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Two teenagers aged 13 and 15 who are warded by the autonomous community of Murcia were allegedly coerced last February to have sexual relations with adults in exchange for money and sexually assaulted by two men.
The National Police recently arrested four people for these events: two men who had sexual relations with the minors and two women who urged the girls to become prostitutes.
Although the attacks occurred on February 8, as confirmed by the National Police, it was not until this Tuesday that it emerged that the minors were under the guardianship of the autonomous community.
Sources from the Department of Social Policy, on which the centers where these minors are housed depend, have confirmed the facts and have indicated that it was the administration itself that “filed a complaint, first, regarding the disappearance of the minors.” and second, for possible crime of sexual abuse.”
According to police sources, two women approached the teenagers in the San Andrés neighborhood of Murcia capital, where the bus station is located.
The girls would have arrived there from the municipality of Molina de Segura, about 10 kilometers from the capital, where they reside.
The two women, according to the police report, suggested that the girls accompany them to another town, Cehegín, about 70 kilometers away, to have sexual relations with men in exchange for money.
“Overcome by circumstances”
The two minors “at first consented to this proposal” and went with the women to an apartment where two men, without their consent, sexually assaulted them, later giving them 20 euros to each of them.
Returning to Molina de Segura, the girls went to the police station, where they told the officers what had happened and told them that “they had been overcome by the circumstances.”
Both the two women who convinced the teenagers and the two men who attacked them were arrested on February 23 and have been released with charges.
The Ministry of Social Policy has insisted that “from the first moment, the corresponding action protocols were applied in the event of possible situations of sexual abuse.”
The minors have been provided with “comprehensive support and attention from professionals specialized in the matter” and the priority of the counseling, they insist, is “to ensure the recovery of the minors and their emotional well-being.”
The same sources have indicated that “this is an isolated case” and there is no record of any other episode of this type.
They have also insisted that the child protection centers “are not configured as custodial centers,” but that the minors who reside in them can leave to go to their studies or carry out their extracurricular activities.
In addition, on weekends “they can go out freely” and must return, at the latest, at 10 p.m.
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