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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | February 2008 
Mexico Creates Prosecutor Position on Crimes Against Women
 E. Eduardo Castillo - Associated Press Writer
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Mexico City — Mexico has created a new federal position to prosecute violence and exploitation against women and children, the government has announced.
The position comes as human rights groups urge the federal government to do more to investigate the killings of women, especially along the northern border.
The new position will replace a similar post created in 2006 and will add child sex and labor exploitation to its caseload.
The new prosecutor, Guadalupe Morfin — who previously served in a similar post aimed at combatting violence against women in the border city of Ciudad Juarez — will report to Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora.
Since 1993, an estimated 423 women have been killed in Ciudad Juarez, across the U.S. border from El Paso, Texas — at least 89 between 2004 and 2008, the National Human Rights Commission reported Tuesday.
Medina Mora told Radio Formula that he welcomes the expanded role for his office.
Human exploitation "is a serious problem that we see daily, and we don't have the adequate structure to deal with it," he said.
Earlier, Commission President Jose Luis Soberanes called the investigations into the Juarez deaths "terrible."
In about 100 of the killings, women were abducted, often sexually abused and strangled before their bodies were dumped in the desert. Many were last seen in the city's downtown area or taking buses, and their bodies often did not resurface for months. |
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