Last February, the National Honorary Commission for Sites of Memory declared the former Hogar Yaguarón a site of memory.
That Saturday, July 30, the signaling and inauguration act of the space was carried out under a new perspective.
The story of those who passed through said home was told by Mabel Fleitas, who during State terrorism was one of the adolescents who remained detained in the building.
Women’s Home for Minors
During the state terrorism it was known as “Female Home for Minors, Female Home No. 2”, a detention center for girls and adolescents.
During the civic-military dictatorship and the previous authoritarian years, young minors, student militants and leftist parties were detained there.
In 1975, a group of adolescents who had been detained and tortured in the Infantry Battalion No. 10 of the Department of Treinta y Tres were held for approximately seven months, as part of a repressive operation against the Union of Communist Youth (UJC), he recalled. Memory Sites.
The mansion functioned for years as a detention center for female adolescents under State protection.
At present, it continues to belong to the National Institute for Children and Adolescents of Uruguay (INAU), but it is not functioning and is for sale.
