Sunday 09 March 2003
PANI reports 100 girls under the age of 14
pregnant this year so far!
 During
the coming months, 100 girls under the age of 14 will become mothers. This
according to the cases that at the moment are reported to the Patronato Nacional
de la Infancia, PANI, though there could be more cases that go unreported.
This situation has caused the executive president
of the institution, Rosalνa Gil, to start up a preventive plan, that will try
to attack the problem by three levels of action; inform to the parents on the
correct attention to their minor children; to impel campaigns for the prevention
of adolescent pregnancy; and provide psychological and legal attention to 300 or
so adolescents that do not have the support of their parents of family.
It is estimated that annually 600 minors give
birth.
Abuse
charges denied
Rocky Mountain News
An Aurora man Thursday flatly denied allegations
of sexual and physical abuse that Barbara Vigil says led her to flee to Costa
Rica with her 4-year-old daughter.
Vigil is on trial in Jefferson County District Court for violating a custody
agreement.
She is fighting the charge using a choice-of-evils defense, contending that
she violated the custody order and fled with her daughter to protect the girl
from her father.
But Russ McCallian said he never abused his wife or his daughter. He said he
launched a desperate search to find the child, now 6, after Vigil disappeared
with her in April 2001.
Full
story at Denver Rocky Mountain News
KU representatives, Costa Rican officials to discuss student's death
The Kansas City Star
Two University of Kansas representatives will
talk to Costa Rican officials this week about the 2001 murder of KU student
Shannon Martin.
The university released a letter Tuesday from Costa Rican President Abel
Pacheco de la Espriella about the meeting with Jeffery Weinberg, the
chancellor's assistant, and Diana Carlin, dean of the graduate school and
international programs.
Weinberg and Carlin flew to Costa Rica on Tuesday for meetings with the
government and University of Costa Rica officials.
"My government is committed to seeing that the cruel murder of Shannon
Martin, which has caused so much pain, be solved as quickly as possible,"
Pacheco wrote to Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway on Feb. 24.
Full
story at Kansas City Star
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