Credit: Facebook/Rivas Ale
The Attorney General’s Office of the State of Colima (FGE-Colima) reported that it has located the body of María José Rivas Gómez, a one-year-old minor who, along with her mother, Alejandra Rivas Gómez, was murdered, also noting that the alleged perpetrator is identified and located.
Through a statement, the agency indicated that after the complaint filed by relatives of the missing women, the Prosecutor’s Office began the investigation and search work that allowed the location of two bodies as well as the identification of the alleged perpetrator of the crime.
“As a result of intelligence work to locate people, the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), through the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Investigation of Disappearance of Persons, deployed various search operations in response to the complaint filed for the disappearance of a woman and her minor daughter, locating the lifeless bodies of the two aforementioned females on a property in the municipality of Cuauhtémoc, which were transferred to the Forensic Medical Service (SEMEFO), where security personnel “That area carried out the corresponding autopsies.”
Hours before, the family of both indicated that the minor was still missing, and they hoped to find her safe and sound despite having located the body of the 35-year-old woman. The FGE indicated that the intelligence and investigation work, both in the field and in the office, made it possible to obtain evidence data from the analysis of videos, geolocations, interviews and other indications, where this Prosecutor’s Office managed to have fully identified, as well as located, the alleged person responsible for these facts.
Credit: Search Commission of the State of Coahuila de Zaragoza Facebook
The investigations and judicialization of the case continue and the results will be reported at the procedural moment that allows it through official channels.
Alejandra and her baby, originally from Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, disappeared since November 1st when they traveled from Guadalajara to Colima, when they were allegedly searching for the minor’s father. On social networks, people ask for justice for the murder of both, and offer their condolences to the family.
In recent years, particularly since 2006, Mexico has suffered a crisis of violence in which an increase in high-impact crimes has been recorded, as well as reports of missing people.
According to the National Search Commission (CNB), in Mexico, from December 31, 1952 to October 21 of this year, the total number of missing, unlocated and located persons are 334,317. Of this figure, 116,603 people are missing, while 200,976 people have been located alive.
Children and adolescents are also victims of disappearance, a growing crime that is mainly related to violence generated by criminal organizations and organized crime, according to the Network for Children’s Rights in Mexico (REDIM).
