Overview
- The Mexico City prosecutor’s office searched two Casa de las Mercedes properties, seizing computers and documents to recover case files and personnel records.
- Authorities will interview the relocated girls with psychological support to assess whether the reported crimes were isolated incidents or part of a pattern.
- Investigators previously reported that the shelter’s director allegedly moved an adolescent irregularly to her mother’s home where she was likely made to perform domestic work.
- A man identified as Aquiles “N” is in custody, accused of sexually assaulting the girl after administering a substance that prevented resistance.
- Former residents and mothers blocked Avenida Insurgentes and México‑Tenochtitlan, condemning the operation as inhumane and alleging inadequate conditions at relocation sites such as the Coruña center.