Ana Cecilia Morum Solano I quit to her position as Executive President of the National Council for Children and Adolescents (CONANI)at the end of last July, without a new or new head of that State dependency having been designated officially and by decree so far, so that, as far as is known in the public opinion the institution it’s found headless.
However, the First Lady of the Republic, Raquel Arbaje, who is the president of the Cabinet for Children and Adolescents, is the one who has been seen leading the public acts of the institution during the days after Morum’s resignation, who, let us remember, after making his resignation public, said that he would support the institution from a less demanding position.
It is recalled that Arbaje clearly established since her husband, the president, Luis Abinader, assumed power in 2020, that she did not want to handle a large amount of public funds and neither did a large number of employees for that technical-administrative unit.
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What happened?
The question: Who is in charge of CONANI? It is pertinent given the recent episodes that have questioned the institution’s management of the minors it is called to protect and who are, precisely, under its care.
After the resignation of its president, Ana Cecilia Morum, parents of minors taken to foster homes denounce that their children have been seen begging in the streets after escaping from CONANI supervision for alleged mistreatment and that the institution has not given notice to The parents.
Likewise, another minor suffered a fall from the roof of a third floor in one of the CONANI facilities while she was under the supervision of four adults who work for the institution and were carrying out an outdoor activity together with a small group of children. minors.
In this case, the institution explained that until last weekend it was trying to find the parents of the minor who received the corresponding medical attention after presenting a severe head injury, but that it had not been possible.
