She became medical director of Plymouth's St Luke's Hospice, and also works at the city's Derriford Hospital.ĭr Cassidy told The Mirror: "I do not harbour any hatred forĪnd she said of the ex-dictator's arrest: "My onlyĬoncern now is that I don't want to see any destabilisation inĬhile which is still recovering from the Pinochet years. Then I went to Geneva to campaign for theirĭr Cassidy's terrible ordeal strengthened her Catholic faithĪnd led indirectly to the work with the terminally ill which has won her "When I got home I went charging up to the Foreign Office to Held prisoner on the inside of the waistband of my jeans. "Before I left jail I wrote the names of all the girls being Our cell and ordered one of the girls to wash it. The guards brought his blood-stained shirt back to I remember one man being takenĪway and tortured. "People were tortured in the cell next to me. I was appalled by some of the stories they told me, including how some "I was among 80 women and 400 men who were arrested and jailed and The people who were tortured and imprisoned with me," she said. Later, she was forced to sign a statement saying she had not beenīut she explained: "It would have been suicidal to refuse withĭr Cassidy was held with 25 other women. The bruises around the top of her body took two weeks to fade. She was driven back to the prison and the agony began again. Wide straps across her stomach and shoulders to constrain the violentĬonvulsions brought on by electric shocks.įinally, she offered to show the secret police the address theyīut the house she picked at random was occupied by a terrified elderly couple so she admitted being mistaken. One shouted repeatedly: "Give it to her, give it to her."ĭr Cassidy was lashed to the bed by the wrists and ankles and by Gagged her with a towel to muffle her screams. She was kept in solitary confinement for three weeks, imprisoned for another five and then expelled from the country. With electric wires attached to her genitals in an attempt to discover "I treated him as a doctor seeing a sick person - it was not a She was asked by a priest to treat a man who had been shot and was In 1975 when she was 38 and working at a hospital in Santiago. Having been through such a hideous ordeal."ĭr Cassidy fell foul of the Chilean dictator's bloody regime They were incredibly brave and restrained She said: "I spoke personally to two girls who had been
Secret police also threatened her with an alsatian dog trained to "During the three torture sessions I was frequently fondledĪnd asked if I enjoyed it, threatened with rape, whipping and being She said: "As I lay bound I was given a violent electric shockĪnd I realised to my horror that my sadistic torturers had attachedĮlectrodes to my body. "I just wish this had happened a long time ago and thatĭr Cassidy, 61, recalled her nightmare in an exclusive interview at She told The Mirror last night: "He should be kept in prisonįor the rest of his life. Private London hospital, should finally face justice. Now Dr Cassidy believes 82-year-old Pinochet, under arrest in a The screams of other prisoners echoed through the grim corridors. Torment at the notorious Villa Grimaldi interrogation centre in the
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