Leão Lobo reveals that he was a victim of gang rape “I feel very angry and very disgusted by this”

Abuse would have happened when the presenter was 16 years old.

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Lion Wolf spoke about a traumatic story from his past last Sunday, during participation in the Eliana Program, from SBT, the same channel where he presents Fofocando, alongside Mamma Bruschetta.

To Eliana, he spoke briefly about the fact that he was the victim of a gang rape when he was 16 years old, in the early 1970s.

 

When contacted by the VEJA website, the journalist recalled the case and stated that he felt responsible for what had happened, which is why he did not contact the police.

 

“I felt guilty, I was at the beginning of my sex life, I was very young. I thought it was my fault for flirting and agreeing to go with the guy who took me to the house where I was raped,” she says.

 

    “I lived dangerously just because I was gay. When I had sex, it was hidden, a risk of being discovered. Today there is a lot of talk about the issue of rape, but at the time I was a kid, I had no idea. I even thought it was kind of normal.”

 

At the time, he had gone to travel to Mongaguá, in Baixada Santista, with a group of friends. Along with them, there was an aunt of Leo, to supervise the young people. One day, he went for a walk on the beach alone and saw a boy – they started looking at each other, until the other invited him to go with him to a house.

 

“I went, thinking I was going to be alone with him. But when I arrived, there were four more. They locked me inside, nailed the door shut,” he says.

 

He claims he was hung by his feet from the ceiling, hanging upside down. He was then raped and tortured.

 

“From the position I was in, I saw a refrigerator full of bottles of whiskey. They did everything to me, they used bottles on me. I thought I was going to die.”

 

Leão says that after about an hour, in which he had been abused by all the boys who were there, he managed to escape from the house.

 

“They were very drunk, they screamed and laughed all the time, they told me horrible things. Until they got distracted. Then I ran.”

 

He says he was barely dressed when he left the house and, amidst the confusion between his clothes and the vegetation on the beach, he ended up tripping and falling.

 

“The boy who had taken me there grabbed a revolver and chased after me. He put the gun to my head and said, 'Did you think you were going to get away?'” he claims.

 

A few meters away, however, came an older couple, who saw what was happening and began to argue with their attacker.

 

“The lady started screaming, saying she was going to tell the colonel that they were using his house for these things.”

 

At that moment, after hearing this from the woman, Leão states that he deduced that they must be from the Army.

 

“They had shaved hair, were muscular, they must have been in their early twenties. I don’t have confirmation that they were military, but I deduced from what I heard,” she says.

 

While the argument was going on, he took the opportunity to escape. He arrived at the friend's house where he was staying terrified and without speaking to anyone.

 

“I was feeling a lot of pain, they had hurt me a lot, but I still didn't talk to anyone about it.”

 

Leão says that he felt very angry about what had happened, but that, after a while, he just wanted to forget – what actually happened.

 

    “This story simply disappeared from my memory. I remembered many years later, when I was already undergoing therapy. But even when I remembered, I never wanted to talk about it. But when I heard so many cases, from people like me who also felt guilty for having been raped, I asked myself: why hide? Every time I speak, I get emotional and hurt, but I also feel calmer.”

 

The journalist states that he now thinks it is important to talk about the subject, as his story could help other victims, but he regrets not taking the case to the police.

 

    “I feel very angry and very disgusted by it all. And I also have a feeling of helplessness for not having tried to find out the names of the attackers. I feel angry at myself for not facing this. Today they may have done well in life, become fathers of families, after having done this with me, and perhaps even with other people.”