Villeda was alluding to the 14th-century poem The Inferno by Italian author Dante Alighieri that depicts punishments suffered in Hell. The Virgen de la Asuncion home has been closed for now and the young people there rehoused elsewhere, the president said. Morales' spokesman Heinz Heimann said victims of abuse were mixed in with juvenile offenders in what he criticized as open living arrangements. More than 500 minors were living in the facility, located in a wooded area outside San Jose Pinula, although Guatemalan media said its capacity was 400. It is tragic," said Carlos Soto, director of the Roosevelt Hospital, describing severe burns to their lungs, throats and skin.

Source: bd News24 March 10, 2017 06:09 UTC