The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation sat a precedent in establishing that the relatives of a victim of femicide are “indirect victims” of the crime and as such, they have the right to repair the damage.
When reviewing the case of Fatima Quintana Gutiérrez, a girl victim of femicide in 2015 in the State of Mexico, the ministers of the First Chamber of the Court determined that a collegiate court must recognize as “indirect victims” to her mother, Lorena Gutiérrez Rangel, and her father, Jesús Quintana Vega.
In addition, they ordered the court to re -issue a “without strict normative bumpers” for the integral reparation of the damage.
The proposal of Minister Margarita Ríos Farjat was approved unanimously of four votes.
The opinion reports that the case of “a 12 -year -old girl who was violated and deprived of life by two men and a teenager, being her body abandoned in a channel.”
He details that, initially, only one of the perpetrators was convicted of aggravated feminicide, but after the disagreement of the parents, the procedure was replaced and both were sentenced to a life penalty and repair of the damage.
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Although the parents promoted a new direct protection trial, arguing that they were not recognized as indirect victims in repairing the damage, this resource was denied, as detailed in the file of the background of the case before reaching the Court.
Finally, the resolution establishes that “the recognition of parents as indirect victims should not depend on formalisms, but on the bond with the victim.”
In addition, it determines that “the State must be sentenced solidarity for breach of its obligation to prevent the crime of femicide.”
“Therefore, the repair of the damage must be integral, including satisfaction measures to redignify the victim and establish guarantees of non -repetition,” says the direct protection under review 5363/2023.
Likewise, it indicates that said Collegiate Court will identify and notify the authorities of the State of Mexico responsible for the integral reparation, who are obliged to fulfill the ordered without excuses that “they lack faculties.”
This ruling establishes a precedent in justice for the families of the victims of femicide in Mexico, where from 2015 to date, more than 8,000 femicides have been recorded, that is, murders of women because of the genre, according to the official figures.
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Data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System indicate that in 2024 797 femicides in the country were reported, where the State of Mexico leads the records with 73 cases, and from January to March 2025, 162 femicides at the national level have been recorded, of which 18 occurred in the State of Mexico.
Fatima Varinia Quintana Gutiérrez was killed at age 12 in 2015 in Lerma, State of Mexico, at the hands of three men, who have protected themselves and one of them was free for being a minor.
With EFE information
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