“It was a kidnapping and murder”: Debanhi Escobar's father confirmed 3 autopsies on his daughter's body

The Prosecutor General's Office of the State of Nuevo León (FGE) rescued Debanhi's body and carried out the first autopsy that determined a blow to the head as the cause of death, there are other lines of investigation that could disqualify this option, including some initiated by the family itself outside the authorities.

According to Debanhi Escobar's father, in an interview with Azucena Uresti during his Radio Formula program, the first to perform an autopsy on his daughter's body were the experts of the local Prosecutor's Office at the Forensic Medical Service (Semefo).

Once the body was removed from the sewer where he was found, he was immediately transferred, all without his parents being present, according to Mario Escobar's recent narratives, so he turned to other experts to determine the cause of his daughter's death.

The man told the journalist that for his part, a couple of extra autopsies were carried out. The first was requested by a forensic woman from the National Search Commission, and a second one that was carried out by an external expert who was used by the family of the 18-year-old girl.

He also confirmed that the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), president of Mexico, made available to Debanhi's relatives “another type of investigation”, which he did not specify, but the body was already in an advanced state of decomposition, and they preferred to bury him.

He also indicated that it was not until Governor Samuel García and his wife, Mariana Rodríguez, arrived in the area that their experts were able to access Semefo, that the people in charge of it did not give them permission to access the body.

“This is a murder, it was a kidnapping and a murder by bad people, who we haven't hurt, we've never hurt anyone,” said Mr. Mario Escobar.

Although she did not give any further information to the Mexican journalist, during her daughter's funeral she referred to those gathered, among family, friends, acquaintances and people who joined in the search and support for Escobar's parents, and revealed that the cause of death confirmed by the Prosecutor's Office could be wrong.

He assured that although the Prosecutor's Office reported that he died from a blow to the head, the reality is different, since at least what he was able to observe during the identification of the body, there were indications that she was allegedly suffocated.

“They beat her in the face, suffocated her. That the prosecution wants to issue a statement saying that she died of a bruise, from a blow to the head, and it's a total lie because we saw her. We were not afraid to see her”, were Mr. Mario's clarifications.

On the other hand, he asked all those present in the place, and the general public to whom the message could reach, that “we must take care of each other”, because that is the only way, he stressed, “we will have a better quality of life”.

Debanhi Escobar's body was finally veiled on Saturday 23, 2022 at 8:00 a.m., when the body mass began at the Capillas del Carmen, in the center of the City of Monterrey, in the state of Nuevo León.

Omar Tamez, the Federal Delegate of the International Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), gathered there, who revealed signs of sexual abuse in the case, but asked to wait until the second inquiry.

Debanhi's body was buried in the municipality of Galeana, where his mother, Dolores Bazaldúa, is a native. After a procession in which several people close to the victim participated, the attendees withdrew from the pantheon to continue privately with the memorial events.

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