Abuse in child shelters continues

News of the abuses has drawn protesters on to the streets

 
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Two social workers, Chanita Chamarra and María Victoria Pomar, were dismissed from the National Secretariat for Children, Adolescents and the Family ad Las Garzas.The firings occurred because the document made the bureaucracy uncomfortable. Now, a report by the National Assembly, prepared after six months of investigations, confirms the infamies committed against dozens of children including those with disabilities  

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The Public Ministry (MP) reported on Sunday, February 14, that it opened an ex officio investigation after an incident that occurred with a minor who was in a shelter located in the township of Tocumen.

According to the MP, the Family Section of the Metropolitan Area began the investigation for the alleged commission of the crime of child abuse to the detriment of a 10-year-old girl due to an incident that occurred on Friday, February 12 at night in a children's shelter.

Senniaf has a budget of only $6,155. for r the current year (an amount that has remained constant for several years). All those familiar with the subject have reiterated that this money is not enough, that the staff is scarce, and that a good part of the shelters deserves another name: that of hell for their victims. Who are those forgotten ones? They are boys, girls and adolescents who lived on the street; others who were "rescued" from their families for violence or sexual abuse,

The minors do not appear on the priority list of the politicians who have governed the country. they are not influencers with many followers. There are also no deputies in the Budget Committee to ask for more funds to serve these minors with dignity. In addition, surely the little money allocated to the shelters arrives late, falls between the endorsement cracks of the Comptroller's Office or is misplaced between the folders of the Ministry of Economy and Finance .

“Does anyone know if these 900+ boys and girls had breakfast today? Where and how did they slept Who will take care of them tonight so that they do not rape them, torture them, tie them to the bed or tell them to pray? asks La Prensa. and lost their jobs because of it. What have the attorney general Eduardo Ulloa done; the Ombudsman, Eduardo Leblanc, or the Minister of Mides, María Inés Castillo? It seems that pro-family groups have fallen silent. Where is the reaction of the anti-abortion fundamentalists, for the denunciation of an abortion caused to a minor