A mayor humiliated a girl because of her physique and provoked outrage

April 3, 2019

The mayor was disavowed on social networks and went to apologize.

The Billy Chapman, Mayor of Sinaloa, Mexicovisited a rural elementary school of the municipality of Ahome and aroused controversy when he evoked the physical appearance of a girl. The images were shared on social networks and the president apologized.

The video begins with the politician squatting, talking to a girl with a blue bow. Chapman She asked him what he likes to eat and the girl replied: "Eggs".

Then he goes to one of the professors and says: "What's wrong with this girl? This girl is overweight, she has a horrible and horrible obesity. Because?".

The teacher told him that the mother was very supportive and that she was giving him at all times what the little girl asked him: "He is an only child, overprotected."

The video was published by @LopezBrito_, a Twitter user, who called Chapman's expressions "lamentable".

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In user comments, they agreed that although Obesity is a problem, it was not the right way to tackle it. Minus, in front of the girl.

"The insensitivity of this person is incredible.He does not know that he can do psychological damage and mark them for life.Even if he is right, he can not do it this way." Besides, it is up to the popes and the leaders to implement the public policies, and he does not have the right to judge like that, "writes @ironqueto.

From the town hall, they explained that what Chapman considers that "horrible and scary" is obesity and diabetes in children it exists in rural areas, but it has never been an offensive or humiliating comment for the little child.

In addition, they complain that the video was "distorted" in social networks. However, they offered a respectful apology to Nancy and her family for the misunderstandings generated.