Center investigated by abuses
Parents remove to 100 young people from academy
PANI will finish to mobilization the weekend
Esteban Oviedo
[email protected] Editor of the Nation
The Office of the public prosecutor of Athens requested six months of preventive prison against Narvin Lichfield, proprietor of the controversial Academy Dundee Farm, disciplinary center for American young people.
The public prosecutor of Athens, Fernando Vargas, confirmed that he requested the same measurement for the wife of Lichfield, the Costa Rican Flora Herrera, who was the?directora in fact? of the center, he affirmed.
The Public Force stopped the day before yesterday to the Lichfield American by order of the Office of the public prosecutor of Athens in the property of Dundee Farm, in Orotina.
It made it to investigate it by the crimes of deprivation of agravated freedom, international coaction and crimes with infraction to the human rights.
Lichfield was investigated yesterday in the Penal Court of of Alajuela within the investigations by apparent abuses to minors in the academy.
In the Courts of Alajuela one inquired into which Lichfield remained in the third floor about the 4:30 p. m.
¢100 million
Vargas explained that she requested prison for Herrera because did not appear to the citation that did justice to him and?ella made many decisions? in the academy.
In addition, the Office of the public prosecutor requested for both impediment of exit and a guarantee of ¢100 million.
According to it related, by investigations through Internet esteem that Dundee Farm received to the parents between $2,000 (¢789.000) and $3,000 (¢1.183.000) monthly ones to take care of each boy.
The public prosecutor also expressed his preoccupation by the fact that all the young people are removed from the country, because they require themselves as witnesses for the case.
It called the attention so that the PANI makes sure that they are not transferred to similar centers in other countries, because they would suffer just like here.
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Rosalía Gil: ?La situation is controlled? in Dundee Farm.
File /The NATION
There was panic, says Gil
Esteban Oviedo
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