Bayan haka, sai ta amsa tambayar a baya a cikin wannan harshe kamar yadda nassi: Nassi: Medina bai taɓa bayyana mahaifin yaron ba ko kuma yanayin da ta samu ciki. Escomel ya ba da shawarar cewa ba za ta iya sanin kanta ba, kamar yadda ta "ba za ta iya ba da cikakkun amsoshi ba". An kama mahaifin Lina saboda zargin cin zarafin yara, amma an sake shi saboda rashin shaida kuma ba a taɓa gano mahaifin mahaifin ba. An haifi ɗanta da lafiya. Ya mutu a 1979 yana da shekaru 40. A lokacin da ta girma, Medina ta yi aiki a matsayin sakatare a asibitin Lima na Lozada, wanda ya ba ta ilimi game da ilimi kuma ya taimaka wa ɗanta ta makarantar sakandare. Ta auri Raúl Jurado, wanda ya haifi ɗanta na biyu a shekarar 1972. A shekarar 2002, suna zaune a wani yanki mai talauci na Lima da aka sani da "Chicago".
Mahaifin yaron ko yanayin da ta yi ciki