Mexico's president has promised justice to the mother and father of a legislation scholar whose dying triggered a public outcry, after an unbiased forensic report concluded that she was raped and murdered.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador met with the household of 18-year-old Debanhi Escobar, whose physique was discovered final month in a motel water tank 12 days after she disappeared.
"I spoke with them and made a dedication to assist make clear what occurred and to make sure that there is no such thing as a impunity," Lopez Obrador stated Friday within the northern metropolis of Monterrey, the place the incident occurred.
They're "superb folks, a trainer, his spouse, and as mother and father they're very harm, damaged," he informed reporters.
Escobar's dying is now being investigated as femicide, after initially being registered as a disappearance, Deputy Safety Minister Ricardo Mejia stated.
The forensic report commissioned by the household concluded that the legislation scholar suffered "a violent homicidal dying," and her physique confirmed indicators of a sexual violence, in response to Spanish newspaper El Pais, which obtained the doc.
Escobar's household delivered the doc to the state prosecutor's workplace on Might 2, the each day reported.
The official post-mortem report, which has not been printed, didn't point out indicators of sexual violence, in response to El Pais.
Beforehand, prosecutors stated that Escobar died of a blow to the top and that they weren't ruling something out, together with an accident or homicide.
An eerie picture taken on the night time that Escobar disappeared displaying her standing at midnight by the roadside after an altercation with a taxi driver went viral.
She shortly turned an emblem for an indignant ladies's rights motion in a rustic the place round 10 ladies are murdered day by day.
The lawyer basic's workplace within the northern state of Nuevo Leon, whose capital is Monterrey, dismissed two public prosecutors for "errors" and "omissions" within the case.
Theories concerning the teenager's destiny have unfold on social networks and in some media, inspired by movies launched or leaked by prosecutors.
Video surveillance footage exhibits Escobar's actions after leaving the celebration, having argued with a person, till she arrived on foot alone on the motel.
A short glimpse of her wanting via a restaurant window is the final picture of her alive.
Her father Mario Escobar stated in video posted late Thursday that if the prosecutor's workplace was behind the leak of the forensic report back to the media, then its heads ought to resign.
In 2021 alone, Mexico registered 3,751 murders of ladies, most of that are nonetheless unpunished.
"Criminalization of the victims"
Psychosocial assist specialist Valeria Moscoso sees a sample within the case of Escobar and others.
"The indolence, restricted investigation capability, criminalization of the victims and danger of impunity are being repeated," she stated.
In keeping with prosecutors, there have been 56 murders of ladies this 12 months in Nuevo Leon, 42 of which had been categorized as femicides -- killings of ladies due to their gender.
Round 300 ladies have disappeared within the state to date in 2022, of which 90 p.c have been discovered alive.
Final month, Nuevo Leon Governor Samuel Garcia stated he would improve funding and assets to assist fight gender violence, Reuters reported.
"We're working very onerous to deal with the causes of this downside and I will probably be very clear: to the rapists, and people who commit feminicide, and all those that harm the ladies of Nuevo Leon, know that we are going to discover them and punish them to the fullest extent of the legislation," Garcia stated in a Fb submit.
The issue extends all through Mexico, the place in 2021 there have been 3,751 murders of ladies, most of that are nonetheless unpunished.
Practically 100,000 folks have gone lacking nationwide, principally since 2006 when the deployment of the navy within the warfare of medication set off a spiral of violence.
Escobar's dying sparked unusually intense media curiosity in Mexico, whose femicide disaster dates again to the Nineteen Nineties and impacts poorer ladies specifically, a lot of them killed by their companions.
Final month, a whole bunch of ladies marched via downtown Mexico Metropolis and its suburbs to protest Escobar's dying.
Marchers chanted "Justice, justice!" and carried a banner studying "24,000 are lacking" about disappeared ladies. Total in Mexico, the variety of lacking folks of all genders has risen to over 100,000.