Mexican man Cleared of raping a 17-year-old girl because he didn’t enjoy it

For months after he learned in 2015 that his 17-year-old daughter was kidnapped outside a club and raped by some of her former classmates, Javier Fernández said, he refused to go to the police. That's not to say he didn't want justice. It's all the single father wanted for Daphne, his youngest child.

“I wanted to kill them all,” he told a New Yorker writer last year. But in Veracruz, Mexico, you don't rely on the police to punish the guilty and protect the innocent. “The last thing the system of justice provides is justice. I just didn’t trust the authorities,” Fernández said. 

He worried that the police would humiliate his daughter and then delay her case endlessly. “I knew they would fail us,” ... he said in an interview.

It seemed as if Daphne might finally get something like justice. Instead, her father's prediction came true. A judge found that Cruz had touched the victim’s breasts and penetrated her with his fingers. But, the judge said, that didn't make Cruz guilty of assault, because he'd acted without “carnal intent.” The judge also found that while Daphne was forced into the car, she was never “helpless.” Cruz was deemed innocent.

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