His corpse rotted in sight of the son, who was scarcely able to care for his sick mother, and the stench from it led to their discovery.

Her husband's death was attributed to her, for of what is the wife of a wretch, a woman who has been a prostitute besides, not believed to be capable?
If she swears, they call her a perjurer; if she weeps, they say that she is acting; and that she blasphemes when she calls on God.

Nevertheless, they had pity on her condition and waited for the birth of another child before they flogged her.

You know how the friars spread the belief that the Indians can only be managed by blows: read what Padre Gaspar de San Agustin says! [134] "A woman thus condemned will curse the day on which her child is born, and this, besides prolonging her torture, violates every maternal sentiment.

Unfortunately, she brought forth a healthy child.