Graphical Content: Inside the Mexican state where 900 women have either vanished or been murdered and 1,200 raped in a single year

Thrown from bridges, horrifically mutilated, raped or simply 'disappeared'....Guerrero state - in which the resort of Acapulco sits - is the most dangerous place for women in North America with more than 600 went missing in southern state this year, 1,249 rapes reported last year...more after the cut...

When her mother's body was found decapitated on her town's main street, Ahilin Quiñones became another one of the countless orphans in Mexico's Guerrero state, whose lives have been destroyed by a surge in female kidnap and murder.

Her mother, Aidé Nava, was a mayoral candidate in their cartel-infested Mexican mountain village of Ahuacuotzingo. 

After vowing to rid the town of its opium-cultivating gangsters, she was kidnapped by the cartel who tortured, raped and decapitated her.

On March 11, the ruthless gangsters left her body out in the open and covered it in a spray-painted sheet which read: 'This will happen to anyone who doesn't get in line.'

'The police told us they couldn't identify the body without the head,' Ahilin told MailOnline, 'I was forced to recognise my mother's corpse by a birthmark she had on her forearm.'

Atrocity: The decapitated body of Ahilin's mother, Aidé Nava, was found underneath a white sheet which read: 'This will happen to anyone who doesn't get in line'

Marked: After her father - the town mayor - mother and brother were murdered by cartel members, locals in Iguala believe Ahilin Quiñones (pictured) and her sister Vanessa are the gangs' next targets

Cut down: Forensic teams in Acapulco, Mexico, cover up the body of a woman who was shot dead while selling coffee on a street corner

Fearless: Former mayor Maria Santos Gorrostieta, who was murdered in 2012, shows the gunshot wound from an assassination attempt

Ahilin, 19, has lost everything to the gangsters who terrorise her home town of Iguala.

Her father, town mayor Fransisco Quiñones, was murdered at gunpoint nine months earlier. Her elder brother was 'disappeared' by the gangsters in 2012. 

Locals say Ahilin and her sister Vanessa could be the cartel's next targets.

'Women go missing every day from this region,' Ahilin said, cradling her six-month-old daughter, whom she hopes to spare from a life of perpetual terror by moving to the United States, 'My mother is just one among thousands.'

Six women are murdered in Mexico every single day, according to the National Citizen Femicide Observatory, which claims only a quarter of the 3,892 murders it reported in 2013 were actually investigated.

 An average of 14 women per 100,000 are murdered annually in Guerrero - four times the national average.

The most recent official statistics saw an astonishing 343 per cent increase in femicide on the previous three years, with more than 500 mothers, sisters and daughters being murdered annually. 

Horrifying: A skull, bones and a girl's dress (pictured in November 2014) were found in a clandestine grave, near the city of Iguala, where 43 students were kidnapped 

The body of Gorrostieta was found stabbed, burned, battered and bound by a roadside in San Juan Tararameo, Cuitzeo Township

Deceased: Vargas (pictured) was found dead around a month after she went missing, even though her family paid her captors' demanded ransom of around £83,000

Horrible discovery: The decaying body of an aspiring actress, Carmen Yarira Noriega Esparza, was found inside a water tank one year after she disappeared

Tormented: Rosa Segura Giral (left) holds up a photo of her daughter, Berenice, who went missing in Iguala and licia Modesta Mendoza Aviles holds up a photo of her missing daughter, Yolanda, who disappeared in the same town

Report by: daily mail