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Mexican beating accused forced into confession?

After his arrest, officers last Friday forced him to sign a confession which he did not write and which he was not allowed to read, Acosta Quintero said in a jailhouse interview with a Mexican journalist.

"I don't know what my declaration says," he said.

"They didn't tell me anything else just, 'Sign it,' and I said, 'Can I read it?'"

He told Noroeste that he was then sworn at and told to, "Just sign it ... it's getting late and we want to go."

Another document Acosta Quintero said he was forced to sign on Sunday stated he had "meant to kill the woman." He says when he told officials he had never said that, he was told he didn't have to agree with the document but that by signing he was simply acknowledging he had read it.

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