Argentina: Numbers of men burning women by fire in abuse cases increasing

There was always violence but not to the extent that is now,” he stated to the NATION Ada Beatriz Rico, president of La Casa del Encuentro, after confirming that there was an increase after the death of Taddei. According to statistics cited by the institution in Argentina, more than 200 women are murdered each year. Most are stabbed or shot, although the percentage of burn victims is high. Excluding complaints recorded in 2012, some 43 were burned by their partners or former partners. For some specialists, this rise in the statistics has a close relationship with the media coverage of the issue (which also moves to the inner circle of the affected) and the identification that originates from a segment of people with difficult childhoods and fears remain alone or abandoned.

“There are those who identify with another person that burned. That is somehow repressed memory of the subject to see a situation similar to his that leads him to repeat the behavior. Find in this way a kind of suggested,” La Nacion said Adrian Besuschio, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and forensic. A symbol of belonging…Read Article