This Wednesday at the end of the afternoon, the body of a 37-year-old woman was found, who was wanted by her children. Hazel Johana Mejía disappeared since last Sunday, June 4, in the afternoon, when she went to work from her house in the Las Américas Dos neighborhood, in Managua.
Hazel’s son decided to start a search campaign on social networks on Monday, June 8, after the disappearance, but it was this past Wednesday that police officers reported that she was deceased and her body at the Institute of Legal Medicine. . In hours of the night, after finding her lifeless, the recognition of her body was carried out. An aunt of the victim who confirmed that it was Mejía.
The information that the Police provided to the relatives details that Hazel’s body was half buried in a property in Sabana Grande, a place close to the woman’s house.
They had no further communication
The relatives emphasize that, since Monday, when Hazel did not return, they called him, but he no longer answered the calls or messages. There are still no details of what happened, however, the Police affirm that the case is under investigation.
Despite the fact that the crime has not been clarified, the organization that defends women’s rights, Catholics for the Right to Decide, considers that it is a femicide « For us, every woman murdered at the hands of a man with such viciousness, where he demonstrates so much cruelty is a femicide, according to law 779».
