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Nine Peruvian Women Are Killed Each Month by
Their Partners
LIMA – Over the past year, an average of
nine woman were murdered by their spouses,
boyfriends or ex-partners each month in Peru
and many of these crimes were motivated by
jealousy, according to government data cited
Sunday by the daily Peru.21.
The head of the Criminality Observatory
within the Peruvian Attorney General’s
Office, Rocio Villanueva, said that since
September 2008, 109 murders of women – a
crime often referred to as a “femicide” –
have been committed in this South American
country.
Of that figure, 97 women were killed by
their spouses, ex-boyfriends or in incidents
of domestic violence, Peru.21 reported.
The newspaper added that 41 percent of those
cases were motivated by impulsive jealousy
on the part of the men and that 10 percent
of the murdered women were pregnant.
According to the AG Office, the majority of
women murdered by their husbands were
between 18 and 24 years old, the paper said.
“The figures show that Peruvian women are
dying in disproportionate circumstances to
the men,” said Villanueva, noting that 1.5
percent of the males who died were murdered
by their female partners.
Meanwhile, Freddy Vasquez, a psychiatrist
with the Honorio Delgado Hideyo Noguchi
Mental Health Institute, said that the most
common profile of the Peruvian men involved
in these incidents “is the typical jealous
macho (male) who only wants the woman to
fulfill the role of mother.”
The majority of the women who suffer from
ongoing physical abuse from their partners
and wind up being murdered are strangled,
stabbed to death or asphyxiated in their own
homes.
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