PERPETRATOR DATA: Mexico
VICTIM: 20 year old Rosa Isela Castro Vazquez
METHOD OF LOCATING VICTIM: via social media; offered baby supplies
SURVIVAL OF MOTHER: no
SURVIVAL OF FETUS: yes
DID PERPETRATOR HAVE CHILDREN: no
FAKED PREGNANCY: not noted in media reports
MOTIVE: motive not noted in media reports
EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE SOUGHT: yes
OUTCOME: sentenced to 85 years incarceration
Veronica N. and her accomplice Gonzalo “N” used social media to locate a pregnant woman in her 3rd trimester. They offered Castro Vazquez baby supplies and offered to meet her in a public place. Witnesses, however, say that, once she met the pair, she was forced at gunpoint into a car. She was driven to an isolated place and killed for her fetus.