Panama’ burgeoning domestic violence, femicides

The numbers of women victims of domestic violence  and femicides continue to grow in Panama and have the Public Ministry and law enforcement officials worried

While commemorating the day of the elimination of violence against women, a young woman, who was about to start a new job was found dead in La Locería after relatives reported she had not shown up for work.

According to the United Nations, more than a third of women around the world have experienced physical or sexual violence at some time in their lives.

In Panama, the Public Ministry rates the figures as alarming, given the increase in cases of domestic violence this year, with 12,996 reported until October this year

Just this Saturday, a day before commemorating the “International Day of the elimination of violence against

women”, in a residence in La Loceria in the city of Panama, 29-year-old Leticia Layre was found dead, with blows all over her his whole body.

The latest statistics from the Office of the Superior Discharge of Homicide and Femicide, show that from 2014 to 2018 there have been 46 deaths of women in the province of Panama, including 10 in Panama West and another 12 in Colón.

In 2017 there were 10 convictions and 14 in 2018