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A former Colombian beauty queen who was reported missing in Mexico almost 10 months ago has been confirmed dead.
Ania Acosta, 43, was laid to rest Wednesday, Colombia's embassy in Mexico revealed in a social media post.
'It is with pain that we inform you that Ania Margoth Acosta was buried today,' the embassy said on X.
'A Colombian victim of trafficking and a femicide, but also of abandonment by the State. Today we failed a family, to whom we apologize, and we ask the judicial authorities for a prompt investigation.'
Former Colombian beauty queen Ania Acosta was buried on Wednesday. The 42-year-old had been missing in Mexico since June 21, 2023 after she was reportedly kidnapped. Her decomposed remains were located on February 20 in the western state of Michoacán
A cemetery worker inscribes the name of former Colombian beauty queen and actress Ania Acosta after she was laid to rest Wednesday, two months and a half after her remains were found in Michoacán, Mexico
The mother-of-one moved to Mexico in 2022 in hopes of jumpstart her career as a singer. It is believed she was kidnapped June 21, 2023, in the western Mexico state of Michoacán.
A family member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity with Colombian news outlet Noticias Caracol, said that authorities shared a video that showed the moment Acosta was forced inside a vehicle.
Acosta's last contact with her family as around 1am moments before she went missing and told her mother that she was in the municipality of Morelia and was going to travel to Guadalajara, the state capital.
'She communicated with the mother as if saying goodbye, that she was leaving, but that she loved us all, as if to let her understand that she was in danger,' the family member said.
'They (embassy) apologize because they did not do enough to rescue her, it is something that cannot be described, losing a loved one.'
Ania Acosta moved appeared in three television series in Colombia and moved to Mexico in 2022 to pursue a career in music
Colombian actress and singer Ania Acosta was laid to rest Wednesday, almost one year after she was reportedly kidnapped in Morelia, a city in the western Mexico state of Michoacán
Mexico-based NGO, Strategic Human Rights Litigation, found that Acosta has been harassed by a man, whom she described to her family as a member of a criminal group.
The man reportedly pressured her to fight other people and forced her into having sex with him.
The Michoacán State Attorney General's Office located her body in a state of decomposition on February 20 and was able to confirm her identity through a Star of David tattoo on her chest.
Acosta won a beauty pageant in the province of Chocó in 2001 before she ventured into acting, appearing in the Colombian network series La Viuda Negra (The Black Widow), Las Detectivas y El Víctor (The Detectives and Víctor) and El Comandante (The Commander).
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