kidnapped girls from 12 to 17 years of age; used, abused and killed

 

At a press conference, the general coordinator of grassroots advocates, Teresa Ulloa Zíaurriz, explained that the phenomenon is observed in almost all the republic and it is estimated that nearly 800 young people missing. On behalf of the Regional Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Mexican Chapter heads, said that in Mexico is estimated at nearly 500 thousand the number of women and girl victims of trafficking. However there is a huge black figure, which could be up to 80 percent, while the differences in local laws facilitate the commission of such crimes. In this regard, he called to approve laws and their implementation, as noted for example cases such as Veracruz, where legislation to protect women and girls from human trafficking ‘is laughable. “ Also stressed that laws are required to link the criminal groups trafficking in persons, as pointed out that the new form of organized crime is very serious and remain unpunished because the families are “paralyzed by terror.” The phenomenon occurs in Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosi, Durango, Zacatecas, Hidalgo, Mexico, Chiapas and Quintana Roo, where organized crime chooses to work as young hawks, assassins and sex slaves, he said. When the criminal group was tired of them, they ‘just’ killed them, but authorities did not want to see the issue as part of organized crime. He noted that feminist groups are aware of 400 cases only in Caborca, Sonora, while girls in Durango do not want to go to school because they know that criminals observe them when they want to choose the most beautiful. Therefore, Ulloa Zíaurriz insisted that the House of Representatives must approve before January 12 a law against trafficking in persons, which approves the criteria to facilitate the prosecution of crime. States must also have prosecutors, offices and sufficient funding and that this is accompanied by a substantial change to sex education in schools, which today is limited to the reproductive only, without generating values.