Posted on 07/29/2015 7:15:39 AM PDT by keat
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Five men in northern Mexico were sentenced to an unprecedented 697 years in prison for the gender-driven killing of 11 women, in a state where hundreds of young women have been murdered since 1990.
The sentence was the longest-ever given for a femicide, the killing of a woman due to her gender and was based on scientific evidence, said an official at the attorney general's office in the state of Chihuahua, home of the border city of Ciudad Juarez, which in 2008 recorded one woman missing each day.
"They used ploys to recruit young women into prostitution and drug distribution," Chihuahua's attorney general's office said in a statement. "Then, when they were no longer 'useful,' they took their lives and threw their bodies in the Navajo Arroyo, in the Valley of Juarez."
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Why not just hang them for murder?
No death penalty in Mexico?
Sheesh. I guess no one can just be "murdered" anymore.
At the least, I have a friend who told me a tale, that if I didn’t know him, I wouldn’t believe him.
He, doing work for a company in Juarez were taken in armored vehicles from El Paso to the place they did their computer work. He also said when the company (it’s in the medical business) built their plant down there, they found bodies on the ground there!
It’s really bad and these femicidios if one looks into it have happened all over Mexico though Juarez became kind of famous for it.
Hundreds of women have gone missing, glad they caught these guys but in the grand scheme of things, it may not make that much of a dent.
Another decent article: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/02/did-mexican-cops-help-kill-the-girls-of-juarez.html
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