Thread: Woman Raped & Left For Deal Along The Border

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/pls/impre ... abla=notas

Woman Raped, Left For Dead In Ciudad Jaurez Survives
AP
El Universal online
Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua

19:38 A woman who was raped, beaten and left for dead Thursday outside this city infamous for more than a decade of largely unsolved slayings against women survived and identified her attackers.

MarÃÂ*a Guadalupe Tobar, an 18-year-old employee at one of the assembly-for-export plants common along the Mexico-U.S. border, said she was abducted and raped by three male acquaintances several weeks ago.

She returned to the factory Thursday to quit her job, but the same assailants were waiting for her. This time they raped and beat her severely. Then, believing she had been killed, they dumped her in the countryside, near a highway south of Juárez.

Tobar was still alive when she was discovered by a passer-by, who called authorities. A criminal complaint she filed led to two arrests and police were searching for a third suspect in the case.

It was an unusual ending to an all-too familiar scenario of attacks against women in Juárez, a city of 1.2 million across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas.

Investigators say more than 350 women have been killed here since 1993. About 100 of those cases follow a similar pattern involving young women who were sexually assaulted, strangled and dumped in the desert.

Earlier Thursday, local police discovered the body of a 20-year-old who had been beaten to death and dumped on an unpaved street on the outskirts of the city.

The woman, who had yet to be identified, had bruises to her chest. She was found in the Colonia Aldama, a neighborhood plagued by street gang violence, said Claudia Bañuelos, a spokeswoman for state investigators in Chihuahua state, which includes Juárez.

Police were looking for an alleged gang member she was seen with, Banuelos said.

The 20-year-old, who was found laying in a fetal position, was reported to authorities by an anonymous caller. Bañuelos would not say whether the victim had been sexually assaulted.

sure just leave the ole border open so these fine fellows and come ago as they wish.