http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... uage_toolsVanessa Loaiza N.
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The National Patronage of Infancia (PANI) accepted yesterday that it knew the irregularities in the Academy Dundee Farm from March, but granted one second opportunity to him so that it corrected due.
ILLEGAL
Dundee farm did not have endorsement of the MEP
The president of the PANI, Rosalía Gil, said that at that moment they identified at least nine problems that they included I mistreat psychological physicist and, hacinamiento and lack of permissions of operation of the Ministry of Educacio'n Pu'blica (MEP).
?Eso yes, I want to clarify that the things in the last hurried days with publications in the press, but from before already we were investigating, Gil said.
Fotos/Infos
World-wide promotion
Critics
The director of the organization nongovernmental House Alliance, Brushes Harris, he questioned the efficiency of the PANI and assured that this institution knew the problems in the Academy from October of the 2002 and it did not act.
How many aggressions had been saved if the PANI and the MEP had acted before, Harris was asked.
House Alliance even assured that it has in his power at least 20 denunciations by I mistreat, the one a young person who lost two teeth when during a punishment they kicked it in the mouth.
In a similar sanction, another young person presented/displayed a fracture in the shoulder and others complained ailments in the knees more because they forced them to remain sunk during hours in stone surfaces full.
So far, House Alliance resorted to the Committee against Tortura of the United Nations so that it comes to the country to investigate the case.
According to the promotion in Internet, Dundee Farm is settled down in Orotina from 1991 and forms part of a World-wide Association of Specialized Programs and Schools (WWASPS), with seat in Utah, the United States.
This Academy became controversial subject from last October, when the newspaper in English The Tico Times denounced supposed cases of abuse and punishment to discipline to adolescents with problems of drug and behavior.
In the last weeks the cuestionamientos already worsened with new publications of the American newspaper The New York Times and the Costa Rican To the Day.
Few advances
Meanwhile, the Office of the public prosecutor of Athens works in the case; nevertheless, single account with a civil employee to take care of this denunciation and all those that appear in that corner, Orotina and San Mateo.
The public prosecutor of the zone, Maria of the Alfaro Angels, assumed the file Saturday and so far he is confiscating stationery store in the academy and interrogating the boys who follow in the country.
Of the 200 people who lived in the yesterday single Farm they were left 18. The young people continue receiving lessons, but under the supervision of the PANI, Rosalía Gil said.
In addition, the owner of the Academy, Narvin Lichfield, was released Friday, after which the Court of Alajuela misestimated the request of the tendiente Office of the public prosecutor to impose six months to him of preventive prison. Lichfield had been stopped Thursday.
