The father of Fátima Cecilia Aldrighett Antón , the 7-year-old girl kidnapped and murdered last year in Mexico, was accused of sexual abuse against a minor .
Media in the country such as Vanguardia and Excelsior reported this Wednesday that the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office accused Luis “N”, and the man remains under preventive detention.
There are no details about the circumstances that led to his arrest, except that the victim of the attack is 9 years old.
The atrocious crime of Fatima and its national impact
Aldrighett Antón disappeared on 11 February 2020 when he was waiting for his mother when he left classes at the Enrique C. Rébsamen school, in the Santiago Tulyehualco neighborhood, in Xochimilco.
Four days later, on Saturday 11, the lifeless body of the minor appeared with traces of rape and torture inside a sack wrapped with a plastic bag, at least It is 5 km from her school.
“It was a heinous crime, it was a femicide. It is a truly grave tragedy. The mobile was not for money. From there to the intentions that the subject has had, at the time the Attorney General’s Office will comment on it, “said the prosecutor Ernestina Godoy.
The crime was arrested and linked to the process. couple composed of Gladis Giovana Cruz Hernández and Mario Alberto Reyes Nájera.
The woman was captured by surveillance cameras in the area when the girl is taken from school to a house located a few blocks from the school.
Aunt of a suspect disclosed alleged motive for the crime
An aunt of the The man, identified as Irma Reyes Castañeda, gave shelter to the couple without knowing what they had allegedly done to Fatima.
The 15 last February, both had arrived at the woman’s home in the Tlazala ejido, in the municipality of Isidro Fabela, to hide from the authorities.
The aunt told Mexican media that the couple and their three children arrived on Saturday and stayed in a room that she offered them. But it was until Wednesday morning that he knew they were wanted and questioned them. It was at that time that the couple confessed to having kidnapped and sexually abused the girl, before taking her life.
Supposedly the suspect told her aunt: “He (her husband) wanted to a girl to make her his girlfriend for life, I wanted a gift if not one of my daughters was going to grab it… ”
Abuse sexual and physical before dying
Godoy confirmed that the little girl suffered sexual abuse and beatings before dying, as revealed by the autopsy. In the house of Cruz and Reyes there were plastic bands with which they allegedly kept the girl tied.
The case not only generated national consternation due to the brutal attack itself, but also due to the handling negligence of the authorities
Negligence of the authorities
Relatives of the minor reported that the authorities initially refused to receive the report of the disappearance, because according to its protocols it is necessary to wait 72 hours to start the search.
“If they had really given us more support, my daughter would still be alive,” said Magdalena Antón, the mother of the minor cited by the BBC.
Five officials from the Attorney General’s Office local authorities, accused of delaying the investigations to search for Fatima, were also linked to the process, but remain at liberty.
Additionally, the director of the school where the minor was studying was removed from the charge for not follow the protocol Surveillance only in the case of delivering the girl to a woman who was not her relative.
