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The last thing Meg Minkley remembers is taking a bite of a quesadilla. She knows it was still daylight outside.
Meg had spent the day watching waterfalls in the “amazing jungle” of southern Mexico. She has blocked much of it out but she remembers following a group of backpackers through the greenery into a village to stay the night. She was looking forward to waking up in the jungle.
This was not Meg’s first time travelling alone. She grew up in Australia but had been living in Mexico, teaching at a university. She had travelled alone through Europe and India. She was a smart, seasoned traveller, a safe one.
When she saw the room where she was to spend the night in that remote jungle village, she had a strange feeling. The room “felt weird”. But she was also “so excited by the thought of being in bed by 7pm and not sharing a room with other people”. She took it.
“I walked away to try and find something else, but I couldn’t understand the logistics of this place. I couldn’t find food, either. I can’t describe it,” Meg told Mamamia. “I went back to the hostel. The guy who ran it was a man in his mid 40s. He spoke Spanish and I trusted him actually. I couldn’t see he was dangerous. But I did think it was rare that he had handed out the keys, served drinks and now was offering me food.”
Meg was speaking to him in Spanish. “It was one of those conversations you have when you’re new to a language. He told me he wasn’t married and he had no children. He had been working there for 20 years.”
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just yesterday aomething happened to me and i have no recollectio of it going on, it is scary when you dont remeber what happened, it really does leave so much to the imaginaton. and this is where you to start to question yourself and what you did, did i say yess, did i do somethign to lead them on, itws an ongoing battle.
Speak up speak out this crime still shouldn't be happening in 2017!