TDoR 2017 / 2016 / December / 26 / Sofía Mailén Santillán


Sofía Mailén Santillán

Age 22

26 Dec 2016
Mercedes, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Beaten

TDoR list ref: tgeu/Dec-2016/Sofía Mailén Santillán

Sofía Mailén Santillán
Sofía Mailén Santillán [photo: www.diarioeltiempo.com.ar]

Sofia's body was found after she had been missing for 5 days. She had been beaten to death.

In November 2020 a reward was offered for information on the murder.

The Ministry of Security of the Province of Buenos Aires offers a public reward, between the sums of 750,000 and 1,000,000 pesos, to anyone who provides information aimed at clarifying the murder of Sofía Maiten Santillán, a trans woman killed on December 23, 2016 in Mercedes .

The provincial authorities recalled that “at approximately 10:10 p.m., the victim was practicing prostitution at the corner of streets 21 and 6, she was hired by a man who traveled by bicycle to maintain relations in a vacant lot of the railway, place in which after three days his body is found lifeless ”.

https://noticiasmercedinas.com/site/2020/11/26/millonaria-recompensa-para-esclarecer-asesinato-de-sofia-santillan/

https://www.diarioeltiempo.com.ar/una-persona-detenida-en-mercedes-podria-estar-vinculada-al-crimen-de-sofia-santillan.html [BROKEN LINK]

https://www.laizquierdadiario.com/Travesticidio-en-Mercedes-justicia-por-Sofia-Mailen-Santillan

Report added: 1 Sep 2018. Last updated: 13 Jan 2021

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