“Children hurt, but love for them moves you”
Marisol Martínez Hernández, 43 years old, is a member of the Atenea Group of the SSC. Her story of motherhood and service is pure royal drama.
It all started on their honeymoon, when they were 22 years old. She became pregnant without being very sure. But when she felt her daughter move, everything changed. “I told him: ‘baby, you come here, I’m committed to you, I’m going to take care of you and that’s going to be for life,'” he remembers.
The separation from her husband forced her to seek financial solvency. His daughter was one and a half years old. He decided to enter the police academy. “It was the ugliest thing I have ever experienced,” he confesses. He couldn’t see his daughter every day.
“I think that the commitment that I made with my daughter, at the time of saying: ‘if you come here I will receive you here and it will be forever’, then I had to look for alternatives to give security to my baby.”
The key moment
During the academy, his daughter became ill. Marisol wanted to ask permission to see her. A teacher stopped her: “You serve her better in here, your mother is there and she is on the lookout.” Through tears, she understood that there was nothing more to do.
“If that teacher had not crossed the line at that moment, I would not be a police officer, because they hurt, their children hurt.”
Marisol completed her law degree while working and is now pursuing a master’s degree. “Children require it. They cannot see that you are static or that you are not going to move forward, because they are a reflection of you.”
Today, with two daughters aged 20 and 13, she defines motherhood as the most important change in her life. “My daughters taught me to mature, to put my feet on the ground. I see now what they are and it makes me feel like I’m doing things right.”
His work at Ateneas, specialized in holding back marches, has shown him the dark side of the street. “We find beaten women or girls who leave their homes. It scares me, but I have to let them act for themselves.”
Marisol is proof that love moves mountains, even when your children hurt.
