With violent deaths, 64% of femicides of girls and adolescents in Mexico

Nail violent death is one in which pain is inflicted by shots, chokeholds, suffocation oh poisoning. This is how most women are killed. girls and teenagers in Mexicoeven if the specialists consider that the data concerning femicide of this sector are underestimated.

under the International Women’s Dayon 8M, the Belisario Domínguez Institute of the Senate of the Republic revealed in a report that in the case of femicides of women from 0 to 17 years old, these occur by violent deathsexceeding these figures to those of sexist murder knife and gun.

Based on data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), the report which includes figures from 2015 to 2022 indicates that 15.2 percent of the femicide they occurred with a knife and 13.6% were caused by a firearm.

Considering only the femicide of girls and teensthe report points out that the most violent years for them it was the years 2020 and 2021, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and where there was a breakthrough.

Thus, in 2015, 50 murders were recorded, and from then on, the number increased and then remained relatively stable: 55 in 2016; 66 in 2017; 83 in 2018; while in 2019the first year of the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador 95 were registered; in 2020, 115; in 2021, 11 were registered, and 95 in 2022.

To this they added 670 femicides of minors during the eight years of data collected by the SESNSP, which places the State of Mexico as the most violent entitywith a total of 116.

This entity is the only one to have three-digit data concerning femicidebeing far behind the States of Jalisco with 49 and Veracruz with 58.

On the other hand, some entities that stand out in this same field They don’t have feminicide records among minors, such as Baja California Sur. In a similar situation are the states of Tlaxcala and Yucatán, which have only one case each.

These figures show the magnitude of the extreme violence which is exercised in Mexico against girls and adolescents and underline the urgent need to analyze and establish preventive strategies and criminal justice more effective,” says the report by the Belisario Domínguez Institute.

Among its conclusions, the study points out that specialists have recognized a under estimation official figures on femicide in the country against this segment of the population, which could be due to deficiencies search folder integrationbut also at the level of judicial systems and the sentences they pronounce around cases.

According to the Network for Children’s Rights in Mexico (Redim), the teenage girls and women are most affected by violence in the country, with the warning that the killings of girls and teenagers with guns during the current six-year term have increased.

But this organization has also issued various warnings about the crimes against children. In its latest report, published last January, it revealed that four crimes increased: extortion, homicide, injury and human trafficking.

In addition to highlighting the increase in homicides, they detected an increase in the number of children and adolescents who were returnees from the United Statesas well as acts of discrimination.

Although there is so far only data from the SESNSP with a delay of one month from January of this yearthe data indicates that in the first 31 days of the year there were a total of 68 feminicides, considering those that were perpetrated with bladed weapons, firearms, with other elements and those in which it has not been documented. All this, taking into account all age groups.