Young Woman Speaks Out on Two Years of Abuse and Threats from Ex-Boyfriend

Joselyn Ricalde is an 18-year-old call center agent from Orange Walk District who tonight is taking the bold step of exposing her abuser. Ricalde has been in a relationship for the past two years. The boyfriend/girlfriend relationship started when she was only 16 years and things were good for a year. However, things took a turn for the worse when they moved in together. 

Ricalde recalled that HE would come home very aggressive and intoxicated and would beat her on the head and body. The couple lasted for two years and ended the relationship in March of this year, but he would not have it. He constantly threatened her by calling. texting and saying, “If you’re not for me, you’re for no one else.”  Tonight, in a Love News exclusive, Joselyn Ricalde who asked that we do not use her picture spoke to us about what happened on October 9, seven months after she was threatened.

Joselyn Ricalde, Victim of Domestic Abuse: “I was coming out from my house so it literally like getting up and going to work as per normal and when I was hitting the curb by my mom he just jumped in front of me and I was so frightened that I didn’t feel that he was stabbing me multiple times on my body I just felt when he stabbed me on my neck. That was the only stab that I felt. The only thing that he mentioned to me was that, where are you going? B***h? That’s I’m sorry, but that was what he told me  before he even,  um, brought me down from my cycle. That’s what he told me that where am I going? And from there, he just grabbed me from my hair and then started stabbing me on my neck and me trying to defend myself.  I That’s where I tried to hold him and he stabbed me on my hands as well and as well on my chest.”

Ricalde has visited the Police station three times, trying to obtain a restraining order against her abuser, but she was directed to “come back and check with the magistrate’s court.” Ricalde says she grew tired of seeking a restraining order because all the incidences of abuse she suffered occurred during the weekends when the court is closed.