“Sport invites us to live a full and peaceful life,” reads an Instagram post by Rubén Rocha Moya made on April 6 – he was still the active governor of Sinaloa at the time. That day he led a boxing class with athletes, including Omar Chávez Carrasco, who had been facing a complaint with the Public Ministry for domestic violence for a month: the man, trained to knock out professional boxers, beat his partner until she was so injured that she had to be treated in a hospital.
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“That was a mockery to me, them posting that they are with the governor, as if saying they have his support, putting that out so I wouldn’t advance with my complaint because they had everyone’s backing,” says Chantal, the woman who survived that domestic violence at the home of the retired boxer Julio César Chávez’s son.
That complaint she filed in early March was the start of a legal process, but also the beginning of more violence.
Chantal says it all began with the boxer’s addiction. Omar Chávez is a user of an anorectic called Itravil. “He had to take two to three pills to lose weight, but sometimes he took the whole box of 30 and that made him gamble.”
It was more and more money and also more medication. She states that Chávez was already a gambler, but also that the money was not enough.
“The first time he assaulted me was when he made me ask my relatives for money, forced me to do it with acquaintances and friends to gamble it and buy more medication,” the young woman denounces, who now lives outside the country trying to protect herself.
That time in March 2025 she ended up severely beaten, with visible wounds, but managed to get treatment and leave the place. She left that house, leaving her clothes and other personal belongings, “I didn’t care about them, what I wanted was to save myself,” she says, while regretting that the complaint did not go beyond the statement taking.
The Attorney General’s Office did not issue any precautionary measures and there was no greater effort to summon the boxer. In May of that same year, Chávez allegedly sent two men after her.
“They wanted me to withdraw the complaint,” she says. She then adds that they held her captive for 13 days, controlling her social media communications, beating her by the boxer, but keeping her alive to subject her to more assaults.
“They even had a plan to bury me in a pit,” Chantal points out.
When Chantal was telling this story, the Sinaloa Attorney General’s Office also acknowledged in an information request that in just the last year and a half, 452 women have disappeared, and of all of them, only 181 had been found, but 11 of those women were found murdered.
Chantal planned her escape over and over. She was determined to survive and she did. She ordered food through an app, taking advantage that there was no food in the house where she was held.
“Omar started telling me no, that I better cancel it because he was sure I was going to ask for help, that I was going to leave. That was my plan. Then the Uber delivery guy arrived and I was telling him ‘hey, don’t leave, wait for us, right now downstairs with the food.’ While Omar and I were arguing. I told him I was hungry, that I had to go down for the food, that we couldn’t lose it because we had no money left,” and then the escape:
“So I told him: ‘well, let’s both go if you don’t want me to go down alone.’ His house is very big and he told me not to open the gate. Omar told me: ‘no, you stay there, don’t leave the house. I’m going out the gate for the food,’ so as Omar approached to pick up the food, I opened the gate and ran out and started screaming.”
The delivery guy was frozen, he didn’t dare to pick up the woman who, besides her screams and desperation, showed visibly severe wounds. She ran and screamed, and behind her was the athlete, “he was barefoot. He didn’t care.”
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A few meters away, a cleaning worker from a neighboring house saw her scream. Chantal asked her for help, showed her wounds on her arms and torso. The woman, frustrated, told her she couldn’t do anything, that she didn’t even have a phone to lend her. She only managed to encourage her to run more, but Omar Chávez caught her.
“He started carrying me by force, taking me to his house. I told him that if he was going to take me, at least take me to the hospital or my house to heal. He didn’t do it, but forcibly took me to his house.”
Until that moment everything seemed lost, but someone was able to change the story.
“When I got back to the gate, a car approached and it was a young woman. She said: no, don’t go in, don’t listen to him, get in.”
Chantal didn’t hesitate and got into the vehicle without knowing who she was.
“I still don’t know who she was, I don’t remember, but I got in the car and she told me she knew the people who lived in that house, that she already knew what they were like,” she recalls.
The woman took Chantal to the General Hospital of Culiacán, where she left her. Mrs. Amalia, Omar’s mother, was already waiting for her. She told her the situation and the lady took her out of the place, “I think they didn’t want me to be treated there so there wouldn’t be a record that I was assaulted.”
Public hospitals have a protocol to notify the Public Ministry when there is an assault against a woman.
The boxer’s mother took her to her house, promising care, but it didn’t happen. However, there she could already use phones. She called a sister and asked her to pick her up. Together they went to report Omar Chávez on May 26, 2025, for domestic violence, illegal deprivation of liberty, and injuries. Then she took refuge outside Culiacán.
The case did not progress for almost a year, until May 20, 2026, when he was arrested by the Sinaloa Attorney General’s Office. The family has publicly said, through retired boxer Julio César Chávez, that it was a dispute and scuffles, but the evidence says otherwise.
The file includes photographs of the young woman with bruised arms, torso, and face. Chantal received beatings from her partner, a professional boxer, very similar to those the man gave his opponents in the ring.
“When he hit me, he then posted photos or videos as if he were training at the gym. You shouldn’t believe everything posted on social media,” says the young survivor.
At the initial hearing for the case, it was decided that the boxer would undergo the process free. Six months of precautionary measures were also given, including a restraining order against Chávez and other involved persons, but she claims they have been violated.
“I even have a message from him on Instagram, when he’s not supposed to do it, but nothing happens,” she says, “That’s why I ask for help publicly, because I no longer know if those at the Attorney General’s Office help him, I no longer know who is corrupt or not, because for me it’s very exhausting to send them another letter and say it’s the second time he keeps bothering me… What are they waiting for? Omar is waiting for the six months to end to come and do something to me, to have the green light to hurt me because he won’t have the Attorney General’s Office on him anymore. He will do it, you’ll see, because he already tried.”