Antonia Ramirez, who lived in Mexico City in Barrio de la
Palma, near Puente del Blanquillo in Callejón del Blanguillo. Antonia heard
about the 1892 case of Guadalupe Martinez de Bejarano, torturer and murder of
children and felt an affinity for the serial killer. It was in 1893 that the
woman decided to imitate the infamous sadist, “The Fearful Bejarano,” in her
own peculiar fashion. Antonia had a goddaughter of six whom she was looking after
while the child’s mother was ill. Every day Antonia punished the child on any
pretext. She pulled the child’s her hair and stood holding her by the hair. She
slapped and beat her with ropes. Finally one day Antonia Ramirez slapped her,
hit her with a wet rope and then said he was going to teach her the fear of
God. She then took a huge wooden cross that hung on the wall preserved and put
the child up and literally crucified her.
A neighbor child, however, came to the house and saw the
incredible scene of the crucified bleeding child from the doorway and ran off
to fine a policeman. The officer arrived and unsure how to treat the injured
child removed her, cross and all, to get medical help. Carrying the cross
through the streets, he attracted a crowd who became incensed when they found
out about the crime. Antonia had to be closely guarded lest the mob kill her on
the spot. Antonio Ramirez, it is said spent the rest of her miserable life in
prison.
[Robert St. Estephe, based on: “Antonia Ramirez: The New
Bejarano,” Escrita con Sangre, Apr. 2010]
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Other sources:
Augustín Sánchez
González, Terribilísima : Historias
de Crímenes y Horrores : en la Ciudad de México en el siglo XIX, Ediciones
B México, 2006
Augustín Sánchez
González, Un Dulce Sabor A Muerte :
De La Bejarano a la Miss México un siglio de mujeres criminales, Editorial:
Planeta, 2009
James Alex Garza,
El Lado Oscuro Del Porfiriato: Sexo,
crímenes y vicios en la Ciudad de México, Aguilar, 2009
El libro rojo,
Continuacion, V. I: 1868-1928, Gerardo
Villadelángel Viñas, 2008
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For more cases, see: Women Who Like to Torture
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