Indignation and mourning has taken over the streets of Tulyehualco, where he lived Fatima Aldrighett, the seven-year-old girl who was picked up by a stranger in her school and then appeared brutally murdered and among rubble inside a garbage bag.
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The case of the minor also generated consternation throughout Mexico, since his homicide adds one more to the registry of 1,006 feminicides that occurred in 2019. And the number could be higher, because the country – like other Latin Americans – has deficiencies in its Criminal Code to criminalize this recurring crime that in most cases goes unpunished.
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The feminicide of Fatima Cecilia Aldrighett Antón also occurs less than a week after dozens of women took to the streets to protest another murder, that of the 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla, which was dismembered by her partner. These two crimes and the dozens of murdered women who join each day, kept in the streets of Tulyehualco the cry of “justice!”.
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