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Attacks with acid, corrosive, chemical or flammable substances against women they should be punished with six and up to 15 years in prison, proposes the Labor Party deputy (PT) Ana Laura Bernal Camarena.
With this proposal, the legislator wants the political forces in San Lázaro to approve modifying the Federal penal code to also impose a fine of 500 to a thousand times the daily value of the Unit of Measurement and Update (UMA), in addition to increasing the penalty up to two thirds when it is carried out on a woman for reasons of gender and/or there has been a relationship of kinship or by consanguinity, affinity, civil, marriage, concubinage or a sentimental, affective or trust relationship .
In Mexico there are no official figures, but the Carmen Sanchez Foundation has recorded 28 victims of acid attacks in the past two decades.
Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI), a specialized organization that works with the United Nations, estimates that at least 1,500 attacks of this type occur in the world each year, more than 80 percent of them against women and there are more and more cases in Latin America.
The initiative of the deputy Bernal Camarena was sent to the Justice Commissionand maintains that acid attacks are an “extremely disgusting” act that emphasizes the hatred that exists towards them and is considered “one of the most misogynistic and horrifying acts against a woman, after femicide.”
A case that generated indignation and social rejection was that of Raquel Padilla who died after her neighbor burned her alive in a park in the municipality of Zapopan, in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara; another is that of the saxophonist Maria Elena Rios26 years old, who accused his ex-partner, a businessman and former local deputy from the State of southern Mexico of having ordered the attack in which so far there have been detainees.
