Overview
- Investigators carried out simultaneous pre-dawn searches at two Casa de las Mercedes sites in Cuauhtémoc and Venustiano Carranza, seizing computers and documents to recover files on girls and staff.
- FGJCDMX is pursuing cases for aggravated rape and labor exploitation and opened a second file for suspected human trafficking tied to alleged domestic servitude.
- Aquiles “N”, son of the founder, remains bound over for trial on aggravated rape and is held in preventive detention at Reclusorio Oriente.
- Authorities will conduct trauma‑informed interviews with all relocated minors and are examining the possible roles of director Ángela “N” and her mother Claudia “N”; ex‑residents have protested the closure.
- In separate developments, Peru’s judiciary scheduled a hearing to weigh a 120‑day travel ban with restrictions for police officer Luis Magallanes over the death of rapper Eduardo “Truko” Ruiz, and Aguascalientes officials contained a prison riot that left three inmates injured as families alleged extortion inside the facility.