Elderly Couple in Playa del Carmen Accuse Daughter of Fraud and Attempted Seizure of Home

Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo — An elderly couple in Playa del Carmen have filed a criminal complaint against their own daughter, accusing her of fraud, family violence and attempting to take their home from them.

Marina Raquel Enríquez Montero and Francisco de Jesús Parrao Aguilar lodged the complaint against their daughter, identified as Margarita N., with the State Prosecutor’s Office in Quintana Roo. The case is registered under file number FGE/QROO/SOL/09/7572/2026 and concerns the family home in Colonia Luis Donaldo Colosio.

Their lawyer, Paola Altamirano, said the couple are victims of family violence, harassment, fraud, breach of trust, psychological abuse and property damage at the hands of their daughter, and that the dispute has since drawn in other members of the family.

How The Daughter Took Over The Deed

Altamirano said Parrao, a former municipal musician, was granted a plot in the colonia, where he built the family home. Under a property regularization program promoted by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the couple transferred the title to Margarita N.

Clause 8 of the notarized deed states that Marina and Francisco are entitled to live on the property until their deaths, the lawyer said. Instead, she added, the daughter has made their lives intolerable: destroying their belongings, dumping garbage, damaging internet wiring, installing a surveillance camera to monitor who comes and goes, and barring anyone from entering the house to visit her mother.

Altamirano said Margarita N. also removed the advertising her mother had posted at the front door so she could no longer sell weight-loss products, broke locks on the property, and deliberately set loose her mother’s pet birds. On Sept. 15, the lawyer said, the daughter smashed every potted plant on the home’s terrace.

“So far no protection order has been issued for them, one that would prohibit their daughter from approaching them or committing acts of harassment,” Altamirano said. “Obviously we are pressing for one to be granted as quickly as possible.”

Relative Detained While Trying To Help

Jesús Blanco, the partner of Ángel Gabriel, Marina Enríquez’s adopted son, was detained by municipal police when he tried to defend the elderly woman from her daughter, according to the complaint.

Altamirano said that once the plot was regularized in the daughter’s name, she immediately recorded the change with the Public Property Registry, and that the current case focuses on her failure to comply with the notarized deed.

The family submitted a formal request to Mayor Estefanía Mercado, Public Security Secretary Carlos Alberto Montesinos and the municipal DIF family services agency, asking them to support the elderly couple and prevent the aggression from escalating into physical harm.

Twenty-One Years Of Family History

Marina Enríquez said she took her daughter in 21 years ago because she had nowhere to go with her children and her husband. Eight years ago the daughter separated from her husband and married a woman; her son-in-law moved out and the daughter returned to live with Marina and Francisco.

The home was adapted so the upper floor could be rented out as vacation lodging, but the problems with Margarita N. began exactly one year ago, she said.

‘Why Don’t You Die?’

Francisco Parrao, 81, said the Quintana Roo Housing Institute (Inviqroo) provided the land. He worked for years as a professional musician and teacher at the Colegio de Bachilleres, and also worked at Televisa.

He said he spent 11 days in a coma in hospital because of heart problems that led to the replacement of his pacemaker, leaving him in a vulnerable condition.

“One day she shouted at me: ‘Hey, why don’t you die?’ How can she shout that at me?” he said. “I’m asking for protection from these people who have done and undone things in the house. They mock us and they’ve put a little camera on us to see what we do.”

He said Margarita N. will not allow the other siblings into the home — not even within a block of it — and calls the municipal police when they approach.

Son Says Parents Left Unprotected

Leonel Ramírez Enríquez, Marina’s youngest son, said he confronted his sister for removing his parents from the podiatry clinic operating in the family home. He said he brings his parents money from renting out chairs and tables and from selling food supplement products.

Leonel said Francisco is not the biological father of the six siblings but changed their lives by loving them as his own children.

“We never had violence from him, and they spent their time helping my sister, so that in the end they end up on the street,” he said.

He complained that the protective measures requested from the State Prosecutor’s Office have not been issued and that police have not intervened.

Leonel said he has asked the federal health regulator Cofepris to inspect the Happy Feet podiatry clinic at Avenida 35, block 528, lot 3, saying neither his nieces nor his sister hold a certificate to operate it and that the premises have illegal electricity hookups.