A suffocation by suffocation was the cause of the death of the young Mexican Debanhi Escobar18, found in April in a motel in the northern state of Nuevo León, forensic authorities reported Monday.
“There are the necessary and sufficient elements to establish that the cause of death of Debanhi Escobar was due to a asphyxiation by suffocation in its variety of obstruction of respiratory openings”, said the director of the Institute of Forensic Sciences of the Superior Court of Justice of Mexico City, Felipe Edmundo Takahashi.
It also indicated that “no type of evidence or finding was found that might support sexual violence, and the possibility of suffocation by submersion is eliminated”.
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The results of the new autopsy
With these results, those obtained by the first autopsy carried out by the Nuevo León Prosecutor’s Office are discarded, which determined that Debanhi had died from a “deep skull contusion”.
The new autopsy, the third in the case, was carried out to compare the forensic opinions, one from the State Prosecutor’s Office and another independent one requested by Debanhi’s relatives, who have differed on the cause of the young woman’s death.
“To me, regardless of whether the federal government, the state government or the Prosecutor’s Office finds the truth, what we want is the truth”, the young woman’s father, Mario Escobar, told the media on July 1 when his daughter’s remains were exhumed.
In addition, he indicated that he hoped that the new forensic opinion would reveal the true cause of Debanhi’s death, since the family does not agree with the expert opinion of the State Prosecutor’s Office.
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The Government of Mexico has promised to clarify the death of Debanhi, whose body appeared on April 21 in a cistern of a hotel in Nuevo León following having disappeared on April 9.
The death of the young woman caused an international stir due to the image that went viral of her abandoned on the road by a taxi driver who allegedly harassed her, and due to the alleged failures of the Nuevo León Prosecutor’s Office, which first investigated the case as an accident.
In Mexico, on average, more than 10 women are murdered each day between intentional homicides and femicides, murders classified by gender.
