Mexico charges six over Michoacan children's home abuse

Mexico charges six over Michoacan children's home abuse.

 

 

A federal judge in Mexico has charged six employees of a children's home raided by police last week.

More than 450 children and teenagers were rescued from the The Big Family Home, where they had been living in appalling conditions.
Prosecutors believe some of the children were subjected to beatings and sexual abuse.
The owner of the home, 79-year-old Rosa Verduzco, has been deemed too old and mentally unfit to stand trial.

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The six employees - five men and a woman - were charged with criminal association, abduction and human trafficking.

Police raided the home in the city of Zamora on 15 July, after protests by parents that their children were being held against their will and abused.
Officers had found around 450 children living in appalling conditions.
Children had slept in crowded rubbish-strewn rooms rooms with no toilet facilities on steel cots with no mattresses.
Some said they had been fed "rotten fruit, mouldy bread and food infested with cockroaches" from filthy kitchens.
The children who were living at the home when it was raided are gradually being transferred to other shelters in Mexico.