Suspected gunmen have attacked and cut open an eight-month-pregnant woman identified as Rosa Isela Castro Vazquez, to steal her fetus in the Mexican state of Veracruz.
According to the authorities, the twenty-year-old woman was attacked by two assailants on Monday, but her unborn baby was retrieved alive.
It was gathered that victim was abducted by two suspects who cut the baby out of her womb and dumped her body in Medellin del Bravo, in the Mexican state of Veracruz.
However, police arrested the suspected criminals – a man and woman — after learning there was a newborn baby in their possession as disclosed by the attorney general’s office in the eastern state of Veracruz.
They allegedly sliced open the victim to remove the fetus because the woman attacker was unable to have children herself.
The victim was lured to her death through social media with a promise of clothes for her baby, relatives told local media, which said that it was the third case of its kind in recent years.
More than 3,700 women were murdered in violence-plagued Mexico in 2021, of which around 1,000 were classified as femicides, according to official figures.
Ministerial Police arrested Gonzalo “N” and Veronica ‘N’ as alleged perpetrators of the crime of disappearance committed by individuals.’
It used ‘N’ as practiced in Mexico to conceal a suspect’s full name due to local privacy laws.
The alleged perpetrators were arrested with a newborn in their possession, the Attorney General’s office in the eastern state of Veracruz said in a statement.
The suspects, a man and a woman, appeared before a judge on Monday accused of kidnapping and femicide.
According to relatives of the victim, Rosa was lured to her death through social media with a promise of clothes for her baby.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) gathered that it was the third case of its kind in recent years.
More than 3,700 women were murdered in violence-plagued Mexico in 2021, of which around 1,000 were classified as femicides, according to official figures.
