In March 2022, more than two years after the images of the body of Ingrid Escamilla, a victim of femicide, were released, the Chamber of Deputies approved a law that bears her name and establishes sanctions for those who make this type of leak.
The “Ingrid Law” is a reform to the Federal Penal Code to sanction public servants who disseminate images, audios, videos, documents or information about the criminal investigation, personal conditions of a victim or the circumstances of a crime.
On the night of February 8, 2020, Ingrid Escamilla, 25, was murdered by her partner Érick Francisco in an apartment located in the Vallejo neighborhood, in the Gustavo A. Madero mayor’s office in Mexico City.
The photographs of his body, as well as Francisco’s first statements, were leaked by the capital’s police and published on the front page of several media outlets with a tabloid look.
In social networks, users and feminist organizations condemned the leaking and publication of the images of the femicide, which also provoked protests in the streets.
