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Reuters
Politics
Laura Gottesdiener

Mexican girl at center of outcry over violence was sexually assaulted, murdered: autopsy

FILE PHOTO: A friend of Debanhi Escobar, an 18-year-old law student who went missing on April 9 and found dead inside a water tank of the Nueva Castilla motel, amid a spate of disappearances of women in Nuevo Leon state, pays homage to her, in San Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico April 25, 2022. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril

Mexico's president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed on Friday to deliver justice for the killing of a Mexican teenage girl after an autopsy was published showing she had been violently sexually assaulted and murdered.

"I promised to help clarify what happened and ensure there's no impunity," Lopez Obrador told a news conference after meeting with the parents of Debanhi Escobar, whose killing last month inflamed anger over violence against women across Mexico.

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