'HELL FOR CHILDREN'
‘Sadistic’ nuns ‘tortured 65 kids by burning their hands and shoving their heads down toilet bowls in care home’
The disturbing case took place in the city of Popayan, capital of the Colombian department of Cauca.
A PAIR of nuns have been arrested for torturing 65 children in their care by burning their hands and forcing their heads down toilet bowls.
The disturbing case took place in the city of Popayan, capital of the Colombian department of Cauca.
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Director of the Santa Clara Rebirth Home, Sor Ines Perez, and her colleague Rosa Elvira Trochez Joaqui were both arrested following a police probe.
The authorities had been alerted to possible torture in the care home by neighbours who heard screams and cries from the kids who lived there.
Investigators found that the youngsters suffered physical and psychological torment in the care home with neighbours branding it as hell for the children, according to local media.
The kids reportedly had their hands burnt, were forced to put their heads down toilets and had their hair cut as punishment.
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Perez and Joaqui were both charged with the aggravated torture of the children under their care from 2014 to 2017 with both denying the charges.
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Local reports suggest the care home had previously been shut down for complaints but had been allowed to reopen.
Perez said that neither the Colombian Institute of Family Well-Being (ICBF) nor the local government had given them support or resources to help the displaced children that came to the home.
The case is ongoing and the children who were in the home are now in the care of the ICBF.
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