Dallas Adult Entertainment: Grief, Rage Fuel Juarez Mothers’ Search For Justice
I first met Olga Esparza Rodriguez last year at a memorial for a university professor in Juarez who had just been gunned down. Esparza was holding a giant banner with a picture of her 18-year-old daughter, Monica, who disappeared on March 26, 2009.
“A day for us is like an eternity,” Esparza says, sitting at her kitchen table with her husband. “It’s the worst in the night because during the day you have to work and go forward. But we miss her, miss her the way you’d miss an arm or a leg or the light.”
Over the past two decades, hundreds of teenage girls and young women have gone missing in Juarez. Some turn up dead or forced into prostitution rings. Prosecutors say some run off with boyfriends and will turn up when they want to be found.
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