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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some may recall the beheading of four mexican women that was all over You Tube for awhile
She packed her things and went to meet a guy. She was upset with her parents because he dumped her.
Perhaps these parents should quit reading these girls Cinderella and read them The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck.
real numbers are probably higher. I was in El Paso for two years from 1994-96. Remember reading a Mexican paper article about over 300 girls who had gone missing in Juarez in less than a year. They uncovered a police/drug/gang/ring that had been kidnapping girls and killing them in ritualistic parties. Mexican papers don’t hold back showing pics of the murder victims.
Mexico, like many former European colonies, is just reverting to what it was before Europeans brought Christianity to them.
When I drive into Mexico for work, I have to stop at the immigration office and pay my fees. The walls are COVERED with posters with missing girls. Many girls willingly crossed into Mexico to visit friends and family and just disappeared. I was offered a transfer (and a bonus) to live in Laredo and work in Mexico, but I turned it down. No way in hell I’m moving my wife and two daughters within 200 miles of that border.
the should contact our immigration department. Do they fingerprint, photograph and take DNA samples? Rhetorical question.
Few of the girls are runaways. We’re already aware of how the kidnappers operate. Some try to entice girls with jobs and other ploys. Others operate more like ISIS by simply grabbing them and running. Many of the girls are the kind who avoid parties and are kidnapped in rural areas, when they walk some little distance from their houses.
The kidnappers need to be put in the ground. In at least one state, kidnappers can legally be shot in the act. Readers here should check the statutes of their own states. Police agencies should start baiting the kidnappers, before others do.
Girls are also being kidnapped in states far from the southern border.
I ran into an expat, woman and she said down there she was nearly abducted if not for a good Samaritan chasing off the crook and rescuing her.
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.
In short, this really is the word “Machismo”, being Macho we’ve heard about but in a very ugly sense.
real numbers are probably higher. I was in El Paso for two years from 1994-96. Remember reading a Mexican paper article about over 300 girls who had gone missing in Juarez in less than a year. They uncovered a police/drug/gang/ring that had been kidnapping girls and killing them in ritualistic parties. Mexican papers don’t hold back showing pics of the murder victims.
People don’t even want to know what goes on there. Some US companies, when doing work in Mexico, at least the El Paso/Juarez area, send their workers over in Armored Cars, I’ve been told bodies are routinely found down there buried forget about out in the desert, in the city itself.
Now, this phenomenon has shown up in other Latin American countries, the truth is, I think it was down there previously but just not identified as such.
Once, someone was going through stats and then, this must have been in the early or mid ‘90s, they noticed, “Hey, the missing rate for women is uncommonly high”, it took them awhile to get it.
i am somewhat confused. i always thought most of mexico was a dump, now this article says these kids have internet, facebook and x-box. just get rid of these computers and internet and watch the worlds troubles go away.
“These are the kind of people Obama wants to give amnesty to.” Not just the Kenyan clown-in-chief, and not just Democrats.
Maybe so but the ones in this story are indeed runaways.
Saying that they were kidnapped is not accurate.
Some try to entice girls with jobs and other ploys.
These are the methods mentioned and they are not kidnapping. They are also the easiest to defend against. It is up to the girls families to teach them not to go off with strange men.
Others operate more like ISIS by simply grabbing them and running. Many of the girls are the kind who avoid parties and are kidnapped in rural areas, when they walk some little distance from their houses.
Different situation then those in this article. And that is indeed kidnapping.
What you are suggesting is nice but unlikely to happen in Mexico.
Wow.
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