They acquit the feminicide, son of the councilor of Ixtapaluca

Sanjuana Martínez

La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, November 23, 2025, p. 10

Paola Alondra Mejía García, victim of torture, rape, kidnapping and attempted feminicide, feels afraid and lives in anxiety since a court freed Kevin Guerrero Torres, the also femicide of her mother, María Enedelia Mejía Pérez, sentenced to 62 years in prison on August 7.

On November 12, despite all the evidence offered by the prosecution, the second court of appeal in criminal matters of Texcoco, made up of the presiding magistrate Cecilia Moreno Luna and the acting commissioned judges Diana Garduño Santiago and José Antonio Cuenca Hernández, resolved unanimously.

“Justice continues to be corrupt,” he says in an interview with The Day Paola Alondra, unable to contain her tears, desperate and anguished by the fear that the feminicide who was her partner would try to harm her again. “I live in fear, I am very afraid that he will come at any moment to complete his objective: kill me.”

The improper release of the feminicide has been denounced by civil society organizations that attribute the decision to the corruption of the Judiciary and the politician, since he is the son of Gerardo Guerrero Ramírez, seventh councilor in Ixtapaluca of the Morena party and close to the current Morena municipal president, Felipe Arvizu de la Luz.

“There is a sentence of 62 years with all the evidence, but now the court issues an acquittal. It is evident that they corrupted the appeal court. What the magistrates cite is an exact copy of the arguments of Kevin’s defense. They say that there were violations of due process, when that was not the case. Worse, they say that my statements are not credible because I was not able to escape from the captivity in which Kevin had me. They completely discarded the psychological opinions and in criminology, pointing out that they contributed nothing to the case. “It is terrible.”

According to the investigation folder, Guerrero Torres, 22, murdered the mother of his then-girlfriend on May 5, 2023, while he had Paola Alondra kidnapped in an apartment in Valle de Chalco, owned by her parents.

“That day he kidnapped me, he put my hands behind me, he taped them to the metal bed on the lower floor of my house; he told me that I had asked for it, that he was not going to allow me to get away from him.”

He adds: “He left me there for several hours, but when he returned he already had different clothes and his shoes, with blood stains. He told me that he had cut one of his hands because he was trying to commit suicide. He told me that he had already spoken to my mother, that she was fine in her room and that she continued with her normal routine.”

She remembers that she was held captive for four or five days at her home in Hornos de Zoquiapan. “He took my cell phone from me; I lost track of time. He told me that if I didn’t try to escape, nothing was going to happen to my family. He had my dog ​​chained and said that if I opposed his wishes or if I resisted the abuse, he would retaliate against him. Finally, my dog Tyfi “He died from internal blows.”

Kevin held her captive for 18 days, from May 5 to 23, 2023, most of the time in Valle de Chalco, where he subjected her to all types of abuse and violence.

pathological jealousy

Paola Alondra, 23 years old, was a waitress with her mother at a restaurant in Ixtapaluca. There she met Kevin, 19 years old, on May 3, 2022. “We had an apparently normal relationship, but suddenly it became violent economically, psychologically, verbally and even morally. A few months later he started making hurtful, distasteful comments. In December he had an incident with his family and left his home. We opened the doors of my house to him. We told him that we were going to support him to finish the relationship. prep “I didn’t study or work.”

He then patched things up with his parents and they decided to live together. “We went to an apartment owned by his family. A few days later he told me that his family did not know that we lived together; he kept me locked up, arguing that it was so as not to put me at risk.”

Coexistence became conflictive very soon due to pathological jealousy. “He didn’t want me to study or work, he wanted to keep me locked up. I bought everything with my savings. I told his mother that he had me locked up and he got upset. Then he resumed his activities, but he abandoned them and we returned to my mother’s house. Between March and April he stayed to live and never left, saying that he was passing through and that he had a lot of problems with his parents.”

Then he began to try to control the young woman’s way of dressing and the violence increased: “I tried to end the relationship, but he didn’t want to leave the house; he threatened to make an attempt on his life. He used emotional blackmail a lot; he told me that he had lost many things because of me, and that made me feel a very big responsibility because I am four years older than him.”

He explains that there was so much sexist control that he stopped working. On the fateful May 5, the day of the events, his mother asked him to go buy a candle: “When I returned, all the doors were open. I entered the kitchen, he pushed me and tied me up, he took my keys and my phone; he taped my dog’s nose and paws. He forced me to relieve myself in a bucket.”

He adds: “He got me drunk, forced me to drink and then sexually abused me when I was under the influence of alcohol. He told me that that was the only good thing I was going to get because I no longer wanted to be intimate; that I had asked for it.”

Paola Alondra’s captivity continued in Kevin’s parents’ apartment and then she was in Nayarit, where she was kidnapped. There he asked a patrol for help and managed to escape. Finally she reported him, but both were arrested on different charges and it was not until May 23 that she found out that he had murdered her mother.

“My brother told me that Kevin killed my mother and buried her in the patio. He made a hole and put the water tank on top. They left me in the Nayarit prison, when I was the one who asked the police for help, but it was all due to his influential family. Then I was released due to a suspension of proceedings thanks to the help of some lawyers.”

The crime against Mrs. María Enedelia is classified as feminicide, although later the man’s three lawyers managed to change it to qualified homicide towards a woman. “They pointed out that there were no gender reasons, when there were due to the infamous wounds that my mother had on her body.”

He adds: “My brother looked for her, he moved the water tank, there was sand and one foot came out. He started to dig her up and called the police. According to the medical examiner, her death was due to internal bleeding, since there was a direct stab wound to the myocardium. She had wounds in her abdomen and arms; she evidently defended herself. She tried to protect herself. Her body was in a state of putrefaction. Tests of sexual violence could no longer be done, we don’t know if he raped her. She had an injury. in the skull, we had access to the necropsy and the photographs.”

Trial and release

Finally, Guerrero Torres was arrested and imprisoned. The conviction was handed down on August 20 by the judge of the trial court of the judicial district of Chalco, state of Mexico. “His responsibility for the crimes was fully recognized and he was sentenced in September to 62 years and three months in prison.” However, three months later, judges Cecilia Moreno Luna, Diana Garduño Santiago and José Antonio Cuenca Hernández acquitted him, pointing out that the prosecution had not “met the burden of proof” that is constitutionally imperative to it as the prosecuting body.

“Under such conditions, the principle of presumption of innocence was not overcome in terms of the evidentiary rule and evidentiary standard or rule of trial, given that the evidence provided by the prosecution was ineffective in establishing the criminal responsibility of the now convicted person in the act for which the accusation was made,” they point out in the document.

The magistrates ordered his immediate release, arguing that no evidence incriminated Kevin. “A conviction should not be based on conjectures based on the belief, supposition, hunch or suspicion of the judge.”

Guerrero Torres was released at 7 p.m. Paola Alondra’s family was notified of the acquittal decision by email at 6:40 p.m.: “There was enough evidence,” she says.

She cries when she remembers the trivial arguments that freed him and that his family tried to hold her responsible: “They accused us of being satanic. They said that my brothers and I were responsible for my mother’s death, supposedly due to a ritual. Pure inventions. Her family made a whole movement of revictimization against me and disclosure of personal data to attack and harm me. They took many people outside the courts shouting murder at me, they said that if they saw me on the street I would “They were going to rape and kill. They were very horrible things.”

To try to fight against the magistrates’ decision, she has filed an appeal and requested protection for herself and her family, but the authorities do not respond: “Kevin knows where we live. We do not have the financial solvency to move. We are totally exposed. I am in constant fear; afraid of meeting him on the street, afraid that he will come to kill me.”