Posted on 09/14/2015 3:42:08 PM PDT by Theoria
Thousands of women and girls disappear in Mexico every year - many are never seen alive again. When one couple realised their daughter was missing, they knew they didn't have long to find her.
Elizabeth realised something was terribly wrong within 15 minutes of her teenage daughter, Karen, disappearing.
"I just knew it, I had an anguish that I'd never felt before. I searched the streets, called friends and family, but no-one had seen her," she says.
"She'd gone to the public toilets with nothing - no money, no mobile phone, no clothes We thought she'd been kidnapped."
Karen disappeared in April 2013 when she was 14 - one of thousands of girls to have gone missing in recent years in Mexico state - a sprawling administrative region which wraps around the capital, Mexico City.
A staggering 1,238 women and girls were reported missing in the state in 2011 and 2012 - the most recent figures available. Of these, 53% were girls under the age of 17.
No-one knows how many have been found dead or alive, or are still missing. This is the most dangerous Mexican state to be a woman - at least 2,228 were murdered here in the past decade.
Elizabeth reported her daughter missing after three hours of frantic searching. But in Mexico police will not open a missing person's file until someone has been gone for 72 hours, not even for a child.
So, Elizabeth and her husband, Alejandro, started their own investigation, which began by going through their daughter's social network accounts.
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Lovely people. We should open our border with them even more.
Perhaps once we get 50% of Mexico living here in the US we can hope to attain similar numbers ... after all, it’s an “act of love” to kidnap the girls Americans don’t want to kidnap.
Maybe we need to send Mr Trump down there after he cleans up the USA
We should never have given any conquered territory back at the treaty of Veracruz.
Mexicans...kidnapping, raping, and murdering the underage girls Americans won’t.
They prey on innocent, naive girls and then smuggle them into the country and force them into prostitution. These are the kind of people Obama wants to give amnesty to.
Yeb says it’s love. Love. Love.
These girls went with these guys willingly.
They were not kidnapped, they ran away.
Perhaps instead of sheltering these girls they should have exposed them to the real danger out there. They should have explained to them that they were not all that special. Anyone who offers them a big shot career is not doing it because they are oh so talented.
And the elite thinks me an untermensch for being just a plain old white guy in a glorious sea of “diversity.”
So Yes, I will vote for the abrasive loose-cannon egomaniac.
It’s a combination of serial killers operating without a care in the world, and cartel kidnaping for sex-trafficking.
It makes me laugh when people treat Mexico as anything but a failed state.
The Mexican culture is terrifically violent toward women.
Drinking and driving, wife-beating, and child-molesting = weekend hobbies for far too many Mexican men in the USA. Can’t be any better in their home country.
Just saying that these girl went with these men willingly.
One girl was all upset with her parents because her pimp dumped her.
A secure fence would slow down some of this horror.
Oh, no! Mr. Trump is a racist, non-lover! Jeb Bush, at 1%, says so!
When a 15 year old girl willingly leaves on her fantastical journey to stardom with her internet Don Juan I am supposed to be upset that the government of Mexico does not pull out all the stops to retrieve her?
Did they check the United States? We seem to have an unexpected number of Mexicans in the country.
Really? 15 year old girls “going willingly”?
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