Catholic Church in Argentina asks for justice and commitment of authorities before the crime of three young people

After the finding of the bodies of the young Brenda del Castillo, Morena Verri and Lara Gutiérrez, who were missing since last Friday, the bishops of Quilmes and San Justo expressed their pain and joined the claim of justice.

The bodies of the three young people – two of 20 and one of 15 years – were found dismembered this Wednesday during a raid in the Buenos Aires town of Florencio Varela, and in the case there are four detainees.

When the news of the triple crime is known, The Bishop of Quilmes, Mons. Carlos José Tissera, and his auxiliary bishop, Mons. Eduardo Redondothey expressed their pain and regretted that “near the International Day against Sexual Exploitation and Traffic of Women, Girls and Children (September 23), these young victims of many of these scourges have to be fired.”

Likewise, the prelates repudiated “all made of violence and death, today shown in these girls” and expressed closeness and prayer to families, on behalf of the diocesan community, joining in turn to the claim of justice and the request to the national, provincial and municipal authorities, of “prompt and effective actions of care and promotion of boys, girls, adolescents, young people and vulnerable people.”

“If the State runs, drug trafficking enters,” the bishops recalled, in reference to a hypothesis that links the murder of young women when acting a band of drug traffickers, and invited “to commitment, as a society, to take care and defend life.”

A long list of violence and death

It also spoke regarding what happened Obishop of San Justo, Mons. Eduardo Garcíawho expressed deep pain and expressed closeness with the families and friends of the three girls.

This episode, the prelate denounced, “adds to the long list of acts of violence and death that have hit our neighborhoods for a long time.”

“We are witnessing that large areas have been freed at the mercy of drug mafias – small and large -scale – that infiltrated and ended up dominating and razing the lives of our people, especially children and young people, installing a true culture of crime and crime,” he added.

“The constant absence of the State at its different levels allows this culture of destruction and death to grow and advance without brake. The repeated lack of public policies becomes, in practice, complicity,” warned the bishop.

“Before so helplessness, as a church in San Justo we reaffirm our commitment to continue working for our children and young people from the three ‘C’ of life: school, club and chapel, as opposed to the three ‘C’ of death: street, jail and cemetery,” he said.

“We need careful neighborhoods, where a homeland where it is not the barbarism paid that eduque, but where inclusion, health, security and a true life project for our children, youth and families,” said Mons. García, ensuring their prayer for these families and “for all which, in our homeland, suffer under the scourge of institutionalized drug trafficking.”