translated from Spanish: Cases of femicide in Argentina down to 139 in the first half of the year

Argentina recorded in the first half of the year 139 cases of femicide, who knew how to ne a slight decrease compared to the 153 recorded during the same period from 2017, according to a report released today by the Observatory of femicides in the defender of the people of the nation.
According to the report, in the first half of this year 18% of the victims were under the age of 18, 30.9% between 19 and 30 years old, 29.5% corresponds to victims aged between 31 and 50 years and 20.9% to women over 50 years old.
“It should be noted that within the 25 victims under the age of 18, 13 are under 11 years”, points out the study.
In seven of every 10 femicides prior for domestic violence complaints, were not recorded but witnesses close friends victims expressed then the existence of earlier episodes of violence.
“The largest number of cases were committed by adult men. On the modality, in a large number of cases, the murders were committed using firearms or by stabbing, while a high percentage of victims were beaten or strangled”, the report said.
These femicides, 55 children were left without a mother and four children born died during the pregnancy of his murdered mother, “subtracting 33% of the total number of cases unconfirmed data” in this sense, says the report.
The province in which more cases occurred was Buenos Aires, with a total of 42 in the first half, followed by Córdoba (14 cases), Santa Fe (13), Tucumán (11) and Mendoza (9).
According to the Observatory of femicides, cases of femicides in Argentina totaled 292 last year.

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