Parents of children killed in ABC Day-care fire turn to international organizations to administer justice

By Omar Brito
El Economista

A day after Mexico's Supreme Court exonerated three high-ranking Calderon administration officials from responsibility in the fire that killed 49 children at the ABC Day-care Center last July 5, a group of parents announced they are taking the case to international organizations.

The 5th of July Movement, formed by parents of the deceased children in the wake of the fire in Hermosillo, said the group is asking the United Nation's High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights to intervene.

At a press conference, parents Jose Garci'a, Manuel Rodriguez and Patricia Duarte criticized the high court's ruling, saying it fell short and left a "bad taste in their mouths."

The ABC Day-care Center, which was operating in a converted warehouse, was federally funded, but privately operated. The Social Security Institute provided a contact for operation. Two state officials, whose wives co-owned the facility, resigned.

But the Supreme Court refused to place blame on Juan Molinar Horcasitas, current Secretary of Communications and Transport, Eduardo Bours, former Sonora governor, and IMSS director Daniel Karam.

“Partial and slanted justice is not justice," said Caesar Marquez, a spokesman for the 5th of July Movement.

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