Case of Fatima: schools in Mexico City must follow this protocol to deliver children

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(CNN Spanish) - The cruel murder of Fatima, the little girl who was kidnapped from her school and later brutally murdered and thrown in a plastic bag, has triggered alerts about the safety of children in schools in Mexico City.

The authorities published a video in which it shows that the girl would have been taken from school by a woman. According to the Prosecutor's Office, when Fatima's mother came to pick up her daughter, the girl was gone.

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Luis Humberto Fernández Fuentes, head of the Federal Educational Authority in Mexico City (AEFCM), said that in addition to the judicial investigation, an administrative investigation is currently underway with the school to establish if there were failures in the protocol established to deliver to the children.

Fernández Fuentes said that he already spoke “with the school principal and with the teacher who made the delivery and we are taking all the details and it should be noted that both the teacher and the principal are available and are collaborating with the criminal investigation, and also We have opened an administrative investigation from the beginning ”.

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The protocol

In Mexico City there is a guide for the operability of schools at all levels, which includes a protocol to give parents to children who leave school.

According to the document, to deliver a minor student, the personnel responsible for the minors must request a corresponding credential from those who are authorized to pick up the children.

“For no reason will infants be delivered to minors, as well as to parents, mothers or guardians and / or relatives in an inconvenient state (alcoholic, drugged, etc.). In case of loss of credential, the replacement must be requested in writing specifying the reason ”, says the rule.

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What happens if the parents do not get to pick up the children?

Although in a first meeting parents and teachers agree on the rules for the collection of children in schools and gardens, in case a visitor cannot pick up the child, “the support of the corresponding authorities will be requested so that the students are transferred by the director of the educational staff or staff authorized to the Agency 59 ”, an institution of the Attorney General of Mexico City.

"The child has to be taken to the Public Prosecutor's agency and be accompanied at all times by school officials," Fernández Fuentes said in a press conference on Tuesday. "The obligation of the directors and teachers is to give the girl or boy to someone accredited and at no time the child is left outside the school ... there is an established protocol and works on a regular and mandatory basis in the schools of the CDMX."

As for children who go alone from home to school, they must be “fully identified and carry the corresponding credential” and educational establishments must have the express authorization of the family regarding their transfer.

In the case of Fatima, the AEFCM official said that it is not true the girl was abandoned and that the school closed. He clarified that the delivery of the children that day was done in a normal way and that Fatima was not left unattended.

Research continues and a reward is offered

The Attorney General of Mexico City, Ernestina Godoy, said there are five people who are being interviewed as witnesses in the case of the disappearance and death of Fatima.

The authorities still do not mention any suspect, and have already ruled out that the crime has to do with organ trafficking, according to autopsy information.

The Prosecutor's Office in Mexico announced Monday that it offers a reward of US $ 107,000 to anyone who gives information about a woman who appears in a video from the hand of the Fatima girl. This Tuesday they published a spoken portrait of the woman, who would be between 42 and 45 years old.

The authorities have not said whether or not the woman in the picture is suspected of the murder.

In the video published by the authorities, a white vehicle appears in which the child would have been transported, and from which the owner's data is already available, and that was parked in a property in Xochimilco that has already been searched by the authorities. The Prosecutor's Office ruled out that members of the minor's family and academic staff are related to the crime.

Meanwhile, prosecutor Godoy announced that it will evaluate how officials acted in the investigation of the case and that an exemplary sanction will be sought if any “irregularity in the investigation” is documented.

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