Breathe
By Yohali Reséndiz
On the night of February 8, 2020, like many other nights, Ingrid Escamilla argued with Eric Francisco "N" in an apartment they shared in the Vallejo neighborhood of Gustavo A. Madero.
Several neighbors agreed that they heard her screams - which in this day and age must be a jolt.
Ingrid Escamilla's words were again of complaint towards Francisco "N" and just like other nights, the complaints went from desperation to pain...
Ingrid Escamilla's screams were echoes that cried out for help ... But no one did anything for her.
She's to blame! It's nothing, she's always like that! What's the point of getting involved if she goes back to him?
Listen to her, she's telling him that this time she's going to leave him! But I don't think so... In a while they'll be fine... What if we call a patrol car? No no, go to sleep now! The neighbors confessed and while life went on outside and inside the kitchen, the aggressor and partner of Ingrid Escamilla took her life with the conviction that he always had the right to subdue her and show her who was in charge.
Educate her.
Correct it with a moral superiority over it.
And as in most femicides, the murder of Ingrid Escamilla represented, once again, the failure of a man in the face of a woman.
What Eric Francisco "N" felt was immense frustration at not being able to subdue her and that is why specialists affirm that violent men decide to torture their victims psychologically and physically and that when there is no longer an effect on them that supports this violent behavior, they find no other way but to eliminate them.
So, that's what Francisco "N" did, eliminate it.
I still remember how I was shaken by her femicide and how, in order to write assertively, I arrived at the Institute of Forensic Sciences (INCIFO) and talked to the forensic experts who received her body.
"He certainly had great courage in facing the executioner" said one of them.
Ingrid, according to neighbors' testimonies, shouted to Francisco "N" that she wanted to be free, that she was ready to break up with him and never return.
And while silence reigned and most of those living in the city slept, Ingrid's body was tortured.
"It was the devil" said Francisco "N" in a statement and no, here nothing had to do with the devil but to show her that he still had power over her.
And since nothing lasts forever, the sunlight came from the hand of a society that did little to help Ingrid.
How many times will a woman have the right to return to the one she loves? How many times must be enough times to make up her mind not to return?
A shock but in the form of a video of Ingrid's confessed feminicide, a soulless being, describing without anesthesia and inhumanity what he had done to her and without pain was shared via whats app.
The leakage of the photograph of her body became in those days the frentazo of a society incapable of reacting, evading its responsibility and not acting, not looking, not listening and then remaining in the comfort of their personal shelters, ignoring any cry for help.
No one knocked on the door of that apartment to see if she needed anything, nor did anyone call the police. Because normalizing violence is something we do very well as a society. We love to look at other people's lives and not our own wrongs.
"I'm sorry, but I couldn't get in" is almost always a phrase that accompanies hate crimes.
Ingrid's body screamed, the necropsy would describe that she lost the battle at the hands of her assailant due to hemorrhage as she was grabbed from behind to make a couple of wounds with a sharp instrument that injured the structures of the carotid triangle.
In the palm of his hands there were defensive wounds, cuts from the instrument (knife), as a sign that he wanted to protect himself all the time.
Ingrid's body also registered that she had right-sided penetrating wounds to the thorax, meaning that after Eric Francisco "N" cut her neck, he injured her with the same knife at the level of the ribs and Ingrid went into a deep agonizing state.
The structures of the neck were deadly from the beginning and the instrument he used was with the decision to murder her.
She was not fully deceased when this pathological predator began to dissect her.
And no, he was not mentally ill, but in a momentary and conscious schizophrenic state, so much so that he was injuring Ingrid over and over again for hours (almost 7).
His hatred gave him strength. His dominance over her meant that after chipping away at her ribs with each sliver of skin he cut, he put his weight on top of her to break and separate them outward.
Ingrid Escamilla - 25 years old - received all the rancor and contempt that one person can show to another.
Leaving a "hole" in her thorax was a reflection of stripping her of everything, of making her as little as possible.
Humiliate her. Exhibit her violated body and demonstrate what a man on fire is capable of doing.
However, it should not be forgotten that Ingrid was not only abused by her partner, because upon arrival of the experts assigned to the case, who should have conducted a rigorous study with the purpose of contributing to clarify the facts based on scientific-technical data, they did not do their job well, because they forgot to perform the nail scrapings that could indicate that Ingrid had defended herself from the early stage of the discussion and her defense could prove that Erik Francisco "N" attacked her first at all times.
Those in charge of the expert's report, which plays a fundamental role in the criminal process, did not comply with the essential protocol in a femicide and did not provide the necessary elements for a clarification of the facts. However, they did provide video and photographic material that was distributed in seconds through cell phones and social networks.
So the experts did not respect Ingrid, nor the series of legal-technical rules that are needed for their investigation in the case to be in accordance with the law and for there to be no contamination, for evidentiary purposes, at the time we made public that the forensic experts forgot to perform a fundamental test on Ingrid.
And once again it was confirmed: those who murder women are not monsters or the devil, they are husbands, boyfriends, partners, neighbors, or friends.
Five years later, Ingrid, I do not forget you.
The opinions expressed are the responsibility of the authors and are absolutely independent of the position and editorial line of the company. Opinion 51.
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