Mother Denounces Rape Of Her Teenage Daughter

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in Honduras to demand justice for Alejandra, a 16-year-old teenager who was drugged and raped in La Ceiba. Her mother, the Honduran judge Flor de María Sosa, was with her daughter and the rest of the family on vacation in a villa in La Ceiba when a tragedy occurred. Her mother asked Alejandra to go look for other relatives at the resort and the young woman met "a well-known person who very skillfully deceives her and takes her to a villa," Sosa told Primer Impacto (Univision).

As time passed and the teenager did not return, her family began looking for her until her mother received a call from someone who had found her. The mother found her daughter in a villa with visible signs of having been drugged. The young woman told her that several young men had raped her and asked her not to let her fall asleep so that she could tell everything before forgetting the facts. "The first impression it gives me is what we later confirm with the doctors: the outrage, the rape and all the humiliations of what my daughter was a victim at the time these people had her," Sosa added to the program.

Sosa is a lawyer and head of the domestic violence court in La Ceiba and filed a complaint, demanding justice for her daughter. Medical analysis reveals that the teenager was given a drink with a drug and that she was sexually abused. However, several weeks after the complaint, none of the alleged suspects has yet been detained. "It is feared that these people could be interfering in the investigation process," added the mother.

A host of Hondurans have taken to the streets with the "We are all Alejandra" sign demanding a punishment for their rapists, who could be 15 to 20 years in prison if captured. Campaigns against sexual abuse of Hispanic women also circulate on social media.

Merly Eguigure, coordinator of the Women's Movement for Peace reports that in the last decade the Public Ministry of Honduras has processed some 17,000 complaints of sexual violence against minors and that most of these crimes remain unpunished. "We need a penal code that severely punishes women abusers," concludes the activist.