Guayaquil Ecuador, increase in number of crimes committed in yellow taxis

Eluniverso.com reported that although not all cases end in rape, the prosecutor Marco Ordeñana, coordinator of the Heritage City, acknowledges that in recent times has shown an increase of crimes committed in yellow cabs, as robberies, kidnappings and express outrage.

Añade que de estos delitos se desprenden otros como abusos sexuales, agresiones, lesiones u homicidios. He adds that these other offenses arising as sexual abuse, assault, injury or homicide. “En cuyos casos, la ley siempre castiga el delito más grave”, manifiesta. “In which case, the law always punishes the more serious offense,” he says.

Adela, una colombiana que el 16 de septiembre pasado abordó con una amiga un taxi afuera del Malecón Simón Bolívar, en el centro, relata en su denuncia que ambas fueron golpeadas brutalmente por dos sujetos que se subieron a la unidad con la complicidad del chofer. Adela, a Colombian who last September 16 with a friend boarded a taxi outside the Malecon Simon Bolivar in the center, told in his complaint that both were severely beaten by two men who got into the unit with the complicity of the driver. Read Article