Overview
- The proceedings were annulled and the five people detained in October in Navarra and Lleida were released without charges.
- Guardia Civil, Mossos d’Esquadra and Catalan child-protection officials confirmed the girl left protective care and returned to Navarra with her parents.
- The inquiry began after a social services report and led police to locate the teenager begging outside a supermarket in Les Borges Blanques on October 3.
- Earlier police accounts alleged her parents sold her for €5,000, five bottles of whisky and food to a family in Mollerussa, but the court found no proof of a formal transaction.
- Investigators had initially attributed human trafficking for forced marriage and child mendicancy, yet the case was archived for lack of evidence.