Power and Pedophilia in Oaxaca
May 7th, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Child Rape, Human Rights, Mexico, Networks, Oaxaca, Organized Crime, Pedophilia, Politics, Pornography, Social Privilege
This is truly a disgusting and scary story because of its ramifications, via Le Monde.
LE MONDE | 26.04.08
So what’s the story here? Hugo Constantino et Adan Perez are wanted by the police. They are accused of having repeatedly raped a 4-year old boy, in a wealthy private school and to have filmed their sadistic acts for a network of pornographic and pedophiliac videos. What is making everything worse (can it get worse than the sadistic rape of a 4-year old?) is that the State of Oaxaca is trying to cover it up and to stall the investigation by all means necessary. It has been over a year since the legal proceedings started and the 2 men are still at large.
On April 3rd, federal agents have discovered where Hugo Constantino – the husband of the school owner, the San Felipe Institute – was hiding in Oaxaca. But member of the state police intervened and stalled them for several hours to give him time to disappear again.
The victim’s mother, Leticia Valdes, has stated that the state is trying to hide the existence of a global network. After filing a complaint for the rape, she has received death threats by telephone, unidentified men are constantly watching her house, her car has been vandalized. She has been offered hush money. The little boy is in therapy but is still much traumatized by what he has been through (yeah, no shit). The suspicion of a global network of pedophiliac pornography has emerged because the director of the Institute (the wife of Constantino) has done a lot of unexplained travel to Spain. Mexico is the world’s third producer of pornographic pedophilia.
Ms Valdes also has a hard time finding an attorney to represent her and her son in Oaxaca. She has had four already, and they all resigned under pressure and because of the potential implications of the complaint. The second man on the run, Adan Perez, teaches computer sciences at the Institute, is also the nephew of the director (Constantino’s wife again). This woman is heavily connected to the state branch of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI – Mexico long dominant political party), especially, the governor’s wife.
And while Ms Valdes has problems finding legal representation, the Institute has no such difficulties. All the attorneys representing it are influential members of the state PRI, former senators, former state prosecutor, former state secretary of interior. This legal powerhouse is led by a legal mind who defended the members of the military involved in the “disappearances” during the 1970s “dirty war”.
This is not the first time that the Institute has been accused of something like that. And following the example of Ms Valdes, three other mothers have filed complaints for the same crime against other private institutes (what the hell is going on in these places?). Public opinion in the state is divided over this and only one newspaper has dared reporting on it.
Why is it that power and sexuality are always so intimately intertwined? Well, feminists have answered that one over and over (often to deaf ears). So, just go read Feminism 101.
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