A total of six minors, two of them with disabilities, were rescued today from a house in the Tierras Argentinas neighborhood of Bahía Blanca, where they lived inhuman conditions.
The complaint of a woman, who showed a photo of the room in which a 12-year-old boy with a disability lived, was the beginning of an investigation that led to a search carried out today, by members of the Fifth Police Station, at a home located at the intersection of Nicolás Pérez and Eva Duarte streets.
Police sources consulted by LA BRÚJULA 24 mentioned that it was the mother herself who confessed that she “kept locked up” and “made sleep” this boy in a room one meter by two, with a dirt floor and with a jail door.
“The room was practically a cell. That is why I was alarmed and began to mount this operation, giving notice to the Prosecutor’s Office No. 8, of Dr. Romero Jardín (Marcelo) and to the local service of the municipality, “revealed Commissioner Nicolás Pérez, head of the aforementioned police station.
“The bed was a pallet, with a very damaged mattress and the back of a chair was the pillow. The kid slept and was locked up there. What’s more, the same mother was the one who said she locked him behind bars because he escaped,” added Pérez.
At the scene, an act was drawn up for the investigation of the alleged crime, and the police proceeded to remove the bars.
The boys and the mother will be reviewed by a doctor and will carry out the corresponding analyzes to know the conditions in which they are.
The issue will be fully addressed by the minors’ service, although for the moment the minors will not be removed from the house.
“The mother was notified that this cannot continue. We understand that it is a very precarious neighborhood, but minors cannot continue living in these conditions,” Pérez added
