The under 14 years of age that reported a rape group in Palma last christmas Eve, told in her complaint that they had tried to prostituyera hours before in a bar in the neighborhood of son Gotleu, where several males of age he was offered money in exchange for sex. The girl went to file a complaint at the National Police of Palma accompanied by a worker of the reception centre in which he resides for years now. The Consell of majorca has 16 children (15 girls and one boy) under her protection, who have been victims of child sexual exploitation. Some came to protect to be victims of this crime and others have suffered from episodes of exploitation while they were in charge of the administration. The Council does not specify how many have been victims being already under guardianship.
legal Sources confirm that the less he detailed in his complaint that before you go to a building in which allegedly witnessed the sexual assault, had been in a bar in the neighborhood of son Gotleu, in which several men had been invited to drinks alcoholic and he had been offered money in exchange for sex.
The social worker who accompanied the child to give the report warned that the girl had escaped on several previous occasions and had come to a floor area of son Gotleu, in which also was the evening previous to the assault, which was recorded by one of the juveniles arrested in this case. The National Police and the office of the Prosecutor of Minors continue investigating what happened last christmas Eve on the floor in the neighborhood of Camp Redó in which the incident occurred. There are currently six children investigated for an alleged crime of sexual assault, and a girl child and a young man of 19 years as co-workers necessary to the offence. From the Institute Majorcan Social Affairs (IMAS) are considering the possibility of moving the girl to a centre to be protected from the peninsula, a decision that is adopted as an extreme measure in cases in which it is necessary to remove the victim from a hostile environment to protect it.
“they Are young people very vulnerable,”
Precisely, the Institute Majorcan Social Affairs (IMAS), which has jurisdiction over juvenile wards, has admitted this Monday more cases like this latest victim. Its president, Javier de Juan admits that there are episodes of children who have experienced situations of sexual exploitation of children while they were under the tutelage of the administration. “There are guys that already came with this problem and there are others in which the abuse has occurred in any of these outputs. Are young people very vulnerable and there are sex exploiters who know they can exploit that vulnerability,” she says. Protection centres are in the open, the children lead a more normal life and sometimes not returning at the appointed time. “What we try is to work from the link, and pedagogy. Sometimes it is successful and others not so much,” stresses John.
The protocol of the IMAS provides that where any practitioner of a centre of protection you have suspicions or evidence that a child may be a victim of child sexual exploitation should collect all the information possible and produce a report of incidences. “When we identify these situations is passed to the evaluation unit of abuses and, in the case that you give credibility to this circumstance, are transferred to prosecutor’s office, National Police or Guardia Civil,” says John. Currently, the IMAS has 16 children under her protection, who have been victims of child sexual exploitation. Two of them are in centers outside of the Balearic Islands.
The reported case for this minor has celebrated the so-called case, Nancy, for the that were tried in the Provincial court of Palma to the members of a network of child sexual exploitation operating in the capital of the balearic islands. Their ringleaders were sentenced to 59 years in prison by capturing several minor to engaged in the drug and led then to the prostitution with adults. Nora, one of those under the age of 16 years, died of an overdose in the doorway of her house. He had been captured two years before by the leader of the group, a woman who introduced to the victims in a network of sexual exploitation with other members of the group, and with young people and retirees who wanted to keep relationships with adolescents.
