TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Chis. (proceso.com.mx).- One year and 10 months following the medical intern, Mariana Sánchez Dávalos, was found dead in a community in the Selva Lacandona region, the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) gave learn that the doctor who harassed her was sentenced to three years in prison for the crime of sexual harassment.
On the morning of January 27, 2021, the medical student who was doing her social service in the Nueva Palestina community, in the municipality of Ocosingo, in the Selva Lacandona region, was found hanging in an apparent suicide.
Prior to her death, the young medical student had denounced that she was being harassed by a doctor who worked in the same workplace.
Although the Prosecutor’s Office initiated the investigation file for the crime of femicide, it might not link the process to the one previously indicated by the doctor, but following months of remaining on the run, the doctor was arrested and criminally prosecuted for the crime of sexual harassment.
On Friday, the Women’s Prosecutor’s Office obtained a conviction of three years in prison once morest Fernando “N”, for his criminal responsibility in the crime of sexual harassment, to the detriment of whoever in life responded to the name of Mariana “N”. , of events that occurred in the municipality of Ocosingo.
In addition, the judge imposed a fine of 50 Measurement and Update Units (UMA), for the events that occurred in November 2020 in the Nueva Palestina community, municipality of Ocosingo.
The Prosecutor’s Office keeps investigations open for the crime of femicide.
