This April 30 the Reinserta organization released ‘We were never children’, a short film that portrays, through a sensitive and direct narrative, the stories of girls, boys and adolescents recruited by organized crime in Mexico.
The production, launched in collaboration with the Rainbow Lobster, Made and The Teachers agencies, portrays the thousands of children who are taken from their childhood and used by criminal groups, according to a statement.
The material is available on the YouTube channel of Penance, and 100% of the monetization generated will be destined to finance care and prevention programs of children promoted by the Reinserta organization.
According to network data for childhood rights in Mexico cited in the statement, more than 30 thousand minors have been recruited by organized crime, and on average, 28 girls, boys and adolescents disappear every day in the country.
Reinserta added that the Inter -American Commission on Human Rights had already alerted since 2015 on the recruitment of minors between 9 and 11 years for these groups.
He recalled that in 2021 he published an investigation with more than 80 testimonies of minors involved with organized crime.
Although the findings were publicly presented and even retaken by legislators and political figures towards the 2024 electoral process, Reinserta denounced that the commitments have not resulted in effective actions.
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He pointed out that recent cases such as the Izaguirre ranch show that the problem persists and demands urgent responses.
Reinserta’s co -founder, Saskia Niño de Rivera, said in an audio comment that the organization seeks the typification of the crime of forced recruitment, not only as an aggravating trafficking, but is a crime on its own, so that people who use minors within organized crime are faced with real consequences.
“Forced recruitment in Mexico is a reality that concerns us all. Today boys, girls and adolescents are a target and an opportunity for organized crime, and it is a problem of realization of real violence,” he said.
“It is time to generate the necessary public policies and serve adolescents in our country, children and adolescents urgently,” he added.
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