Yakiri Rubio Fought Off Rapist, Could Get 10 Years In Mexican Prison For ‘Excessive Violence’

Yakiri Rubí Rubio is a 21-year-old woman who lives in Mexico City, Mexico, who on December 9 of last year became what, sadly, thousands of women of all ages also become — a victim of rape. But Rubio was both tough and lucky. She fought back, and won.

As her rapist menaced her with a knife, Yakiri struggled and bravely wrenched the knife from his hands. Then she stabbed the man — 37-year-old, 200-pound Miguel Anaya — with his own weapon. The rapist later died from the stab wound.

Now, Mexican authorities want her to pay almost $30,000 in “damages” to Anaya’s family and possibly even throw Yakiri into a Mexican prison for up to 10 years, because they say she was too rough with rapist who beat her and slashed her before sexually assaulting her.

The incident began earlier that evening when Yakiri left her home in Tepito, one of Mexico City’s toughest neighborhoods to meet her girlfriend. As she walked, she was approached by two men on a motorcycle, Miguel Anaya and his brother Luis. They told her to get on the bike.

When she refused, they grabbed her. The two brothers, according to Yakiri’s testimony, took her to a nearby hotel where Miguel Anaya attacked her slashed her with a knife across her arm leaving a six-inch gash and raped her. During the rape, Luis was outside smoking a cigarette.

But she managed to defend herself and escape to a nearby public prosecutor’s office. While she was giving her report and having her wounds treated, Luis Anaya appeared at the same office and accused Yakiri of murdering his brother.

Luis said that Yakiri and Miguel were lovers and Yakiri Rubio killed him during an argument. Yakiri said that accusation made no sense for many reasons, not least of which is that she is a lesbian. When she was kidnapped, she was on her way to meet the girlfriend she’d been dating for months.

But Yaikiri was arrested and sent straight to prison for murder. She spent three months in prison before a judge reduced her charge to self defense with “excessive violence.”

“Excess violence in legitimate self-defense is absurd!” Yakiri’s mother says. “How can you defend yourself a little bit?”

As Yakiri now awaits trial on the charge that could send her back into the brutal Mexican prison system for the next decade of her life, Luis Anaya remains free, facing no charges.

Yakiri Rubio remains at present effectively a prisoner in her own home. The publicity around her case in Mexico has brought her a barrage of threats.

“At first it was dreadful, I would start crying because every time I had to talk about what happened I would relive it over again,” says Yakiri Rubio. “Now I don’t cry any more. I just want it all to be over.”