Two teenagers invented bracelets for the feminicide rape in Mexico

Three students of the fifth semester of the National College of Vocational Technical Education (CONALEP) from Reynosa, Tamaulipas, They created a new anti-kid bracelet.

Isaura López, Andrea Trejo and Michelle Martínez were the creators of this useful artefact.. All three are graduates of Conalep's executive badistant and student career.

The bracelet is named after Pulsitec and they had the idea to create them when one of his friends lived a kidnapping situation, so they wanted to develop a device to help localization via GPSthey were informed and relied on the help of their electromechanical teacher, Roberto Carlos Garibay.

The idea of ​​Michell, Andrea and Isaura arose from insecurity, and tIts purpose is to prevent kidnappings, even of young children, elderly people or those with an illness..

The bracelet is linked to a mobile phoner so that it always allows to know the location of the person wearing it; If the person is at risk, double tap the bracelet and automatically sends the alert to the phone and it will emit a sound.

By pressing the button and activating it, an alert is issued on the registered mobile phone, indicating the location of the victim.. To do this, they developed an Android application that gives you the street and the colony. The bracelet is connected by Bluetooth and you just need to activate your data and your location to use them.

If the bracelet is unplugged or turned off anyway, it continues to send the venue.

This project is very well received by citizens and their young creators are already in discussion with a company to market the bracelet with its own brand: PulsitecWhat? would go to the market with a price of 585 pesos.

The authorities have not given any real figures on the violations

The prosecutor of the country's capital, Ernestina Godoy, said that in 2018, public prosecutors opened 1,349 research files for the crime of rape.

However, almost half (667) was wrongly clbadified as a "denunciation of facts" and not for the alleged crime of rape, which led to underreporting.

Godoy explained that they were taken into account during the consultation of the Open Data portal, where they noticed an increase in 509% of the number of rape complaints in Mexico City, comparing the period from December 5, 2018 to February 25, 2019 with the same period of 2017-2018.