Actress Mariana Peñalva reported that in 2009 she was sexually abused by Andrés Roemer while her four-year-old son was in the next room.
Through a video on her Facebook account, Peñalva recounts in tears how she met Roemer until the moment he invited her to his home and abused her.
His testimony is in addition to the 61 that until March 5 have been recorded by the collective Mexican United Journalists (PUM), regarding having suffered some kind of abuse and violence by the writer.
How he met him
Peñalva recalls that in that year, his son’s father became ill with a brain tumor so he had to leave for Sonora with his family.
After this, she was left alone with a film project that they had together and was in search of investors for it.
She met Andrés Roemer after he interviewed her for an Aztec TV show, and as a result invited her to a party at her home where she told her about her film project.
For this reason, the writer later quoted her at home to discuss this project.
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“I had to take my son everywhere because I didn’t have his dad. I came with my son to talk about work projects, I didn’t go with any other intention, I expected nothing but contacts, emails, some advice,” she says.
She says Roemer showed them his house until they reached a very large living room. Then came someone else who took his son by the hand and took him to another room.
“The lady closed the door behind her, and I was worried because I let my son go with a person I don’t know who he is. Andrew noticed and told me not to worry,” Peñalva says.
She claims that what reassured her was being able to hear her son’s voice on the other side of the door.
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“I don’t even know when we sit in the armchairs and Andrew jumped on me. I didn’t defend myself, I didn’t do anything. As much as I said ‘no Andrew, wait’, he didn’t seem to understand what he is no. And my son was by the door. I didn’t want him to hear me scream or that something was happening to me because I didn’t want him to get distressed. I didn’t want to stop hearing his voice because I didn’t know if anything was going to do to him too,” he says.
The filmmaker also claims that she felt “like a used object” and that it had been “her fault” for “sending a message that it wasn’t.”
“I didn’t understand anything. I was going with my son, I wasn’t looking for that. Who can think of that? What person thinks about sex when I was there with my child,” she says.
The actress claimed that Andrés Romer “is sick”.
“Sorry Andrew, you’re sick, you can’t do that with women. You can’t take the women home, lock them up with their child aside as if you were kidnapping their child while you’re raping them, it can’t be.”
Peñalva, who has participated in novels such as ‘Woman’s Look’ or the film ‘Arrest Me Life’, also sent his support to Andrew’s wife and daughter.
He said he hopes to “close the wounds” and “forget this completely and be able to forgive me,” while asking the other women who have gone through this situation to report Andrés Roemer.
Situation of Andrew Roemer
Mariana Peñalva’s testimony is released after it was reported that Interpol issued a red international search sheet against Andrés Roemer.
This, days after the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office (FGJ-CDMX) obtained an arrest warrant against the writer for the crime of rape.
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In addition, the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Ministry of Finance said that Roemer’s accounts were blocked at the request of the authorities for money laundering.
According to the latest available information, the writer is no longer in Mexico and is located in the city of Tel Aviv, Israel, a country with which Mexico does not have an extradition treaty, something that would complicate an eventual return transfer.
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