ECATEPEC, Mexico — Itan Flores was a young teenager when her first boyfriend imprisoned her for six weeks in a room furnished with just a mattress and a radio. He returned only to rape her, she said, often withholding food and water. He told her that if she ever reported what happened to the police or to her parents, who thought she had gone voluntarily, he would kill her family. “To this day, my parents do not know I was a prisoner,” Ms. Flores, 24, said, her eyes welling with tears. That attitude is so entrenched in society that it extends to the police and the courts.

Source: International New York Times December 26, 2019 19:41 UTC