Inside La Gran Familia Group Home - Mexico's 'House of Horrors' Juan Juarez - NBC News
go to original July 19, 2014

ZAMORA, Mexico - This week, Mexican military soldiers and federal police raided La Gran Familia, (The Great Family), a group home serving poor children, most of them abandoned or homeless. When police arrived, they found 458 children living in vermin-infested conditions. The children had allegedly been victims of routinely physical and sexual abuse and starvation. Nine adults are under arrest, including the founder and director of The Great Family, Rosa Del Carmen Verduzco, known as “Mama Rosa.” Charges include holding minors against their will.

NBC’s Telemundo correspondent Cristina Londoño went inside the group home after the raid.

“She would hit us, and feed us food with worms,” one of the boys said on Telemundo’s camera, talking of the rotten food they had to eat. Twenty tons of trash have been removed from the home, according to Mexican authorities.

Outside, parents of children in the group home became desperate. One mother yelled outside the group home, “I want my daughter back now.” “Support us now,” she cried.

But before family members are able to get a hold of any children, they must first submit to DNA tests, present statements to police, and wait for the results.

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