Unfortunately, in Mexico, femicides are the daily bread, that is why the fight for justice for all victims continues and seems to be stronger than ever. It was recently revealed what could be a breakthrough or what can be seen as the first big step in this battle.
On March 23, with a total of 470 votes in favor, zero against and no abstentions, the Chamber of Deputies approved the Ingrid Law, a reform that imposes 4 to 10 years in prison and fines of 100 to 150 days value UMA to anyone, whether public servant or citizen in general, who disseminates images, videos or any type of information related to a criminal procedure.
The sanctions will be higher by 33 percent in the event that the information shared involves women, girls, boys, adolescents or people with disabilities.
This reform was promoted by civil society and bears the name “Ingrid” for the femicide of Ingrid Escamilla, the girl who was murdered by her partner in 2020. The case and the photographs of the body were widely disseminated on social networks during the February 2020, for which efforts were joined to seek to avoid the “revictimization” of people, especially women and their families.
Ingrid’s case was so outrageous for the morbidity and for promoting violence in society that in October 2021, the deputies Laura Imelda Pérez de Morena and Ana María Balderas from the PAN began to promote this reform.
It is essential to mark a before and after the case of Ingrid Escamilla. That those behaviors that are intended to cause harm be classified and punished, especially against women who are victims of femicide.
– Laura Imelda Pérez Segura
Although it has already been approved by the Chamber of Deputies, it still has to be discussed and endorsed by the Senate of the Republic. However, it is a great advance to sanction all those who leak information from the victims, which is mostly a recurring practice among police and public officials.
Although a reform has already been approved in her name, more than two years after the murder of Ingrid Escamilla, the case has not yet reached the trial stage against her murderer, since the hearings have been delayed by the pandemic.
However, at the time it was discovered that six agents from the Local Prosecutor’s Office were in charge of filtering the images of the body, for which one of them was prosecuted for being one of the first to arrive at the scene of the crime, so it was removed from office and charged with the crime of illegal exercise of public service, an offense that is punishable by up to three years in prison.
We can only hope that the reform is endorsed as soon as possible, in order to avoid more stories like Ingrid’s, which was exhibited in an unfortunate and tragic way.
Source: Okchicas
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