Carmen Sánchez was attacked with acid by her ex-partner and father of her daughters. Judge María de Jesús Cabrera has sentenced Efrén García to 46 years and 8 months in prison.
This is the first sentence of its kind in Latin America that punishes in an exemplary manner an acid attack on a woman.94% of acid attack cases against women in Mexico are never resolved. The State of Mexico is one of the three entities in the country with the highest incidence of this type of crime.