A 12-year-old girl who expressed her desire for the pregnancy caused by her father’s abuse to be terminatedand that the weekend was Captured by a “pro-life” group from Santa Fewas placed under the State protection system and now her situation is being evaluated, official spokespersons reported this Wednesday.
The girl, a native of the town of Garibaldi, located 122 kilometers from the city of Santa Fe, she was due to have her pregnancy terminated last Monday, but she didn’t show up at the hospital because over the weekend she was taken to a house of the Gravida Civil Association, from where she was rescued this Tuesday.
now the girl She is hospitalized with her mother in a public hospital. of Santa Fe and as reported by the Secretary of Childhood, Adolescence and Family of the province, Patricia Chialvothe authorities will wait for him to “calm down” to make a decision.
According to spokesmen for the Ministry of Health, the girl is in the second trimester of pregnancy and would be in time to undergo a Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE).
The girl was taken by her mother for a medical check-up on December 19, in which it was found that she was pregnant, for which the two expressed their intention to terminate the pregnancy and signed a consent.
The health authorities set the date for last Monday, but mother and daughter did not attend the appointment because during the weekenda were contacted by the Gravida association, whose members took her to a house in Santa Fe.
Without news of the whereabouts of both, the Santa Fe Justice activated the search and this Tuesday rescued the girl with the public force to take her to a hospital.
At the same time, prosecutor Alejandra Del Río Ayala ordered the arrest of the The girl’s father, identified with the initials GMA, 42, who was arrested in the city of Recreo and will be charged with the crime of aggravated sexual abuse.
Now, professionals from the Secretariat for Children and the Ministries of Health and Social Development are analyzing the steps to follow to guarantee the girl’s right to access the procedure established by the Law 27,610, to terminate the pregnancy in the event that it so decides.
On the other hand, Chialvo said that “it is evaluating” whether the State will take action against the Gravida association, since the priority was to rescue the girl, for which an exceptional protection measure was issued.
“The times scheduled to give continuity to what was agreed (the interruption) were hindered by the intervention of a civil organization that put its conscientious objection before an already acquired right and took the girl and her mother out of the sphere of the State “, indicated a statement from the Children’s Secretariat.
