A 29 -year -old American woman and her six childrenof between one and seven years of agethey disappeared in the central state of Guanajuato, so local authorities ordered a police mobilization to find their whereabouts, the Prosecutor’s Office reported.
Ashley Rose Torres, the mother of the children, surnames Torres Carman, were last seen last Friday in the town of Pénjamo, sources from the local press said, but they are afraid they have been “victims of a crime”, according to They indicated messages disseminated by social networks.
Guanajuato is the state with the highest number of murders throughout the country, and one of the epicenters of the wave of violence that shakes the country since the end of 2006, which throws so far about 500,000 dead and more than 110,000 missing.
Pénjamo in particular is an industrial zone and some of its typical colonial neighborhoods have been the target of strong violence because of the Fuel trafficking.
Two of the missing children are of American nationality and the other four Mexicans, but it is unknown if they were visiting the country or were permanent residents.
Given the concern for the whereabouts of women and minors, the authorities said they activated the search protocols, such as the Alba Guanajuato protocol and the Amber alert for their prompt location, but so far there is no clue about its location.
