“NO EVIDENCE”
AFP reporters at the scene saw prosecutors entering the building of Save the Children, which has been working in Guatemala since a devastating earthquake in 1976 that left more than 25,000 people dead.
It opened a permanent office there in 1983 and says it provides education, health, child protection and humanitarian aid, including to migrant children and their families who cross Guatemala’s southern border.
In a statement released last week, Save the Children denied facilitating “the movement of children” out of Guatemala.
“We take all child safeguarding and misconduct allegations extremely seriously and have independent investigative mechanisms in place to investigate them thoroughly,” the statement said.
“We have no evidence to support these claims and remain dedicated to providing humanitarian aid to migrant children and their families under strict standards of protection and safeguarding,” it added.
Guatemalan newspaper Prensa Libre had reported that the prosecutor’s office sent a letter to the Texas attorney general on Apr 12 naming Save the Children and several other non-govermental organisations that were under suspicion.
It said the organisations were suspected of “participating in a child trafficking operation”.
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