Beaten and Deprived of Food: Two Cases of Child Slavery Alert Chile · Global Voices

In the past week, two cases of enslavement and degrading treatment of minors have been reported in Chile. The last one is a 13-year-old child whose stepmother has been formalized for serious ill-treatment and frustrated homicide in Iquique, in the north of the country. The other victim is an eight-year-old Bolivian girl who was sold by her grandmother to a family of the same nationality for 350,000 pesos (US$ 353) and was transferred to an illeg…

[Seoul Newspaper Now News] When the story of an 8-year-old Bolivian girl sold abroad like a slave became known through Chilean media, it shocked both countries. Shockwaves were added when it was revealed that the child's grandmother was the one who sold it to people who had no recourse. Chilean media said, “The police who rescued the child are securing a new recruit from the couple who bought the child and even the grandmother who sold the child…

For Movilh several of the attacks and insults received by the child were clear signs of homophobia. Therefore, he asked the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate these events, whatever the child’s supposed or actual sexual orientation, as well as to guarantee him a psychological accompaniment that was unprejudiced for his healthy development. The Integration and Liberation Movement [...]

During the last few days a horrible case of child abuse against a 13-year-old child in Iquique came to light. The minor, in the care of his stepmother, lived in the open in the courtyard, in inhuman conditions and in turn was forced to do housework, however, new details give [...] This article spent months without bathing and days without eating or drinking water: New details of the serious case of child abuse against 13-year-old child in Iquiqu…

During the hearing, prosecutor Camila Albarracín read the story of the child where she detailed the conditions in which she lived: “I was cold. Sometimes she threw me without poleron, with nothing. She wouldn’t let me in the bathroom. I couldn’t bathe,” she said.

In a context of deep concern for children in our country, the parliamentarian, Marlene Pérez (Indep-UDI), president of the Commission for Social Development, announced that she will cite the defender of children, Anuar Quesille, following recent reports that reveal an alarming increase in cases of child abuse. This decision arises after two brutal cases in Iquique and Rengo were made public, where an 8-year-old Bolivian girl was sold by her gran…