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happened during the journey, she recounted that she was beaten with batons, “they groped [her]
whole body; they touched [her] breasts and buttocks and genitalia on top of [her] clothes,” and
as she tried to defend herself, they lifted her up and hit her buttocks hard. In addition, she
narrated that she could hear the cries and entreaties of women who were being raped, as well as
the sound of pornographic films. She recalled that they were told that “if they had one too many,
they would make [her] disappear so as not to be accountable to anyone,” and that they made
several stops on the way, where she thought that some people disembarked from the bus.
89. María Cristina Sánchez Hernández indicated that the police placed her face down in the back
of a truck and interrogated her while they hit her. She recounted that she was forced to sing and
to tell obscene jokes, and was hit if she refused. She recalled that they “threatened” her with a
pistol, telling her that when they arrived, “a reception committee was waiting.” They also said:
“why weren’t you […] at home, ‘damn bitch,’ and many other obscene things.” She narrated that
the police “began to grope [her], they put their hands on [her] breasts and between [her] legs,”
gripping her. In addition, she recounted that they stole her belongings and she saw how they
forced another woman to perform oral sex.
90. María Patricia Romero Hernández was taken first to the Office of the Texcoco Assistant
Attorney General and, during the journey, the police beat her whole body and, hit her back with a
hand wrapped in a rag. When they arrived, the forensic physician on duty told her to “get
undressed,” which she refused to do, so he told her to put her arms and hands out and close her
eyes; then a female police agent hit her back with a baton. She explained that the female agent
said to her: “this will teach you a lesson, bitch,” and that this was happening to her for being
“aggressive.” She described how, during her time in the Assistant Attorney General’s Office, the
police threatened her, saying “we’re going to fuck you,” “you’re a bitch and don’t deserve to live,”
“we’re going to kill you,” “we’re going to rape you, you fucking bitch,” all of this in the presence
of her father and son. She stated that when she went to give her statement, they indicated that
she had injured two police agents with a machete, and she responded that this was false. She
indicated that, even though they assigned a defense lawyer to her, she had no contact with him,
or information on her rights. She added that, they were taken from the Office of the Texcoco
Assistant Attorney General to the Office of the Toluca Attorney General in a truck with their hands
on their necks and without moving, all the time subjected to threats of being killed or
disappeared. She recounted that on the way:
91. She added that, for a long time, she was unable to speak about what had happened
“because [she] felt so ashamed and because [she] felt sullied.” She recounted that an hour later
they were taken out of the bus and the police continued to hit them until they entered the
CEPRESO.
92. With regard to the transfers to the detention center on May 4, Norma Aidé Jiménez Osorio
recounted that she “was pushed violently to the ground” and she heard the voice of female police
agents saying: “hey, they’re going to rape you soon, your life’s worth nothing,” a threat that was
repeated several times. She stated that, on getting into the bus, she was forced to lie face down
in the central aisle, and the agents kept on walking by and jumping over her back and head,
saying that they “should be at home cooking instead of being out and about; that [they] were not
thinking of [their] families or [their] children.” She recounted that she was afraid that, at any