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So, Cocom has endured a great deal of emotional trauma, as has her daughter. Cocom says she can’t even leave the room without Vera getting anxious and following behind her. Today we asked Cocom if she had anything to say to Timofeev, the man who has turned her life upside down. She was quite measured in her comments. She says her only focus is healing and moving forwards with her babies.

Raquel Margarita Cocom - Mother
"I don't hate him, I don't hold nothing against him and his mom but what they I did it was awful because they did not know my nights of tears, they do not know what I gone through when I started to beg them to bring back my daughter. They did not know what is a mother's love for her child and everything that I went through it was nothing easy and I could relate myself to so much women out there that maybe they don't have their babies with them I could understand their pain. It's nothing you know and I only had my child with me saying momma don't cry, my son, he was saying, you had to be strong, she's coming back and I just want to tell him that he messed up everything. I don't hate him, I do not hold regrets, I do but what he did was totally wrong."

But Cocom says she too learned a valuable lesson from this terrifying ordeal.

Raquel Margarita Cocom
"With this that I have learned was a big experience for me and I will have to be more careful now than ever because we women when we fall in love we trust but my trust went more over and that's what was my problem. That was my problem and I think that, trust but not so much."

Castellanos's sex worker rights group, Tikkun Olam Belize assisted Cocom throughout the year.