Catholic Church calls for reflection after Camila’s death in Taxco

MEXICO CITY.- After the kidnapping and murder of the girl Camila in Taxco, Guerrerothe Catholic Church He called for reflection and highlighted to Mexican society that “violence generates more violence.”

Camila’s case shook Taxco, first because of the disappearance and death of the minor; later by the lynching of those allegedly responsible, resulting in a woman dying as a result of her injuries.

Catholic Church regrets Camila case

“While the Catholic world celebrated Holy Week, an event focused media attention in Mexico: the death of Camila, an eight-year-old girl, and the lynching of those allegedly responsible for her death in Taxco, Guerrero.”

This is what the church makes known in its editorial From Faith.

The clergy affirmed that the Camila case in Taxco highlighted several of the problems that have fractured the Mexican social fabric, which concern the State authorities, the political class, the security institutions as well as the citizens.

“What do we need as a society to realize that by allowing these events we are destroying ourselves little by little?” the Catholic Church questioned in its editorial.

“How many more dead girls? How many more lynchings? How many more injustices? When will we understand that violence only generates more violence?”

The institution stressed that we have placed a tombstone of “selfishness, fear and bitterness, suffering and death, which closes the path to joy and hope.”

These actions block “the space for a better future, which prevents building a society in which the common good is prioritized, that dignifies life, and that gives certainty to our children, adolescents and young people.”

Camila Case in Taxco, Guerrero

In case of Camila Gómez Ortega, An eight-year-old girl kidnapped and murdered in Taxco, Guerrero caused outrage in her community, whose anger culminated in the lynching of those allegedly responsible.

Camila was deprived of her freedom and murdered at the home of a friend of the same age, presumably by the minor’s mother and two other relatives, following asking for a reward of 250 thousand pesos.

The little girl’s body was found one day following her disappearance, on Wednesday, March 27, with signs of strangulation in her Cuernavaca-Taxco highway.

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