Start operations to gather the street children
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SANTO DOMINGO.- One hundred specialized agents were sent this morning to the streets in Santiago and this Capital, to gather those minors less than 14 years old who clean vehicle windshields, sniff glue and roam the streets. The deployment of the first of more than 200 agents took place in a ceremony headed by Justice minister Francisco Domínguez, in the Justice Ministry’s esplanade. Domínguez said that the operation will be permanent and will use six vehicles and the Specialized Judicial Police agents to gather the minors from the streets, and that the minors will be returned to their parents. He said that in case they do not have any they would be lodged in the National Childhood Council (Conani). He said that at first the operation will be made in Santiago and the Capital, affirming that the minors will receive assistance and will be returned to their parents, under the warning that they must respond to their children’s needs or, on the contrary, they would be charged with violating Law 136-03. The official said that the Justice Ministry will make concerted efforts in improving the situation of hundreds of children who live in the streets. For her part, Assistant prosecutor Marisol Tobal, director of the Children, Adolescents and Family Department, delivered the vehicles to conduct the operation. She stressed that the Justice Ministry will not tolerate that the minors are subjected to one of the most humiliating manifestations of violence. "If the authorities notice that the minors have returned to the streets, the parents will be object of sanctions," said the official. |
