Family buries Mexican teenager who has reignited anger over gender violence By Reuters

By Laura Gottesdiener

GALEANA, Mexico (Reuters) – Standing atop a windswept hill in northern Mexico, surrounded by dozens of fellow mourners, Mario Escobar ready to bury his teenage daughter, Debanhi, one of many newest victims of the nation’s disaster of violence in opposition to girls.

“We’re destroyed inside,” he mentioned. “We had a lot religion that we’d discover her alive, however that is not what occurred.”

The almost two-week seek for the 18-year-old regulation pupil who disappeared on April 9 close to the northern industrial metropolis of Monterrey has sparked new anguish and outrage over gender violence.

In Mexico, a mean of 10 girls a day are killed, and tens of hundreds extra are lacking. [L2N2WK2N3]

Multiple hundred relations, pals, and neighbors joined the funeral in Galeana, Nuevo Leon, the hometown of Debanhi’s mom the place the household typically spent weekends and holidays.

Singing hymns as they walked underneath the recent solar, the mourners carried white balloons and hand-written indicators demanding justice for Debanhi.

{The teenager}’s physique was discovered on Thursday evening submerged in a cistern contained in the grounds of a motel close to the place she was final seen alive.

The state lawyer common mentioned on Friday that the reason for demise was a contusion to the cranium and that each one strains of investigation have been open. On the funeral, Mario Escobar mentioned his daughter’s corpse had been “overwhelmed and strangled.”

Her demise got here amid a spate of disappearances of ladies within the state of Nuevo Leon. Because the starting of this 12 months, not less than 26 girls and women have disappeared, and 6 extra – together with Debanhi – have been discovered useless after being reported lacking.