Mexico City, (EFE) .- The Attorney General of the Mexican Republic (FGR) confirmed on Monday that he asked the United States to extradition to Mexico from Sandra Téllez, partner of the ABC nursery in Sonora, where 49 children died in 2009 in 2009, and who was arrested last weekend in the US.
In a statement, the FGR recapitulated that Téllez, who was a fugitive since 2022, “was arrested by US authorities because, having been sentenced in Mexico by a federal judge in that case, he breached with the sentence of probation, and fled to the United States.”
In this regard, the Prosecutor’s Office also reported that, since September 2024, he managed through the Mexican Foreign Ministry “the provisional arrest for extradition of said person”, which facilitated his capture in Tucson, Arizona, by the US authorities, who indicated that the corresponding hearing will be held on October 8.
This morning, President Claudia Sheinbaum said that her government will seek extradition to Mexico from Téllez, in response to the demands of the parents of the victims and survivors of the fire, who demand that women be made available to Mexican authorities.
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In an open letter signed by the Manos United Organization by our children, the victims’ parents claim that an American law firm would be requesting political asylum for the partner of the nursery, with the argument that it is persecuted politics.
Téllez Nieves is pointed out as a partner of the ABC nursery, in Hermosillo, capital of Sonora.
In 2016, the detainee was sentenced to 28 years, 11 months and 4 days in jail, but after several appeals and amparos his sentence was reduced to 5 years and 7 months in jail, although he was a fugitive from justice. Since February 2022, Téllez has a re -apprehension order.
On June 5, 2009, a fire that began in a winery in the Ministry of Finance of the State Government of Sonora spread towards the ABC nursery, subrogated by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).
In the conflagration, 25 girls and 24 boys under five years old died and more than seventy infants with severe burns in their body and more than 39 with affectations in their body survived.
The nursery had the emergency exits blocked and breached with the security measures, despite which no one is in prison for their responsibility in the fire.
Although more than twenty public public officials have been set, many have died and those who are alive have not received a sentence.
The families of the victims have denounced that there are arrest warrants, but the authorities do not execute them, while public officials and partners of the ABC nursery remain unpunished.
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