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The women vanishing without a trace[Mexico]
BBC ^ | 14 Sept 2015 | Nina Lakhani

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: crime; humantrafficking; mexico; rape
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1 posted on 09/14/2015 3:42:08 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria

Lovely people. We should open our border with them even more.


2 posted on 09/14/2015 3:43:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Theoria

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.


3 posted on 09/14/2015 3:45:23 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Theoria

Maybe we need to send Mr Trump down there after he cleans up the USA


4 posted on 09/14/2015 3:45:27 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: Theoria

We should never have given any conquered territory back at the treaty of Veracruz.


5 posted on 09/14/2015 3:51:13 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Political Correctness is Supression of Free Speech. Thank the Commies for Political Correctness.)
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To: Theoria

Mexicans...kidnapping, raping, and murdering the underage girls Americans won’t.


6 posted on 09/14/2015 3:51:31 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Theoria

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.


7 posted on 09/14/2015 3:51:46 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: Theoria

Yeb says it’s love. Love. Love.


8 posted on 09/14/2015 3:52:10 PM PDT by samtheman (2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
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To: Theoria
I am not unsympathetic to the parents but....

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.

9 posted on 09/14/2015 3:53:13 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Theoria

And the elite thinks me an untermensch for being just a plain old white guy in a glorious sea of “diversity.”


10 posted on 09/14/2015 3:54:06 PM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: Theoria
The American elites are in a headlong rush to end the United States in favor of a merged nation with Mexico.

So Yes, I will vote for the abrasive loose-cannon egomaniac.

11 posted on 09/14/2015 3:56:35 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason)
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To: Theoria

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.


12 posted on 09/14/2015 3:57:02 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

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.


13 posted on 09/14/2015 3:59:05 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason)
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To: Dagnabitt
Not disputing that.

Just saying that these girl went with these men willingly.

One girl was all upset with her parents because her pimp dumped her.

14 posted on 09/14/2015 4:04:13 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Theoria

A secure fence would slow down some of this horror.


15 posted on 09/14/2015 4:05:40 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (BINGO!)
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To: Cyman

Oh, no! Mr. Trump is a racist, non-lover! Jeb Bush, at 1%, says so!


16 posted on 09/14/2015 4:06:14 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Theoria
they're prolly somewhere on the darkweb
17 posted on 09/14/2015 4:31:59 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Theoria

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?


18 posted on 09/14/2015 4:34:29 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Theoria

Did they check the United States? We seem to have an unexpected number of Mexicans in the country.


19 posted on 09/14/2015 4:38:37 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Really? 15 year old girls “going willingly”?


20 posted on 09/14/2015 4:59:45 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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