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    New Prosecutor in Mexican Border Slayings Emphasizes Prevent

    Jun 2, 2005

    New Prosecutor in Mexican Border Slayings Emphasizes Prevention
    By Morgan Lee
    Associated Press Writer


    MEXICO CITY (AP) - A newly appointed special prosecutor assigned to investigate 12 years of killings of women in Ciudad Juarez announced on Thursday a new emphasis on stopping more killings.
    "A priority of my new commission will be to promote the work of prevention," said Mireille Roccatti said in her first press conference as special prosecutor.

    "We have to create a culture of prevention. We have to stop the violence against the women," she said.

    A law professor who examined the killings of women in Juarez before as president of Mexico's National Human Rights Commission from 1997 to 1999, Roccatti said there now is a greater public mandate for federal authorities in Juarez, where state authorities have led probes because homicide is a state-level crime.

    Roccatti pledged close cooperation with Guadalupe Morfin, president Vicente Fox's special commissioner for the prevention of violence against women in Ciudad Juarez, located across from El Paso, Texas.

    Federal and state authorities say 363 women have been killed in Ciudad Juarez over the past 12 years, Roccatti said. Charges have been presented to a judge in 232 cases, with some cases including more than one suspect, she said.

    Public attention has focused on about 100 eerily similar cases: slender young women sexually assaulted, strangled and dumped in the desert.

    President Fox this week announced that a majority of the killings of women in Juarez over the past 12 years have been solved and suggested the matter had been blown out of proportion, angering activists and victims' family members.

    Roccatti said she would pick up investigative work where her predecessor, Maria Lopez Urbina, left off.

    Lopez Urbina spent just over a year on the job and had faced mounting criticism that she had made little progress.

    She initially said her objective was to study all cases, find the gaps in the investigations and make recommendations to state authorities. She quickly established a DNA data bank and a victims' registry and examined 205 slayings.

    Lopez Urbina's office only took over 22 of the investigations and although she recommended criminal charges be filed against 41 of the 143 state officials under investigation, so far only two have been charged with negligence.

    AP-ES-06-02-05 1104EDT

    This story can be found at: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBCB3D4H9E.html
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    "We have to create a culture of prevention. We have to stop the violence against the women," she said.

    Good idea, it has only been going on for 12 years.
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