MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexico’s president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed on Friday to ship justice for the killing of a Mexican teenage girl after an autopsy was revealed exhibiting she had been violently sexually assaulted and murdered.
“I promised to assist make clear what occurred and guarantee there is not any impunity,” Lopez Obrador informed a information convention after assembly with the dad and mom of Debanhi Escobar, whose killing final month infected anger over violence in opposition to ladies throughout Mexico.
The 18-year-old legislation pupil vanished on April 9 amid a spate of disappearances of ladies within the northern state of Nuevo Leon. Her physique was discovered almost two weeks later submerged in a cistern at a motel close to the place she was final seen alive.
The unbiased autopsy, which was carried out at the request of Debanhi’s household, revealed that her head was bludgeoned repeatedly by a “blunt object” and that she had bruises round her genitals indicating sexual assault, in line with Spanish newspaper El Pais, which first reported the findings.
Mario Escobar, Debanhi’s father, accused the state lawyer normal’s workplace of leaking the doc in an Instagram video following the article’s publication.
The lawyer normal’s workplace, which didn’t reply to requests for remark, had beforehand mentioned the trigger of loss of life was a “profound contusion to the cranium.”
For weeks, native officers steered she had died after unintentionally falling into the underground water tank.
“We need solutions, and we would like them to inform us the reality,” Escobar informed reporters after assembly Lopez Obrador.
An common of 10 ladies a day are killed in Mexico, and tens of 1000’s extra are lacking.
(Reporting by Daniel Becerril and Laura Gottesdiener in Monterrey, Mexico; Editing by Daniel Wallis)
