‘Murdered’ Ingrid Escamilla, 25, complained to Mexico cops about violent husband months before she was ‘skinned’
THE victim of a horrific murder in which she was skinned and eviscerated by her crazed husband had told cops that he was domestically violent several months ago. The newspaper Milenio reported that the ex-wife of Robledo had also filed two complaints against him over the past eight years, including one for domestic violence. Milenio […]
THE victim of a horrific murder in which she was skinned and eviscerated by her crazed husband had told cops that he was domestically violent several months ago.
The newspaper Milenio reported that the ex-wife of Robledo had also filed two complaints against him over the past eight years, including one for domestic violence.
Milenio Television reported that Escamilla Vargas had filed her complaint against Robledo but later withdrew it.
Ingrid, 25, was skinned, stabbed to death and eviscerated by her husband Erik Francesco Robledo, 46, on February 9 in their Mexico City apartment.
Footage shows Robledo in a car with his head bandaged and blood on his chest while he reportedly talks to a policeman after his arrest on Sunday morning.
They found him next to Escamilla’s mutilated body with a knife in his hand and his own body splattered with blood.
In the video, Robledo confesses to stabbing his partner in the throat after a heated argument in which he said that she threatened to kill him.
He allegedly told her to stab him three times during an argument over his drinking before disarming her and stabbing her in the throat.
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During his confession, Robledo admitted to peeling her skin off and removing many of her organs, flushing them into the sewer.
In the clip he said: “We started to argue and we fought. She said she wanted to kill me and I said do it.”
Greusome images of her skinned body were printed on the front pages of papers across Mexico on Valentines day, causing a massive movement to do more against the worrying rise in femicide as well as a backlash against the media.
One particularly insensitive headline accompanying the image read “It was cupid’s fault”.
Ingrid was buried on Tuesday in her hometown of Nuevo Necaxa.
Mexico City prosecutors have called for Robledo to face the strongest possible punishment.
Protesters sprayed “blood” on the door of the Mexican presidential palace and coated it in grafitti.
An average of 10 women a day are killed in Mexico and 2019. Instances of femicide have increased by 10% in 2019 to over 1,000.
Figures show that 3,142 women were killed in Mexico from January to November 2019, but activists in Mexico say that too few murders are classified as femicide.
The first year of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s government marked a new overall homicide record, official data shows.
This is the second high profile case in a week after a seven-year-old girl, called Fatima, was found wrapped in a bag on the outskirts of Mexico City on Saturday.
Obrador has publically blamed the media and said that the wide spread protests against femicide and government inaction over the weekend had tried to pull focus from his social programmes when asked about it on Monday.
He then went on to defend his record, saying the government are working so that there won’t be any more femicide killings.
Banging an old drum he also blamed “social decomposition” on his predecessors’ “neoliberal policies”.
The World Health Organization says femicide is generally understood to involve the intentional murder of women because they are women, but broader definitions include any killings of women or girls.
