him with displeasure and putting her hands to her cheeks, allowing her tears to run down her face.

“Why do you assault me? You never raised your hand to me before,” she cried again, crying and rubbing her cheeks, exactly where her father had slapped her.

-That’s why you are the way you are,” her father argued angrily, “because I never gave you a good spanking. You needed correction and I didn’t do it,” he shouted, strongly angry with her, for having hit his sister knowing she was pregnant.

-Yes, but it’s not for you to come and attack me now, after the wrong has already been done. You should have done that in a timely manner,” she cried out, shouting and looking at her father with contempt, letting her tears roll down her cheeks.

-How is it possible? That you kicked Angie, knowing she was pregnant,” he cried, overwhelmed, “Yes, come on, you are a criminal, because you killed your own nephew,” with these words there was a sepulchral silence.

-I’m sorry, Dad! I let myself be carried away by rage. At the time, I didn’t think that would happen, I just wanted to hit him, because he rubbed my face in the fact that Christopher gave him his honeymoon trip,” she added, envious and petty.

-Honestly, I don’t see, in Angie’s words, the justification on your part, to hit her. And what do you care if Christopher gives Angie the trip or not? That’s none of your business. That is a married man who, already several times, has put you in your place, don’t you have any dignity? -he asked, very angry.

-She did it to humiliate me, because now she has become a friend of Christopher’s wife,” she reproached, absurdly.

-Are you crazy?” grunted her father, astonished and unable to assimilate the answers given by his daughter.

-Don’t yell at me like that! I’m not crazy,” answered Rocio, confronting her father and looking at him with rage and aversion.

After that discussion and confrontation between them, the Attorney General dedicated himself with his lawyers, in the defense of his daughter, convincing himself that there is not much to do, but from the conversation with the lawyer who initially represented her, he got something to defend her.

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This one made all the steps with psychologists and psychiatrists, who supported him in the elaboration and respective testimony before any Judge, about the mental condition of her daughter. Although all of them were clear, she needs to be submitted to psychiatric treatment, since it was not the first time she assaulted someone.

Before the medical report obtained by the Prosecutor, the conditions for Rocio’s prosecution changed. She was a person with intermittent explosive disorder, which means sudden and repeated episodes of impulsive, aggressive and violent behaviors.

According to the evaluation and the medical report, she also presents aggressive verbal outbursts. Because of this, she reacts with too much exaggeration, for the situation as was precisely what happened with Angie.

In any case, the treating psychiatrist made the prosecutor see that it is not a report simply for her to be able to enjoy the benefit of home detention. It also requires certain examinations: physical, psychological and using the DSM-5 criteria.

He also explained that with the physical examination, he will try to rule out physical problems or the consumption of substances that could be contributing to these symptoms. The Prosecutor recalled that both Rocio and Luz have had problems with drug use since they were adolescents.

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Arriving at his mansion, the Attorney sought his wife and asked her to accompany him to his bedroom, because he had to talk to her about Rocio, urgently.

-Sindy, we must talk,” said the Attorney General to his wife, in a toneless and muffled voice.

-Yes, what is it now,” she asked curiously.Property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

-According to the psychiatrist and the psychologist with whom I spoke to help Rocio, our daughter has problems and they are serious, that intermittent explosive disorder, it’s not a story, nor something invented to help her get out of the situation she got herself into legally.

-What did they tell you? She asked, worried because since she was a child, Rocio has never really been good behavior, but because she was involved in other things, she never paid attention to this.

-That she could be consuming psychotropic substances, to say something. Do you remember that Rocio and Luz have used drugs and both of them have undergone detoxification therapies,” recalled the Attorney General, “do you know if she is still doing it?

-No! I would have found out by now,” she answered alarmed, trying to remember something about them that would give them away, but no, she did not remember.

-Are you sure,” insisted the prosecutor, “It is essential to raise everything with the two professionals so that they can help us.

“From the conversation with them, I could easily evidence in this one, the unexpected and repeated incidents of impulsive, aggressive and violent behaviors such as verbal attacks on others -he assured.

-It seems absurd to me, that with a simple interview with her, they already have this diagnosis as true,” said Sindy incredulously, even though she is aware that her daughter must have a problem.

-Are you a psychologist or a psychiatrist,” he asked with anger and rage.

-I’m neither, but it’s impossible, with just one interview, to have such a diagnosis with Rocio,” she criticized severely.

-Both of them have been recognized and awarded national and international prizes as the best in their field, and they are the ones who preside over their units in the different hospitals where they work,” answered the Attorney General, leaving his wife speechless to refute.

-Is that so? -she asked, incredulous.

-In any case, as his parents, we are the ones who must take care of the problem and look for its origin or causes. So that, in accordance with this, they can advise us, recommend us what to do, to get her out of this disorder.

-What are we going to do when Angie and Joshua ask us? Sindy asked, because it is obvious that this will bring them problems with their daughter and son-in-law.

-Tell them the truth about what the psychiatrist said. I have the report, which I will send to Joshua. So that he does not attack or continue to put pressure on her to release her and take her to a rehabilitation center abroad,” he said.

-But we can’t send her alone,” his wife clarified, “because that would be worse,” she added, perplexed.

-Yes, I think that because of my position in the government and the confidence the President has in me, he will not accept my resignation. So, go and prepare your luggage so that you can travel with her and stay in that country for the duration of the treatment,” he ordered, reflexively.

-Okay, let me know when everything is ready! And in which country will it be? To wear suitable clothes. All for her sake. What shall we do with Luz? We can’t leave her alone -she assured, worried…