Debanhi escobarthe teenager that wase found dead in northern Mexico after spending 12 days missingwas murdered and suffered sexual abuse, according to an independent forensic report requested by her family, whose details were published this Thursday by the press.
The opinion, which reviews the first official autopsyindicates that the body of the 18-year-old “showed signs of sexual violence” and who passed away “before his body was introduced or thrown“to the water tank of a motel, where was found on April 19, needs the spanish newspaper The countrywho had access to the document.
“This is a violent homicidal death“, indicates the report quoted by the newspaper.
The case, which occurred in the city of Montereysparked an unusual interest in Mexicowhere the femicide crisis dates back to the 1990s and hits especially poor women.
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The death of Debanhia middle class collegebrought this experience closer to more favored social sectors, generating a greater impact and social pressure, but also a trivialization of the case by the media, say experts consulted by AFP.
Debanhi Escobar suffered a violent sexual assault
The report details that the body of Debanhi “presents traces of a vaginal, violent and recent intercourse” and that this “is deduced from having found violaceous ecchymoses and bruises” in the outer area of the genitals, the journalistic note refers.
The official autopsy does not mention or analyze possible signs of sexual violence in the body of Debanhipoint The country.
The report coincides with the first autopsy in which the cause of death was a “intercranial hemorrhage“, but details that the young woman has several head injuries and not just one as the official report seems to suggest, the newspaper highlights.
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“Craniofacial contusions are origin external to the body and because they are intenserepeated and with different angles of impact, it follows that they were caused by another person and that it is a violent homicidal death,” details the report cited by El País.
The article indicates that the attorney of the state of Nuevo Leon received the independent forensic report on May 2.
The death of Debanhi It is already investigated as femicide crimeafter originally registering as a disappearance, and work is being done to standardize “a single final opinion” based on the two autopsies, Mexico’s Undersecretary of Public Security, Ricardo Mejía, reported Thursday morning.
Meanwhile, the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he was willing to meet with the father of Debanhi, mario escobarduring his visit to Monterrey this Friday.
