Breathe
By Yolanda Morales
It is the afternoon of Friday, October 4 in Tecate, Baja California, with tears and sobs, a young, grief-stricken mother asks for justice. The reason? Just last September 18, a hooded man entered Ariday's family's home through the back door, entered the 14-year-old girl's bedroom and shot her in the head. Every time someone hears this story for the first time they are stunned.
Ariday's mother's name is Ibeth Zamora and she is a middle-aged woman who also has another 9-month-old son. On Friday, October 4, she mobilized to the city of Tecate to demonstrate in front of the Municipal Palace. There she asked the new mayor for attention and help in the search for justice.
The images are of an inconsolable mother. Ibeth, in the interview said that her little daughter went to high school and practiced boxing and was known as "La Cobrita". No one imagined that today we would be talking about a femicide of a 14 year old girl.
Ibeth keeps repeating "My child, my daughter was innocent, my daughter was asleep, I saw how they killed my daughter, I saw how the bullet entered her head, I saw how that coward fled, I myself have seen how the government does nothing".
So far the Baja California Attorney General's Office has not sent any further information to the mother and she needs to know where her daughter's killer is. Who was he? Why did he enter Ariday's bedroom to shoot her while she slept?
Ibeth says that she has two suspects and that she talked to her daughter about various topics, including relationships, and gave her advice. "She told me that she was afraid of two people, that she was insecure about that and they are people that I took to the prosecutor's office," says Ibeth.
However, time is running out and Ariday's mother is waiting for the information she needs from the Prosecutor's Office, which must also guarantee the safety and protection that Ibeth and her family are seeking.
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