Overview
- Speaking to reporters, María Adela Morales Correa said she was not kidnapped or trafficked and chose to enter a Mexico City psychiatric hospital to address depression and suicidal thoughts.
- Investigators from Mexico City’s search commission and police verified her location at the National Institute of Psychiatry and recorded her statement that she entered on her own and was not a crime victim.
- Doctors said she had full decision-making capacity during treatment, and prosecutors confirmed the active case is for possible family violence rather than disappearance or trafficking.
- She said her mother’s complaint and a court injunction to force contact disrupted care, and she described a coordinated hospital–prosecutor plan for her discharge because she feared a mandated encounter.
- Morales asked people to stop spreading false claims and to stop targeting her friends, saying her support network has faced threats, a plea that highlights patient privacy and autonomy in mental health care.