Officers Shoot Two Minors in Foster Home, Police General Resigns
TALCAHUANO – During a police operation on Wednesday on the premises of a residence for minors in state care, Carabineros police shot two minors. Both...
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The Rights of Minors Are No Priority in Chile
An agreement to share private information about minors in the minors’ service (SENAME) with intelligence services generated controversy. On Monday, the government annulled the agreement....
Increasing Troubles in Chile’s Sename Children Homes
SANTIAGO — The Supreme Court released a report which reveals that almost half of the homes managed by the National Service for Minors (Sename) are...
Thousands of minors in Sename’s institutions use drugs
SANTIAGO – Sename reports that as of February 2019 there were 3,801 minors within its institutions who used alcohol and/or drugs. Sename workers say this...
Government closes criticized Playa Ancha center for children
SANTIAGO – On March 13, the government closed the Playa Ancha residential center for children. It is the first of many such closures. The Piñera...
Protest in Sename: four minors hospitalized after eating glass
CORONEL – Four minors have been taken to the hospital on Saturday after eating glass in the Internment Center of Sename in Coronel in the...