Earlier than the Inter-American Courtroom of Human Rights, the State of Chile admitted its “partial” accountability for abuses in its juvenile detention facilities and particularly for the demise of 10 adolescents in 2007.

The popularity was expressed by the Chilean illustration in a listening to held in Brasilia, throughout the framework of the 167th interval of periods of that group.

Within the occasion, the pinnacle of Human Rights of the Chilean Overseas Ministry, Pascual Ricke, assured that the State has already acknowledged the details and fulfilled its responsibility to research.

The above, particularly, because of the hearth that occurred in October 2007 on the “Tiempo de Crecer” Provisional Internment Heart in Puerto Montt, run by the Nationwide Service for Minors (Sename).

On the identical time, he rejected the place of the victims’ representatives, who allege the shortage of punishment for these accountable, since, in response to Ricke, following an investigation that lasted 20 months “he discovered no proof of an intentional crime.”

On this manner, the case concluded with administrative sanctions towards six Sename officers and the courtroom decided the dismissal of the case.

Ricke added that, as well as, the households of every of the victims acquired compensation equal to $98,000 and acknowledged “the comprehensiveness of the reparation.”