The blood of women who have been murdered at the hands of their partners or ex-partners in the Dominican Republic continues to splash society, which demands the strengthening of public policies aimed at combating domestic violence and the persecution and condemnation of those responsible for these femicides.
So far this year in the country, close to 60 femicidesthe majority executed according to the accusatory files presented in the justicewith the same modus operandi, jealousy, persecution and subsequent elimination of the victims.
The situation has heightened concern and triggered alarms in society.
Mentioning the most recent case of Nazario Mercedesdescribed by many as “serial feminicide” while other behavioral experts classify it as “multiple” for the number of women he supposedly murdered in the last 29 years.
“Serial” or Multiple Killer
Behavioral specialists such as Alexandra Hichessaid that the murderer can be located within a pattern of “psychopathic violence” due to the way in which he allegedly took the lives of six women.
“You have to analyze his family pattern, the relationship he had with those women, if he had children, what his role was in the relationship, to determine the degree of mental deterioration,” the psychiatrist explained in the RCC Media group’s A Diario program.
It also clarifies that more than a “serial killer” or serial killer, Mercedes perpetrated multiple crimes over time, since to qualify as the first, a series of sequences must be established in the way the women are killed.
Increase in Violence
Concern about the scourge is also expressed by the psychiatrist, José, Miguel Gómez, who maintains that “we literally find ourselves facing a culture of violence in our country. In just three days, nine people have lost their lives as a result of domestic violence.”
He says that this pattern is recorded when people with a “damaged” brain use violence as a way to solve their problems,
He explains in his column in the Today newspaperthat these crimes could mostly be “avoided” through a culture of good treatment.
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