Background
Juana Barraza was born in Pachuca, Hidalgo, a rural area north of Mexico City. Barraza's mother was an alcoholic who reportedly exchanged her for three beers to a man who repeatedly raped her in his care, and by whom she became pregnant with a boy. She had four children in total, although her eldest son died from injuries sustained in a mugging. Prior to her arrest, Barraza was a professional wrestler under the ring name La Dama del Silencio (The Silent Lady). She had a strong interest with lucha libre, a form of Mexican masked professional wrestling in which the wrestlers engage in titanic mock battles.
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