Figures that hurt and a case that advances
Prosecutor Claudia Sánchez Kondo released the information: there have been 17 women murdered in Sinaloa this year. Of them, 14 are already classified as femicides. The research folders, he says, are open. Evidence, testimonies, expert reports are collected. The protocol, in theory, is followed.
But the numbers speak for themselves. Two months. Fourteen lives taken for the fact of being women. The judicial machinery turns, but the bleeding does not stop.
The face behind a number
The most recent case gave a name to the statistic: Rubí Patricia, a searching mother. She was found dead on February 27 in an apartment in Mazatlán.
“The accused, José Manuel ‘N’, 24 years old, after living with his girlfriend, went to the victim’s house, carrying a knife,” detailed the prosecution.
The toll was brutal: 14 injuries from a sharp weapon. At the initial hearing, the judge linked him to proceedings for aggravated femicide and gave him informal preventive detention. He and his lawyers reserved the right to testify.
A step in the legal labyrinth. A small glimmer of justice for a broken family. But the uncomfortable question remains: what about the other thirteen? And those to come?
The prosecutor presents actions. Mentions evidence, videos, elements that lead to the alleged perpetrator. Sounds like a system that works. But the macabre tally of the year—14 femicides in 60 days—screams otherwise.
They work with evidence collection, she says. Meanwhile, Sinaloa continues to add.
