They raped more than 50 women in CDMX but were caught thanks to the DNA Bank

In the Monthly Progress Report on the Actions of the Violence Against Women Alert of Mexico City, the Attorney General of Justice, Ernestina Godoy Ramos, highlighted this Friday that the ADN Bank has helped to resolve three main cases of assaults against women, including that of a male who between 2012 and 2021 assaulted 34 women.

“We have solved some important cases: the case of the serial rapist of Periphérico (...) we have now been linked by 17 investigative folders and we are in the process of linking the rest; we were also able to solve the case of the serial rapist of Grand Canal, Daniel 'N', a man who from 2020 to last year had assaulted 15 women between 15 and 23 years old in the mayor's office Gustavo A. Madero; lastly, the feminicide Arturo'N', who killed three women in 2016, 2018 and 2020 ″, he said.

The DNA Bank is one of the actions contemplated in the Declaration of Alert and which will have the capacity to process 6,000 genetic profiles per month when it operates at 100 percent.

Godoy Ramos also pointed out that from January 2019 to February this year, the Attorney General's Office has managed to link 7,122 perpetrators of women to the trial; this includes all cases of all types of gender-based violence, ranging from harassment, abuse, family violence, to femicide.

In this regard, he highlighted that by February of this year, 12 people have been arrested for the crime of femicide, which represents an increase of 500 percent compared to the same period in 2019.

“With this, we want to make it clear that whoever takes the life of a woman in this city will have no rest and there will be no place where the action of justice is hidden or evaded,” he said.

On her occasion, the Secretary for Women, Ingrid Gómez Saracíbar, said that there are currently 199 people in the Sex Offenders Registry.

“We have 119 records of people who committed sexual abuse, 33 in matters of qualified rape and 15 in equal rape,” he said.

In addition, it recognized the alliance established with the hotel sector in Mexico City through the Hotel Seguro program, in which the Attorney General's Office of Justice, the Secretariat of Tourism, the Secretariat of Citizen Security and the Citizen Council for Security and Justice of Mexico City also participate.

“The Hotel Seguro strategy whose primary objective was the prevention of various gender-based crimes in accommodation spaces, based on information, awareness and training. We work with nothing more and nothing less than 466 lodging,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Undersecretary for Institutional Development of the Ministry of Citizen Security, Marcela Figueroa Franco, said that since the creation of the Gender Unit in that unit, 44 percent of the 625 complaints received from women have been completed in December 2019.

“Today there are 182 police officers sanctioned, including 45 dismissed for having committed violence against women. So far this year, in just three months, 60 percent of police officers have already been dismissed compared to what was achieved in 2021,” he said.

The event was attended by the Secretary of Government, Martí Batres Guadarrama; the thirty-third judge of the Accusatory Criminal Procedure System of the Judiciary of Mexico City, Elisa Vázquez Sánchez; the Public Policy Coordinator for the Eradication of Violence of the National Commission on the Prevention and Eradication of Violence against Women, Sayda Yadira Blanco Morfín; UN Women Representative in Mexico, Belén Sánz Luque; and the Director General of the Mexico City Hotel Association, Alberto Carlos Albarrán Leyva.

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