On February 25th, Hilda Gabriela Rivas Campos (16 years old) left her home to seek work at a local market.
She was last seen by a friend who worked near the market, who Hilda asked to hold some work documents for her while she went with a man who had offered her money to intervene in a discussion with his wife. She has not been seen since that time.

Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa (NHDRC)has been working with the family and have tried different strategies for finding Hilda Gabriela but have had no results to date given some recent changes on how local authorities look for missing persons.

NHDRC tells us during the search for Hilda they found out that within the modifications that the “New Reformation to the Penal Justice System”
promoted by Patricia González, Attorney General of the State of Chihuahua, and that took effect January 1st; what before was the Office for the search of disappeared WOMEN, now is “Office for the search of absent and/or disappeared PEOPLE (now for the search of both women and men). This office only has three agents of the Public Ministry and eight investigating agents for the searches, according to data provided by Edith Acevedo of the same office.

All of which is insufficient to actually find missing people considering that now this office will have to look for all the missing people and not only women who disappear. Though this case is officially considered of high risk, since she disappeared in a zone where many women has been kidnapped, and her characteristics fit within the profile of most of the women who have been kidnapped and victims of serial sexual violence also known as femicides, Hilda Gabriela represents one of more than 40 reports of disappearances of women in 2008 up to this month of March.

For these reasons MSN joins NHDRC in requesting your urgent help in writing to the state Government and the Attorney Generals Office of the State of Chihuahua with the following demands:

A) Creation of a new office for the search of DISAPPEARED WOMEN, in the building with the Public Prosecutor of Crimes Against Women and the office of Attention to Victims, with ample and exclusive resources for its good operation.

The hiring and accreditation of at least two private investigators, experts in the search of disappeared women of high risk, that will in addition to current cases will investigate non-solved cases of homicides of women with sexual connotations or that do not correspond to domestic violence. These experts should not have previously worked somewhere of the Mexican Republic or in dependencies of the Mexican government.

C) A weekly meeting with the directors of the different police departments, as well as with representatives of the different government institutions that signed the Alba Protocol, with the purpose of accountability and implementation of strategies to find the disappeared minors, and to assure that everyone involved participates in their search.

ACTION: To communicate via telephone or email to the offices of the Attorney General of the State of Chihuahua with the Patricia González, for the purpose of demanding an urgent meeting between her, the Governor of the State of Chihuahua, and Nuestras Hijas de Regreso A Casa.

Contact info:
Attorney General:  M.D.P. Patricia González Rodríguez pagonzalez@buzon.chihuahua.gob.mx y  pagonzale@buzon.chihuahua.mx
 
Av. Vicente Guerrero 618, Col. Centro, 31000, Chihuahua, Chih.
 
Secretary: Lic. Rodolfo Leyva Martínez
r.leyva7@hotmail.com
 
Tel. For the offices of the State government of Chih.  01152 614 429 3300

 

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