A Mexican prosecutor called a murdered woman an alcoholic who was living out of wedlock

By Amanda Erickson May 5


On Wednesday night, a 22-year-old woman named Lesby Berlin Osorio was strangled with a telephone cord. Osorio was found on a university campus in Mexico City, hand still wrapped around her dog's leash.

Here's some information relevant to what happened: Osorio was out with friends the night of her death, according to her boyfriend. The pair left together around 4 a.m., got into an argument, then, allegedly, parted ways. The boyfriend was drunk when police found him, unable to give a statement for several hours. Authorities say he is their main suspect, although they can't rule out an attack by someone else, or even suicide.

And here's what the city's public prosecutor — charged with investigating her killing — decided to share about the crime, via the office's official Twitter account: Osorio was “alcoholic and a bad student”; “She had left home and was living out of wedlock with her boyfriend”; “She had been taking drugs with friends.”

That apparent attempt to embarrass a dead woman quickly went viral, provoking a backlash across the country. More than 50,000 people have used the hashtag #SiMeMatan (if they kill me) to speculate on the ways their personal lives would be used against them if they were found slain.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/05/a-mexican-prosecutor-called-a-murdered-woman-an-alcoholic-who-was-living-out-of-wedlock/?utm_term=.90582fea7558