Killing of 7-year-old stokes anger in Mexico over femicides
The killing of a 7-year-old girl on the southern outskirts of Mexico City has stoked rising anger over the brutal slayings of women,The city prosecutor’s office said Monday that investigators identified a body found over the weekend as that of Fatima, a grade-school student who was taken by a stranger on Feb. 11. By law, prosecutors don’t give the full names of victims.
His daughter was initially told that authorities couldn’t begin searching for 72 hours after her disappearance, he said. However, the prosecutors office said an Amber alert was issued about the girl’s disappearance the same day that relatives reported her missing. She said investigators made the family wait hours and travel across the city to even file a missing person report. Other relatives accused police of not acting quickly enough.
A suspect has been arrested and purportedly confessed to killing Escamilla with a knife. Her body was mutilated and part of her corpse flushed into the sewer. The killings have proved a politically difficult issue for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who said protests over the killings were an attempt to distract attention from his social programs.
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