Mutilates ex-candidate a woman’s nose

Veracruz.- Jazmín was sexually abused by Roberto de Anda Ferrandón, a former independent candidate for Mayor of Tlalixcoyan, who attacked her and tore off a piece of her nose, for which she had to undergo surgery in a Veracruz hospital.

The victim reported that the attack occurred on the night of August 17, when the young woman, in the company of another woman, took De Anda to her house because he was drunk and had caused damage in the town of Piedras Negras.

The attacker was drinking with the victim’s partner, with whom he had an argument, after which he broke the windshield of his car.

“While we were on the way (to De Anda’s house) he starts to grab my legs, my breasts and tries to kiss me; he realizes that we are taking him to his house and he gets heavy, tries to hit my aunt boyfriend,” the 28-year-old told Grupo REFORMA.

“When I try to get out of the truck he starts to choke me, when I try to half free myself he pounces on my nose, I fall from pain and he falls on me, the moment he gets up he spits out his nose.”

The young woman described that she felt intense pain and that she began to bleed, and that when she touched her face she realized the hole that the bite caused.

De Anda’s mother rushed to admit him to the home, leaving the injured young woman on the street, without providing her with care.

“I saw my nose while he spit it out and then, when I saw it lying down, I knew that the blood was not from a blow. I was in unbearable pain, I screamed desperately and on the way to the hospital I fainted like six times, I don’t remember anything about it “He explained by telephone from the medical center where he is convalescing.

“(I was afraid) that he was going to get out of control and kill me, that his mom couldn’t hold him, that things would get worse.”

Jazmín was informed by the doctors treating her that, to reconstruct her nose, at least three surgeries would be necessary, which were urgent to prevent any bacteria from entering her body.

The young woman underwent surgery last Monday to graft skin from her cheek and the inside of her lip, as well as cartilage that was removed from her ear.

The cost of her admission and the first care was 25,000 pesos, in a private hospital in Córdoba, but the young woman received an estimated 500,000 pesos for medical treatment as the final amount.

“In the beginning I did not think about justice, I wanted (the aggressor) to only cover my expenses to recover quickly; I thought about my son, that he would go to school, how he was going to pay for everything,” he said.

The woman confessed that now she fears for her life, so she reported the attack to the Veracruz Prosecutor’s Office, and until yesterday the attacker had not been located.

“The aesthetic is not so important, I want to return to my normal life, but I feel that it will be impossible; if he is still free, and he has already seen everything that has been said about the subject, he could get angrier, take revenge,” said Jasmine. With information from Nayra Rivera)