Mexico: the autopsy of Debanhi Escobar revealed that she was abused before being brutally murdered

Debanhi Escobarthe young woman who was found dead in the cistern of a hotel in northern Mexico 12 days after her disappearance, was murdered and sexually abusedaccording to an independent forensic report requested by his family.

The document, which reviews the first official autopsy, indicated that the body of the 18-year-old “presents traces of a recent violent vaginal intercourse” and that this “is deduced from having found violaceous ecchymoses and hematomas” in the outer area of ​​the genitals.

“A Violent Homicidal Death”

It also states that Escobar died “before his body was introduced or thrown” into the water tank, according to the Spanish newspaper. The countrywho had access to the document.

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“It is a homicidal violent death”, stated the report, which rules out the hypothesis of a possible accident: she was hit several times with a “blunt agent to the head”.

The official autopsy did not mention or analyze possible signs of sexual violence on Debanhi’s body, he said. The country.

The report coincides with the first autopsy in which the cause of death was an “intercranial hemorrhage”, but details that The girl has multiple head injuries. and not just one as the official report seems to suggest, the newspaper highlights.

“Craniofacial contusions are of external origin to the body and because they are intense, repeated and with different angles of impactit is deduced that they were caused by another person and that it is a violent homicidal death, ”the report details.

The article indicates that the Nuevo León state prosecutor’s office received the independent forensic report on May 2.

Debanhi’s death is already being investigated as femicideafter originally registering as a disappearance, and work is being done to homologate “one final opinion” Based on the two autopsies, the Undersecretary of Public Security of Mexico, Ricardo Mejía, reported Thursday morning.

A party, a disappearance and a last photo on the edge of the road

The night of her death, Debanhi Escobar went to a party with two friends in the Nueva Castilla neighborhood in the municipality of Escobedo de Nuevo León.

According to local media, Debanhi’s friends left earlier and she finally left the party in the car of a driver from a transportation app that offered its services off the platform. But the man would have quarreled with the young woman and I would have left her by the side of the road, at kilometer 15.5. It was he who took the photo of Debanhi and sent it to the girl’s friends at five in the morning as proof of what had happened.

That image came about an hour later to Debanhi’s family when they contacted their daughter’s friends, worried that they would not see her return. They filed the complaint and after a 12 day searchthe body of the young woman was found in a disused tank, a few meters from the place where she was last seen.

A wave of femicides and disappearances

The case sparked protests amid a wave of femicides and disappearances of women. In Mexico more than 10 women are murdered every dayaccording to official figures. In 2021, more than 1,000 femicides were reported, with an average of 2.7 each day or one every 8 hours.

The cases also raise concerns about the Mexican trafficking mafias who traffic an estimated 10,000 women from southern states to the north each year for sexual exploitation.

“We have found that every year 10,000 women are trafficked for the sex trade, and every month about 300 women and girls are sent to the Monterrey metropolitan area to be commercialized or sexually exploited”, he exposed Arum Kumar, author of an investigation financed by the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) on the sexual exploitation and trafficking of women in northern Mexico.