I'M A CRIMINAL

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In Mexico, there are around 300,000 girls who are sold into marriage and although this problem has been legislated,

minors are still being sold in rural areas of the country. This has caused many girls to run away from their "husbands and families" and to be searched and imprisoned by the community police in their towns. For this reason Yo Quiero Yo Puedo, an organization that has been working for years to eradicate child marriage, decided to launch a campaign to make visible this situation, that has not been regulated by Mexican authorities.

On April 29th, International Children's Day, we launched "I´m A Criminal" a film based on the facts told by Mexican journalists Raymundo Pérez Arellano and Fernando Guillén, who on October 18 2021, after an arduous investigation, told the world the heartbreaking and absurd story of Angélica, a girl of only 13 years old, who was persecuted and arrested by the community police of Guerrero, Mexico, for having escaped from her "husband" who bought her for marriage. Thanks to Angelica's story we were able to give visibility to this problem and raise thousands of donations to prevent more girls like her from reaching the altar.