translated from Spanish: #JusticiaParaSusy, the young woman who always smiled and invited to enjoy life

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Susy locked he himself completely at home to protect his son. He warned that he would leave his sales job to take care of the child until he started going to school, and with the charisma he had, he was told he could come back whenever he wanted. Even their parents told them he wouldn’t come to visit them, that if they wanted to go to their house. Last Saturday, June 6, she was found dead.
His case has unleashed outrage in Chihuahua because reports from the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) differ completely from what her family says: while the official version is that Susana Margarita Salais Morales died of asphyxiation but her body had no signs of violence, her relatives claim that she was beaten, raped and murdered in front of her 5-year-old son.
Find out: Women and their stories: beyond their femicide
In a first bulletin on the case, the Prosecutor’s Office reported that the number of emergencies received a report of a possible suicide.
Social media spawned the label #JusticiaParaSusy claiming it was not suicide, but femicide.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office then deleted that first statement and published another, from the Specialized Women’s Prosecutor’s Office (FEM), which says that no line of inquiry is ruled out and that the case is in the hands of the Femicide Investigation Unit. But he reiterates that the legionist doctor found no signs of physical or sexual violence, nor were there any traces of anyone entering the house, and that the cause of death was “mechanical asphyxiation.”
Susana Morales, Susy’s mother, says in an interview with Animal Politics that it was her grandson who told what had really happened.
“The boy saw everything… ‘One, two, three. Three beat my mom. Mom, Mom, healthy healthy frog ponytail, get up, now my dad’s coming’… That’s what he said,” Susan recalls.
She says the little boy made a video call with a friend of hers who lives in another city and taught her how she was, with hands and feet tied up, without moving.
Susy’s husband and dad of the boy did not answer the phone because he works as An Uber and until he finished a trip he answered the phone and went straight to his house accompanied by his father, where he found his wife dead.
A source of the prosecutor’s office assured that when the authorities arrived, Susy’s body was not tied up, but dressed and on his bed, with a kind of scarf around his neck, and it did not appear that anyone had forcibly entered the house.
But according to Susy’s mom, even the neighbors called the police because they heard screaming, but no one came.
The Newspaper de Chihuahua published that there was a party on the street that day, because every weekend there are arrancones. Susana believes that whoever attacked her daughter had already seen that she was always at home with her son and that her husband went out for hours to work. And he insists that when they received her body, they had to make up a lot of it because she had a blow to the head and hair ripped off the edges of her face.
Read: What about the relatives of a woman who is a victim of femicide?
Photographer, friend and proud of her smile
Susy was only 25, just turning 30 March. His son turned 5 just a few weeks before and just before he began confinement for the COVID-19 pandemic: he still made it up to him to organize his superhero-themed party. Mother and son were in uniform with an Ironman T-shirt for that day.
She was the greatest of two other sisters, who are now 18 and 16 years old. She married very young, at 19, and when she announced that she would do it with someone who had been carrying 10 years, her mother almost gave her “the patatus,” she says, but he assured her that she was going to show her that she was a good man to her daughter, and she did. Susana fears they want to implicate him in Susy’s murder, but she’s convinced she’s been a good husband and a good, hard-working, non-vicious dad.
The young woman continued to study already married, finished her career in Graphic Design and became fond of photography. She had a professional camera and spent her time portraying her son, her husband and all her friends. Her mom says she wanted to study some journalism major and regrets that her dreams and goals were suddenly over.
Susana keeps repeating that her daughter was the most laughing and amiguera, and very homemade. She remembers asking her so many times to party with her friends, and even if they were pure young men, he asked her out and lived together for a while as well.
“He was a person who was never angry, ever. Always with his laughter. Her little pimps, because she was telling me that right now she didn’t want any brakes, that she saw her friends but she didn’t want to. And I was like, those teeth, it’s the presentation. No, no, no, later, so let me, Mom,” she recalls.
In the photos that flooded the networkss his death and that remain as a tribute to his life in which he was told of Facebook, he is always seen with a broad smile, with no attempt to hide the imperfections of his dentures, and with optimistic and loving messages to his loved ones. Until his last publication, a day before his death, was an invitation to enjoy life to the fullest.
“After that? There’s no ‘after’. Because after the flower withers, interest is lost, the day becomes night, people age, life ends; and one then repents for not doing it sooner when he had the chance.”
Demand justice in front of the Public Prosecutor’s Office
The still red traffic light for the health emergency has not stopped the signs of outrage against justice. On Wednesday, a demonstration was held in front of the Chihuahua Women’s Specialized Prosecutor’s Office to reiterate the need to clarify the case of Susy and all the femicides that are unresolved in Chihuahua.
“I’m flogged with how I’ve been supported,” Susana says of the social response to Susy’s case. “What’s going on, what’s going on. And in everything, they’ve given it a very high reach, even in the United States, in Canada. They tell me not to bend you, fight, and go, until they take it all out.”
Dozens of people, mostly women, marched through streets in the city of Chihuahua shouting “it wasn’t suicide, it was femicide” and “Susy was killed.” “Now inside the house you’re murdered, ” was another of the slogans repeated by the protesters.
In early April, another case that sparked outrage and a social media label was #JusticiaParaPaola, a 13-year-old girl who at one point was left alone in her home in Nogales, Sonora, was the victim of a 32-year-old man who came in, raped her and killed her. Although in that case, he was quickly arrested and convicted of the culprit.
Confinement in households has not reduced violence against women in the country, but quite the opposite. March was the month with the most complaints and emergency calls for gender-based violence, and it had the highest numbers in sexual offences, and in April they remained above average for other years.
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Original source in Spanish

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