Mexican judges resign amid outcry over ruling in girl’s death
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - Three judges have resigned following an uproar over their acquittal of a man in the killing of a teenage girl in northern Mexico.
The girl’s mother herself was then killed while staging a demonstration to protest the ruling. The man who was acquitted is also the main suspect in the mother’s death.
A statement late Monday from the Chihuahua state courts system says the judges resigned Friday. The Chihuahua legislature had impeached them in January.
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That was published yesterday. This one was published today:
Gunmen in Juárez kill relatives of witness in high-profile homicide caseA group of gunmen burst into a home in west Juárez late Tuesday and killed a woman and two men who were relatives of a witness in the well-known homicide case of Rubí Frayre.
Ernesto Valles Maciel, 21, Cirila Maciel García, 40 and Dámaso Maciel García, 35, were killed about 10:30 p.m. Police said Valles testified in the case of Frayre.
Frayre’s slaying in 2008 prompted her mother, Marisela Escobedo, to become an activist and an investigator. Protesting a judges’ decision to free the confessed killer of her daughter, Escobedo was slain in December in front of the Chihuahua Governor’s Palace.
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For the four previous articles on this tragic, convoluted case, including one about people on both sides asking for asylum in the US, click on the “Marisela Escobedo Ortiz” tag below. Also, see the sidebar list at the El Paso times, linked above.