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By: EFE
Wednesday, November 6
Young pregnant woman is stabbed to death and becomes the 100th victim of femicide in Bolivia
A young woman from 25 years that was seven months pregnant, she became the hundredth victim of sexist violence in Bolivia in what goes this year, so far the worst in figures after 2013 will be registered 113 femicides.
The La Paz Departmental Prosecutor’s Office reported that the victim was found by several passersby on a downtown street with a neck wound and was transferred to the Hospital de Clínicas , where he arrived without vital signs.
The prosecutor of Crimes Against Life, Dubravka Jordán, told local media this Monday that “passers-by and public service drivers denounced the presence of an injured woman and bleeding out on public roads ” to which the Police showing that the victim was still alive “had a stab wound near the neck on the left side.”
In addition, Jordán pointed out that the motive for the crime is still unknown and that the aggressor had no romantic relationship with the victim.
The authorities identified the suspect as King TQA, from 27 years, who is detained.
Witnesses helped the authorities to identify the aggressor who, after having fled and thanks to the immediate reaction of the Police, was arrested near the scene of the crime that was registered this weekend.
The Women’s Coordinator stated “We are missing 100! ” and demanded that “impunity is not routine #JusticiaParaTodas.”
“#femicide is the most extreme form of violence against women. This Saturday, a young woman from 25 years ago he suffered a brutal attack in the middle of the #LaPaz public thoroughfare and lost his life. They took it from him, ”he wrote this Monday on Twitter.
In Bolivia, one of the most violent countries for women, it has been in force since 2013 a law that punishes femicide with 30 years jail without the right to pardon , the highest penalty in Bolivian law.
Given the worrying increase in feminist collective crimes and other organizations have asked the authorities that this law be reformed, as they point out that few cases have a criminal sanction and consider that on many occasions the justice re-victimizes women who report acts of violence.
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