Juarez serial rape suspect nabbed

Mexican police arrested a suspect accused of raping nearly twenty women in Ciudad Juarez.

43-year-old Texas native Jorge Alberto Mendez Navarro was nabbed after being accused of violating nineteen women ranging in age from 13 to 32. The arrest was part of a year-long investigation by Mexican police after a fifteen-year-old girl reported being raped in the crime-ridden border city.

Local prosecutors strongly believe that Mendez Navarro often crossed the border into Mexico just to commit his crimes:

The suspect, a 42-year-old chemical engineer who lived in El Paso, was a "probable serial rapist," said Alejandro Pariente, deputy prosecutor of Chihuahua state.

The suspect had committed sexual attacks on young women for at least two years in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, staking out victims by day and entering their bedroom windows at night, Pariente added.

The prosecutor said that the suspect was also on a register of sex attackers in Texas.

Ciudad Juarez has become infamous for the unsolved deaths of nearly 400 women. The murders of so many ladies have garnered the attention of celebs like Peter Gabriel and the tireless work of women’s rights activists like Esther Chavez. According to Chavez, widespread police corruption and a climate of impunity have served as two huge obstacles against properly investigating the femicides of Ciudad Juarez.

Image- daylife.com (“Women walk past a cross in Ciudad Juarez April 10, 2008, put up in memory of women murdered in the city since 1993. Activists and relatives of disappeared and murdered women in a string of murders in Ciudad Juarez are demanding justice for the crimes.”)
Online Sources- Newspaper Tree El Paso, Times of India, LAHT, The Latin Americanist, AP