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19 Minors Victims of Femicide In The Last Six Years

by Q COSTARICA Saturday 2 February 2019, 5:15 pm 1.5k Views

In relating the story of Lucha Zapada and the apparent suicide of her 16-year-old granddaughter that to all her instincts of seeing her. bleeding out on the sidewalk while ‘cruzrojistas’ (paramedics) worked on her, she was murdered, a report in La Nacion reveals 19 young girls, all minors, were victims of femicide in the last six years.

The number represents 13% of all of the 145 femicides in the country between January 2013 and December 2018.
According to data from the Observatorio de Género del Poder Judicial (Gender Observatory of the Judiciary) and the judicial yearbooks of the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ), of the 14 femicides, 19 were of women under 18 years of age or minors.
This figure includes minors who died victims of their partners