Chiquis Rivera Refuses to See Abusive Father in Prison
Singer Chiquis Rivera revealed during an interview Sunday that she refuses to visit her father José Trinidad Marín, who is in prison for abusing her, her sister and aunt Rosie Rivera.
According to TVyNovelas, during an interview with "Sal y Pimienta," the star explained that she will only see her father, who has asked for her and her sister Jacqueline to visit him, if he asks for their forgiveness.
"He wants to see us ... It's really rare, because when my mom was alive I wanted to go see him in jail and he didn't want to," she said. "But now I don't want to."
In 2007, after spending several years on the run, Marín was sentenced to 31 years in prison without parole for rape and sexual assault.
In her memoir, titled "Forgiveness," Rivera revealed details about her father's abuse, which began when she was 8 years old and ended when she was 12, reported Billboard.
The 30-year-old explained in detail the encounters with her father at his house, after he and Jenni Rivera had divorced and shared custody of the children.
"My father would take advantage of those weekends, exploiting my silence more and more while simultaneously becoming ever more aggressive. All I remember is closing my eyes, tensing up my arms and thinking, 'If I don't put up too much of a fight, then he'll be done with me sooner,'" she wrote.
However, regardless of the pain caused to her and her family by her father, she reveals in the memoir that she does not hate him. Still, she does not want a relationship with him because it would be disrespectful to her mother.
"For what he did to me as a little girl, I forgave him a thousand times. But it would be a betrayal of my mother if I sought out the friendship of a man who never even sent me a message of condolence [after Jenni Rivera died]," Chiquis Rivera said.
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