Mexico: The increase in kidnappings of girls worries in the state of Baja California

In addition to having the dishonorable first place with the highest number of missing persons, the mexican state of Lower Californiais also the region of the country in which more girls between 12 and 17 years have disappeared in recent months, a problem that is increasing.

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A report by the Elementa DDHH organization over the last three years, and supported by the transparency platform, revealed this trend in the state, located in northwestern Mexico.

The results of this study “reveal a very serious problem”, because “it is putting on the table that there is a possible relationship with a trafficking issue that we are not talking about and I think that all this crosses the phenomenon of disappearance,” he said. in an interview with Efe Olimpia Martínez, collaborator in the Advocacy area of ​​Elementa DDHH.

THERE IS NO OTHER STATE WITH THOSE FIGURES

The activist also said that the results of the investigation indicate that “there is no other border state where particularly girls and women of that age range disappear.”

In Baja California, of the 14,426 disappeared registered by the organization, 44.9% are women between the ages of 12 and 17.

“In Chihuahua, Sinaloa and even Sonora, for example, the people who disappear are mostly men between 30 and 36 years old, but here (in Baja California) the trend is even upwards, more and more minors disappear in the state and could fall back on a trafficking issue,” said the activist.

Baja California currently has a Gender Alert, a set of emergency government actions to confront and eradicate femicide violence, which applies to all municipalities in the state, “which is symptomatic because the state occupies one of the most important places in national level in terms of the disappearance of women and girls,” he added.

THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE CONTINUES TO CRIMINALIZE

Consulted by Efe on this issue, the head of the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), Iván Carpio, accused that “there is an increasing participation of women in general both in the consumption of substances harmful to health, and in the participation of people with organized crime without distinction of gender.

Therefore, he said that it is difficult for the authorities to “protect those who are overexposed” with this type of behavior.

In addition, he said that “unfortunately the social fabric has a tendency in which both drug use and the participation of people in the sale of narcotics has no gender distinction and has allowed the participation of young people and not only of the male sex, but also of the female sex in a smaller percentage”.

For his part, Miguel Ángel Mora Marrufo, president of the Baja California State Human Rights Commission (CEDHBC), told Efe that the disappearance of minors “is a matter of concern” and that it has to be addressed because the statistics that are they have are an indicator of the seriousness of the problem and the lack of equality between the information of the groups and the official figures.

“According to the groups, there has been an increase in the disappearance of people under the age of 18 and what needs to be evaluated and known is precisely what the Federal Government has recognized about the more than 100,000 disappeared people in the country; Baja California is one of the states where there is a higher prevalence and it is necessary to strengthen the protection mechanisms for the search commissions and the prosecution”, he pointed out.

SIX GIRLS MISSING IN ONE MONTH

Only in the border city of Tijuana, there is an official record that indicates that between the months of May and June, six girls of this age range disappeared.

Socorro Guadalupe González Adame, 16, disappeared on May 16 and Layla Brianna Mejía, 14, disappeared on the 21st of the same month.

On May 23, Ana Carolina Moreno Salgado, 15, disappeared; On May 30, the case of Flor Citlalli Rojas Padilla, 16, who disappeared when she was on her way to school, and Anelis Mora Nape, 17, disappeared when she stayed to see a friend of she.

Meanwhile, on June 10, Victoria Alexandra Ramírez Valencia, 13, disappeared.

All of them currently have an Amber alert, which helps in the prompt location and recovery of children and adolescents, and to date nothing is known of the whereabouts of any of them and, according to some of the relatives, each one is looking for them. also on their own.

Source: Elcomercio

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