Mario Escobar said "The prosecutors didn't do their job correctly." Nobody saw her until late Thursday, when investigators managed to pull her body from the 12-foot (4-meter) deep water tank near a pool at the roadside motel. The image seemed to speak of the tremendous vulnerability, and the self-assuredness - or desperation - of the young woman. There she was, a young woman standing alone at night on the side of a highway, wearing a skirt and high-top sneakers. The driver, who worked for a taxi app, took the photo to show Debanhi, 18, got out of his car alive April 8 on the outskirts of the city of Monterrey. Mario Escobar said while the driver may not have killed her, he was responsible for his daughter's death. The driver has been questioned, though his full name has not been released. "I suppose that my daughter did not put up with the harassment," the father said. It was not clear why she got out of the car, but her father, Mario Escobar, said prosecutors told him that surveillance camera footage suggested the driver inappropriately touched his daughter. State prosecutors later said they had confirmed the body was Escobar's.Įscobar's case made headlines because of a haunting photo taken by a driver who was supposed to take her home that night. "The alert was sounded by hotel workers, because of the fetid odors coming from the area," Mejia said. MEXICO CITY - The haunting story of a young woman left on the side of a highway late at night in northern Mexico ended in sorrow, with her decomposing body found in a subterranean water tank at a motel.Īssistant Public Safety Secretary Ricardo Mejia said Friday that the woman's body - apparently unrecognizable after what may have been nearly two weeks in the water - had a crucifix necklace and clothing that Debanhi Escobar was wearing the night she disappeared.ĭespite what authorities in the border state of Nuevo Leon described as a massive search for her, the story ended the way it often does in Mexico: when her body was found by local people. Candles and flowers surround an image of Debanhi Escobar during a protest over her disappearance and other similar cases at the Attorney General's office in Mexico City on Friday.
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