“Everything Was Quickly Archived, without Making Much Noise”: the State’s Pending Account with the Victims of the Women’s Board

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On September 19, 1983, during the first year of the first left-wing government of democracy, Inmaculada Valderrama appeared dead in the courtyard of the reformatory Nuestra Señora del Pilar, under the Patronato de Protección de la Mujer, in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid). She was 14 years old. The official story was built around an accidental fall: the teenager would have died trying to flee the reformatory by taking off some sheets from a thi…