Debanhi Escobar, the young woman found dead after 12 days of disappearance, which had aroused a wave of indignation in Mexico of an unusual scale, was murdered and suffered sexual assault, according to an independent expert report revealed Thursday, May 13 by the press.
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The report requested by the family, which reviews the first official autopsy, says the 18-year-old's body '
showed signs of sexual abuse
' and that she died '
before her body was entered or disposed of
' in the water tank of a motel, where she was found on April 19, according to the Spanish daily El País, which had access to the document.
“
The craniofacial contusions are of external origin to the body and since they are intense, repeated and with different angles of impact, it is deduced that they were caused by another person and that they are a homicidal violent death
,” the report quoted by the newspaper said.
The official autopsy did not report any signs of sexual violence on the victim's body, he also said.
3,751 murdered, 100,000 missing
The case, which took place in the prosperous northern city of Monterrey, sparked an unusual outcry in Mexico, where a wave of feminicides has been raging since the 1990s, hitting poor women particularly hard.
That it affected a middle-class university student resonated louder among wealthy people, according to experts consulted by AFP.
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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he is ready to meet Debanhi's father, Mario Escobar, when he visits Monterrey on Friday.
Interest in the Debanhi case has crossed the country's borders, from Peru to the United States.
In 2021 alone, 3,751 women were murdered, including 1,004 cases considered femicides, and nearly 100,000 disappeared.
