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For: EFE Updated 23 Apr 2022, 18: 06 pm EDT
MONTERREY, Mexico – The family of Debanhi Escobar, the young Mexican woman found dead in the northern state of Nuevo León and whose case was initially handled as an accident by the State Attorney’s Office, announced that will require a new autopsy to determine if there was sexual abuse.
After the wake in the city of Monterrey, the family and legal advisors affirmed that “there was sexual abuse”, for which they accuse the Prosecutor’s Office of “inconsistencies” in the case of the young woman from 18 years old, who was found dead last Thursday in a motel cistern after disappearing on April 9.
“The family is not satisfied with the results, we want more studies, we have enough material to continue with the studies, for a second expert opinion”, he declared to the media Omar Tamez, member of the a non-governmental organization International Commission on Human Rights.
Debanhi’s case has aroused national and international commotion due to the image that went viral of her abandoned on the road on April 9 in the northern municipality of Escobedo, after leaving a party and taking a taxi, whose driver allegedly tried to abuse her. .
It has also caused outrage due to the alleged flaws in the investigation by the Nuevo León Prosecutor’s Office, which first treated the case as an accident and later declared to the media that the main cause of the disappearance of women is due to “rebellion” and “lack of family communication”.
In between of citizen protests with thousands of women in the streets nationwide, The State Prosecutor’s Office recognized this Friday that Debanhi died from a “deep contusion in the skull” before falling to the cistern in which his body was found.
“All the help that I can have to be able to clarify the murder of my daughter is welcome, because it was a murder, they killed her”, commented this Saturday after the wake Mario Escobar, father of the young woman.
The body of Debanhi, who was studying law at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL), will be transferred to the municipality of Galeana, in the south of that state, for burial.
The case shows the double crisis of sexist violence and disappearances in Mexico, where more than 06 women a day and there are more than 99.000 people not located from 1964, according to figures of the government.
So far this year, only the state of Nuevo León has recorded a wave of disappearances with at least thirty women still unaccounted for.
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