In February 2017, almost eleven years after their arrest, the Attorney General’s Office recognized that Jacinta Francisco Marcial and two other Indigenous women, Alberta Alcántara and Teresa González, were innocent. Jacinta had been freed in 2009. The office offered them a public apology on February 21, 2017, at the National Museum of Anthropology.
Jacinta’s daughter, Estela, ended her speech with the words “hasta que la dignidad se haga costumbre” (until dignity becomes a habit).