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Social media users are outraged that the disappearance of Maylin Reynoso—and of other women of color—has not made the news as much as the name of two other women, both white, whose bodies were found at around the same time.
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Reynoso, a 20-year-old woman of Dominican descent, went missing in New York City on July 27 and was found three days later, making her the ninth young woman from the Bronx to be found out of 14 who have gone missing in two years.
The city opened an investigation into the alarming rate of missing Black and Latina women in the Bronx and ruled out the possibility of a prostitution ring, labeling the girls “runaways.”
Reynoso’s death is still being investigated. She was bipolar and suffered from depression and had previously refused her medication, her mother told Ensegundos.
The family, which had put missing posters around the city, identified her body days after she was found in the Harlem River. They raised more than enough funds for a funeral service in a Go Fund Me campaign in 12 days.
Katrina Vetroso was killed on August 2 while jogging in Queens, and New Yorker Vanessa Marcotte was found on August 7, also after a jog. Both deaths, ruled homicides, received widespread media coverage.
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