Commission on Gender Equality Reports 80 Percent of Rapes in Mexico Go Unpunished Hispanically Speaking News
go to original April 27, 2013

With more than 14, 000 reported rapes in Mexico last year, a whopping 80 percent remain unpunished. These statistics do not take into account the fantastic number of cases that go unreported. The Commission on Gender Equality and Chamber of Deputies legislative body reported these statistics today with disdain. There are several high profile cases involving foreign women, such as the Spanish in Acapulco, and there are even more reportedly committed by members of police forces.

In recent days there have been violations reported of foreign women and countrymen, committed by members of the municipal police in Cajeme, Sonora, Solidaridad, Quintana Roo, and Chimalhuacán, State of Mexico. There is another case of sexual abuse reported by a commander and two officers of the Municipal Public Security Solidaridad in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, against a woman of Italian nationality.

In the State of Mexico, on February 23 it was reported that three policemen in Chimalhuacán, were charged with violating a minor and of murdering her boyfriend.

Given this situation, the Commission on Gender Equality and passed a motion that strongly condemns rape and sexual abuse of foreign women as well as compatriots and minors.  While insisting that those public officials charged in these cases will be punished.

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