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Stephen Fox
Santa Fe New Mexico
[Esto es una carta para Julio Scherer Ibarra, Prosecutor] y Alejandro Gertz Manero [Attorney General of Mexico]
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Mexico News Daily
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/of-2300-crimes-against-women-only-94-went-unpunished/
Of 2,300 crimes against women last year, 94% went unpunished
Fewer than one in five perpetrators of femicide went to jail
Published on Monday, February 24, 2020
More than nine in 10 crimes committed against women in 2019 - not including femicides - went unpunished.
Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero told a gathering of female federal deputies on Friday that of 2,327 investigations into serious intentional crimes against women that were carried out last year, only 135 - 5.8% of the total - resulted in the imposition of prison sentences on the perpetrators.
The sentencing rate for femicides - murders of women and girls on account of their gender - was higher but still fewer than one in five perpetrators went to jail. Gertz said that there were 966 investigations into femicide last year and that sentences were imposed in 183, or 19%, of the cases.
Given the low sentencing rates, the attorney general said that law enforcement officials, including police and prosecutor's office employees, require urgent training in order to conduct more effective investigations. Those who deliberately obstruct justice or are negligent in the carrying out of their duties should face sanctions, Gertz said.
Institutional Revolutionary Party Deputy Mariana Rodrà guez Mier y Tera'n agreed that training for state authorities aimed at improving their investigative practices is essential.
"It's important to point out that the capacities [of authorities] are different in the different states," she said.
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