Michoacán News: 400 Abused Children Rescued From 'Mama Rosa' Home In Mexico

In a federal operation headed by the Attorney General and the Department of Defense, 596 people who were exploited and suffered physical abuse were rescued from the hostel La Gran Familia, in Zamora, Michoacán, which has been operating since 1947. Jesús Murillo Karam, from the Attorney General's Office, and the Governor Salvador Jara led a press conference in which they announced the arrest of Mrs. Rosa del Carmen Verduzco and eight others.

He explained that of the 596 victims released there are six babies between two months and two years, 174 girls aged between three and 17 years, 278 boys of the same age and 138 adults between 18 and 40. "In the search we found dozens of children in a very poor condition (...) let me say that there were rats, bedbugs, fleas," said Murillo Karam. The Governor stated that the intervention of federal authorities came after being informed of the allegations for over a year against the hostel also known as "Mama Rosa".

Thomas Zerón Lucio, chief of the Criminal Investigation Agency (CIA), explained that the operation was derived from at least 50 complaints against the group home managers, mainly from the lady Carmen Rosa Verduzco, for the illegal deprivation of freedom. "Babies born at home were registered as children of the founder, without allowing biological parents to grant them some protection," he said.