Little is known about the 48 hours that María Ángela Olguín spent in an undisclosed location between Thursday afternoon and Saturday afternoon last week. The only certainties help to know more what didn’t happen than what could have happened in that period. She was found with signs of violence and bound hand and foot in a field in Nezahualcóyotl, 30 kilometers from where she was last seen. The latest official information released this Monday by Mexico City’s Attorney’s Office rules out any history of an organized mafia dedicated to kidnapping women near the Indios Verdes station, where the 16th… -year-old Olguín was kidnapped. In a brief statement, the spokesman for the public prosecutor, Ulises Lara, called on the population to distrust these rumours, although he avoided specifying whether a criminal group could be behind the crime in this specific case. No arrests at the moment.
“It is important to mention that the prosecutor’s office has not documented a similar case in this area and there are no records of crimes related to the absence of girls, women or youth near the Modal Transfer Center or the Indios Verdes Convergence Zones. ‘ Lara assured. “It is essential to point this out so that citizens do not pay attention to rumors being spread about the presence of a gang or criminal group operating with this modus operandi in the region,” he concluded.
The possibility of having been a victim of sexual violence, a hypothesis that has surrounded the case from the beginning, has not yet been confirmed by the authorities, although a prosecutor’s source has told this newspaper that it is one of the unknowns who is investigating will. “The youngster has undergone medical and psychological evaluations to review her condition, all with a gender perspective, to determine the possible commission of criminal behavior against her,” Lara said in the agency’s statement. In an interview with EL PAÍS, Rocío Bustamante, Holguín’s mother, said that her daughter noticed that “someone had bitten her arm”. For example, prosecutors have not ruled out an investigation that the minor may have been subjected to some form of chemical subjugation.
Nezahualcóyotl Municipal Police Director Vicente Ramírez told El Universal that the teenager said she was being held in a dark room with two other girls. Tonatzin Blanco, 11 years old, and Gabriela Giselle Cabrera, 14 years old, disappeared within 24 hours in the same town hall as Olguín, Gustavo A. Madero. The public prosecutor’s office only confirms that they are investigating in this regard.
The whole case is shrouded in a fog that doesn’t completely dissipate. Olguín disappeared around 5.20pm on Thursday, the rush hour when the Indios Verdes train station, a key link between the capital and suburban communities, is packed with passengers returning home after work. His mother left for a moment to go to the bathroom. When he left, his daughter was gone. Nobody saw anything, but the surveillance cameras later revealed that a man took her away, according to Olguín’s parents’ story.
The next 48 hours were heartbreaking for the family. His relatives and dozens of people blocked traffic on the Mexico-Pachuca highway and blocked the exit of the truck station over the weekend to put pressure on the authorities. In a country with more than 100,000 missing people and where 10 women are murdered every day, the unjustified absence of a daughter under suspicious circumstances usually bodes ill. But against all odds, Olguín was found Saturday afternoon in a field in Nezahualcóyotl, a poor community in the state of Mexico that carries the stigma of insecurity. The teenager was lying in a fetal position, covered in plastic bags, according to El Universal. Her hands and feet were tied with shoelaces, and signs of violence were displayed on her body.
Lara has claimed that public facilities provide “emotional, social, and logistical support” to her family. “The purpose is to establish how events unfolded after his absence was reported. Investigative teams have gone to where it was located [Olguín] and various cabinet and field analyzes are being conducted, as well as video cameras, to deepen what the youth has pointed out.” The spokesman has indicated that one of the lines of investigation is the geolocation of the minor’s phone to try to trace their whereabouts during the 48 hours of the kidnapping.
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