16 development. However, he remained in exile and this distressed him a great deal. From a professional point of view, he had to leave his activities, his professional relations and the career he was trying to build up in Guatemala. Nowadays he lives in Guatemala. e. Testimony of Daniel Robert Saxon, former official of the Archdiocese of Guatemala and now husband of the alleged victim23 He was an adviser to the Catholic Church in Guatemala in order to establish human rights offices in the country. On March 31, 1999, he married Maritza and they now live in Holland, together with the son of Maritza’s first marriage, Fernando Sebastián Barrientos Urrutia. In July 1992, he was working as legal adviser to the Guatemalan Archdiocesan Human Rights Office (ODHAG) and he was the principal lawyer who helped the Urrutia family during the search for Maritza and after she appeared on July 30, 1992. On Friday, July 24, 1992, Maritza’s brother, Edmundo Urrutia, visited the Guatemalan Archdiocesan Human Rights Office (ODHAG) to request help. Together with another member of the office, he prepared a writ of habeas corpus that was sent by fax to the Supreme Court of Guatemala that same day; no reply to this was ever received. He saw Maritza for the first time when she entered the room where the press conference was about to begin, in the Office of the Attorney General, and he had the impression that she was a woman who was suffering from severe stress and exhaustion. After the press conference, his colleague and he returned to the Archdiocese and then Maritza, her brother and her father arrived. Subsequently, they began to take steps to enable Maritza and her son to leave the country. At that time, Maritza cried a great deal, and was evidently greatly affected. The fear expressed by Maritza and her family was not only legitimate, but absolutely normal. In his experience, those abducted in Guatemala generally do not appear, and nothing is known about them. In 1994, he examined the political complexities of Maritza’s case for his master’s degree thesis. To this end, he interviewed representatives of the 1992 Guatemalan Government and the United States State Department, and representatives of national and international human rights organization who took part in the campaign to try and obtain Maritza’s liberation. For example, he spoke with the former President of the Republic, Jorge Serrano Elías, with the Attorney General, Acisclo Valladares Molina, with the judge who granted the amnesty to Maritza, Lic. Secaira, and with the 1992 Ombudsman, Ramiro de León Carpio. The information he received in those interviews was often contradictory and, in general, he could determine that nothing had been done to clarify the case. He also had access to file number 2038 of the Fourth Criminal Trial Court in Guatemala. There, he was able to read a report of July 24, 1992, prepared by Héctor Arnoldo Medrano Contreras, deputy head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the National Police of Guatemala, and Deputy Police Captain, addressed to the 23 He provided a statement on the measures taken to find Maritza Urrutia and take her out of the country, and also on the judicial proceedings following her liberation and on the psychological results of the traumas she suffered, among other information related to the case.