María del Carmen García was in the Alicante town of Benejúzar like any other day, waiting for the bus sitting on a bench at the stop next to a bar and a gas station.
Mari Carmen heard a voice that said to her: "Good morning, ma'am, how is your daughter?"
She raised her head and couldn't believe what she saw. El Pincelito, as they nicknamed Antonio Cosme, the rapist of her daughter when she was only 13 years old, was only a few palms away.
According to the sentence, the sexual aggressor was on jail leave from Villena prison, where he was serving a nine-year prison sentence for the rape of her daughter Verónica Rodríguez.
The woman reacted by shouting at him: "Damn, damn it, it's you." Mari Carmen began to sink into her darkest thoughts that she had been suffering since the attack on her daughter because of a depressive disorder for which she was still being treated.
Seeing the man who had raped his daughter on the street just a few meters from her new home, to whom they had to move to get away from him because they were former neighbors, made her lose her sanity because of this emotional explosion.
Mari Carmen didn't think twice and went to her house to look for a bottle. Once he found the 1.5-liter container, he went to the gas station to fill it with gasoline.
"Already with the bottle under her arm, full of fuel and wrapped in a newspaper, she went to the bar where Antonio Cosme was still having a drink," the sentence says.
When he saw her enter, the owner of the bar tried to stop her, to which she replied that she was just "going to talk to him."
After patting him on the shoulder from behind, he said: "Do you remember me?", answering him: "I have nothing to talk to you about."
Faced with this answer, Mari Carmen said: "Well, so you don't forget me," opening the gasoline bottle and spraying it on his head.
The Little Brush managed to push her, but he was already bathed in fuel and he could do nothing but observe how the woman lit a match and threw it to the ground, causing a great combustion that made the man burn "like a torch from head to toe," highlights the sentence.
The owner of the bar and a customer extinguished the fire with a fire extinguisher, but Cosme had already suffered third-degree burns on 60% of the body surface that affected his face, neck, chest, abdomen and limbs, which caused him a septic shock, dying ten days later in the hospital from cardiorespiratory arrest
For this revenge, she was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison for the crime of murder, plus one for damage to another diner, a sentence that was reduced to five and a half years by the Supreme Court when applying the incomplete exemption of transient mental disorder.