Horrifying footage revealed the moment an angry mob dragged a suspected child kidnapper and murderer from a police car and beat her to death in the Mexican tourist town of Taxco.
The unnamed woman was taken away by police after she was reportedly caught on surveillance footage helping a man dump the body of Camila Gomez Ortega, who disappeared on Wednesday.
The villagers dragged the woman out of the police car and began wailing at her and tearing at her clothes.
“We are fed up,” a woman who identified herself as Andrea told the Associated Press. ‘This time it was an 8-year-old girl.’
“This is the result of the bad government we have. This isn’t the first time this kind of thing has happened, but this is the first time people have done something.”
Horrifying footage revealed the moment an angry mob dragged a suspected child kidnapper and murderer from a police car
The unnamed woman was beaten to death in the Mexican tourist town of Taxco
The villagers dragged the woman out of the police car and began wailing at her and tearing at her clothes
“We are fed up,” one woman told the Associated Press. ‘This time it was an 8-year-old girl’
Frustration had increased since Camila went missing on Wednesday after her family let her walk to a neighbor’s house to play.
Surveillance video later emerged of a woman in the same neighborhood carrying a basket of clothes into a taxi and helping a man carry a bundle, believed to be the young girl, into the trunk of the taxi, Mexican media said. Vanquish.
The girl was found dead on the outskirts of the city that same day.
An autopsy showed that the girl had been raped and suffocated, the newspaper reported.
The victim’s relatives were able to locate the home of the alleged killers.
They begged the authorities to arrest them, but the police did not intervene.
Instead, the crowd swarmed the house, with some men climbing the roof of the house to drive out the suspected child killers.
Camila Gomez Ortega, 8, went missing Wednesday after going to her neighbor’s house to play
Her family immediately reported her missing. Her body was discovered the next day in the suburbs of Taxco, Mexico. According to Mexican media reports, she had been raped and suffocated
Surveillance footage showed a woman carrying a basket of clothes into a taxi, which was later linked to Camila’s disappearance
The same woman was seen helping a man load a bundle, believed to be Camila’s body, into the trunk of the taxi
Eventually, police intervened, as the trio were forced out of the house and agreed to take them into custody.
Despite placing her in a police pickup, people from the town can be seen clawing at the woman until they were finally able to pull her out of the truck.
An officer tried to pull her back inside, but ultimately surrendered her body to the crowd.
Police stood by and watched the beating of her and two other men suspected of Camila’s death until the crowd finished with them.
The woman was taken to hospital, where she died from her injuries.
The woman’s public killing coincided with Holy Week celebrations, which attracted many tourists to the city
A woman chants the Spanish word for “justice” during a demonstration against the kidnapping and murder of an 8-year-old girl, in the main square of Taxco, Mexico, Thursday
A woman carries her daughter during a demonstration against the kidnapping and murder of an 8-year-old girl, in the main square of Taxco, Mexico, Thursday
A woman wipes her tears during a demonstration against the kidnapping and murder of an 8-year-old girl in the main square of Taxco, Mexico
The woman’s public killing coincided with Holy Week celebrations, which attracted many tourists to the city.
“I never thought we would see a lynching in a touristy place like Taxco,” said Felipa Lagunas, a local elementary school teacher.
“I saw it as something far away, in places far from civilization… I never thought my community would experience this on such a special day.”
Guerrero, the state where Taxco is located, is plagued by violence.
Known as Tierra Caliente or the ‘Hot Lands’, the region is controlled by about 40 cartels and drug gangs vying for control of the area’s marijuana and heroin production.
In this part of Mexico, criminal organizations run the show, preying on the locals and killing anyone who doesn’t pay to play by their rules.
‘We know that the city lives from Holy Week (tourism) and that this is going to ruin things. There will be a lot of people who don’t want to come anymore,” Andrea said.
“We live off tourism, but we cannot continue to allow them to do these things to us.”