A Venezuelan poet commits suicide after being accused of abusing a minor

"I read and write. Cultural agitator. I'm a lucky guy. Catiense and educated by the UCV. Photophobic. Amaxophobic. Since 1980". This is how the Venezuelan poet and artist Willy McKey defined himself, who has ended his life after revealing that five years ago he abused a minor who was then 16.

The young woman recounted the abuse she had suffered through social media. "I have finally decided to talk about my experience of abuse with Venezuelan writer Willy McKey," she said in a Twitter thread. It was in 2015, she was 15 then and she met the writer in a micro-theater.

"I thought I had found a mentor"

McKey wrote to her via social media, quoting her in her office: "I was hysterical with emotion, I thought I had found a mentor, a Kind of a father figure I could confide in with my literary ambitions and in exchange would get some guidance, introduce me to dick poets like him who would take notice of me as he was following me on Instagram. At the time I was taking selfies. Lots of I did them without clothes, but I censored them. He began to talk to me about them, how interesting they were and how my vision resembled that of Gala Garrido. I was very flattered," Pia recounted.

And he remembers that the poet, who was well known in his country for having participated in television programs, "dazzled me by telling me that he had worked with such and such, and that these people were going to love me and that I would have the opportunity to show them my work and achieve a thousand pods, but he never did anything. It was to keep me thinking that he cared about me."

"He started telling me about his dreams, which were suggestive, but not overly so. McKey's a smart ass, he works with words; I can't deny that his strategy to abuse me was subtle and almost perfect, because I didn't I was aware of this if not until recently," he adds.

"He masturbated on the other end of the phone"

From dreams he moved on to words: “outburst was a euphemism for ejaculation, and disorder was a euphemism for sexual arousal. When he told me "it was messy" it meant he was horny. And the words gave rise to something else: "His favorite activity: He described a sexual encounter with me while he masturbated on the other end of the phone. It was only by chat, but over time it escalated to a call."

And finally the abuse came: "I went to his office in La Castellana so that he finally gave me the little card, which was just an excuse. There he kissed me. Approximately a month later he invited me to the apartment where he stayed in Los Cortijos I went twice in total," recalls Pia in that Twitter thread.

"It was the first time in my life that I was naked in front of a man"

"He performed oral sex on me, masturbated me with his hands and rubbed his genitals against mine countless times. It was the first It was the time in my life that I was naked in front of a man. I had never had a penis touch my vulva. I had just turned 16. He turned 36 the following week," explains the young woman who is now 20.

"During the act I lay on the bed, motionless and with my eyes closed. I felt like I was in a doctor's office during those meetings: naked, confused and hoping it would end quickly. I never said it: but I was extremely uncomfortable. Everything was felt wrong," he adds.

"I was totally a virgin"

The young woman does not shy away from explaining how she felt: "With my heart in my hand I can say that I was never sexually or romantically attracted to Willy McKey. I was 16, by God I was just wearing my beige chemise at school, my ideal man was Zayn Malik from One Direction, my 15th birthday party had been held not long ago, I had braces on and I was just learning to use the subway. I was intelligent, I was talented, I was precocious, but also quite vulnerable and inexperienced in a million things. I was totally a virgin, hadn't even sucked cock. I didn't know what I liked sexually. He made fun of me because he realized that I avoided seeing his penis at all costs. He avoided his gaze in any way so as not to see his penis. He noticed this even before I did, because I did it unconsciously, and he made fun of it infinitely."

She also does not hide the consequences of this abuse: "I developed vaginismus and had problems for years having sexual relations. My body understood the trauma before I did. I would not say that my case is an open secret, but my friends from the school knew. At the time, when I was part of Teatro Nueva Era, those who became my very close friends also found out. One told me that he wrote to her and asked for photos, but she did not pay attention. "

Other possible victims

"Which makes me think that maybe I wasn't the only one, or suddenly I was the only asshole who fell. My friend also told me that he had been with the cousin from another girl in the cast, but I'm not sure if she was a minor or not. I didn't ask for details," she concludes.

"In the midst of complaints about abuse of women in Venezuela, through the Twitter account @mckeyabusador

An episode of rape in 2015 has come to light, which I must take care of," the poet said on his Twitter account on April 28 after Pia's accusation was made public. It was one of his last messages. The following day Willy McKey jumped from the ninth floor at a friend's house in Buenos Aires and died.

Sources around McKey, 40, whose real name was Willy Joseph Madrid Lira, lamented from Barcelona the poet's conduct, but also his death, which they link to the outbreak of the me too movement in Venezuela.