"Vanessa Bauche: Fighting Against Sexual Abuse and Revictimization in the Entertainment Industry"

2023-04-27 03:13:00

Vanessa Bauche experienced several episodes of violence during the recordings of a series for Netflix in 2020 (Photo: Media and Media/Getty Images).

Vannesa Bauche knows that the process that she is carrying out against an actor who violated her in 2020 is complicated and exhausting, not only because of the slow progress with which the case has progressed, but also because of the lack of support from the production where these attacks occurred, the cover-up of the industry in this and other complaints and mainly because of the revictimization to which victims are subjected.

the interpreter of Worthy: to the last breath She has criticized the journalists who asked her how the process against Pascacio López, the actor accused by her, is going. López was released in February after 11 months in prison and upon his departure he blamed her and Sarah Nichols, the other actress who denounced him, of possible harm to him or his family. “They are very bad people who are capable of anything,” she said.

After calling a press conference at the beginning of March, López said he was innocent and that statement was the most reproduced in the entertainment press. For Bauche, the fact that the media did not ask for evidence that an authority declared him free of guilt was an error against the journalistic profession and revictimization.

“I tell you with all love and respect, we have had – in my case 36 years of professional practice – (a relationship) always loving and respectful, and you believe people who come out to lie and deceive you, You are part of the violation of the protection measures for the complaining victims and take for granted things that are not true,” he said.

“You are accomplices of revictimization”

Since Bauche spoke publicly about the macho attitudes and sexual abuse of which he was a victim, he has exposed a series of anomalies and the alleged corruption of López’s lawyer – who also turned out to be his uncle – and that would have facilitated his release.

“Those ‘evidences’ that [López] has presented to you, they are evidence rejected by the control judges of our litigation, if they were real evidence this person would be violating the National Code of Criminal Procedures and You would be complicit and have been complicit in the re-victimization of the violation of our protection measures and of slander“He stressed again.

In addition to accusing the actor with whom he worked in Neighbors Waralso carries a process against the lawyer José Enrique Pascacio de León for non-material damage, revictimization, harassment, threats, which have affected their mental health to the point of having severe and social anxiety.

I don’t know if you can sleep peacefully knowing that you are favoring the psycho-emotional damage of the victims, that we are already working on our traumas, because any type of violence generates trauma and you have to work on it, and the psycho-emotional damage takes much longer in healing.Vanessa Bauche

The producer, who is also a producer, has been grateful that the media are following the case, but trusts that they will do so with “the respect that should be given legally and with the responsibility towards all the victims who decided to arm ourselves with courage to be able to act for the corresponding paths, knowing that we live in a country where the laws are lax, where due process is not guaranteed for any victim and even so we decide to do things for the other victims, the past ones and those that could be in the future of not stopping the predators”.

It was also in March when Bauche revealed more of the atrocities that she and others experienced during the recording of the production of Netflix and Fernando Sariñana, such as being asked to endure or not to stop the creation of a WhatsApp group where various members of the crew they bet on their female companions.