The young university student, Santiago N, 18 years old, arrested for the rape committed against a student from the Faculty of Law of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (UASLP), could receive a sentence of up to 20 years in prisonreported the state prosecutor, Manuela García Cázares. He added that there are two more fugitives involved – one of them a minor.
He abuse occurred last October 17between 4:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., when the victim, 18 years old, in the third semester, was in a space destined for the Potosina University Federationwith the three young people –two students of the program and a third external–, the official explained.
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He case was reported to university authorities by another student who witnessed part of the attack, since it occurred in an office whose walls are made of glass.
García Cázares explained that the student filed the complaint one day after the events before the Women’s Prosecutor’s Officein the company of his mother.
He explained that the young victim states that she was in the company of three people, who they gave him alcoholic beverageswhich kept her in a situation of vulnerability that leads to sexual violence.
Outrage erupts
A student of the Law schoolwho participated in the seizure of the property, narrated in a video published on Facebook that he could not believe that the directors were not aware that substances are consumed in the facilities and that reports have already been seen in other faculties.
A video circulates on social networks in which a student rebukes the now former director of the Faculty of LawGermán Pedroza Gaitán, for the rape, as he highlighted that the case was reported by a media outlet and he did nothing about it: “They tried to leave it in the shadows, in the high university circles”.
Mass protests
Due to this sexual abuse, various faculties remain unemployed. The students of Psychology, Social Sciences and Humanities, Rights and Sciences They reaffirmed the continuity of the movement and distanced themselves from the violent acts that occurred in other locations.
With posters and slogans, the student community took to the streets this tuesday for demand justice for the student and for demand the resignation of the rector of the UASLPAlejandro Zermeño Guerra.
Yesterday afternoon, a student group called to demonstrate with their faces covered “for safety”, although they did not receive any response.
heads fall
Given the outrage that the case caused, Zermeño Guerra requested the dismissal of director Pedroza Gaitánas well as the dismissal of the head of the Office of the Ombudsman of University Rights, Magdalena González Vega, and other officials of the same institute.
In a statement, the university took responsibility “due to their lack of effective action, their re-victimization and the absence of protocols with a gender perspective.”
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OTHER
“It is not something that is only limited to this faculty (Law), many reports have already been seen, in Habitat, in Nursing, they are not isolated cases”
Student at the Faculty of Law
“The girl (victim) was in a vulnerable state (…) the Prosecutor’s Office will not leave this fact unpunished, we will continue with the search for the other participants”
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466
simple violations have been reported in SLP from last January to September: Executive Secretariat