Gang-rape victim, 25, to be euthanized after father's legal challenge fails

A paraplegic gang-rape victim said she will wear her "prettiest dress" and hopes to "finally rest" when she is euthanized today.

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Noelia Castillo Ramos, 25, said she was raped on two occasions, once by her ex-boyfriend and the second time by three boys in 2022, describing this as a turning point in her life.

She jumped from the fifth-floor window of an apartment building in a cocaine-fueled attempt to end her own life in October 2022 after previously overdosing on medication, according to legal rulings.

The fall left her paraplegic, and she is suffering severe, chronic and incapacitating pain with no possibility of improvement, her medical reports show.

Noelia, from Barcelona, Spain, will be euthanized today after a long legal battle with her father, which ended with a ruling in her favor from the European Court of Human Rights.

"I want to go now in peace and stop suffering, period," Noelia told Spanish TV program Y Ahora Sonsoles in her only interview, recorded at her maternal grandmother's house.

Noelia, who is living in a Barcelona care home, said she has been "very clear" about her wish to die from the beginning.

"None of my family is in favor of euthanasia. But what about all the pain I've suffered during all these years," she said...

Noelia has been in psychiatric treatment since she was 13 and her parents separated. She was eventually diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD).