Guatemala Raids Save the Child Charity Offices

Guatemalan prosecutors have raided the offices of charity Save the Children due to allegations that the charity is in violation of migrant children’s rights.

The complaint was filed under an unidentified foreigner who had brought forward serious allegations of abuse of children at the hands of American tax-payer funded non-governmental organizations, says prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche.

The criminal reports filed with Guatemala’s Public Ministry allege unaccompanied children have suffered sexual and physical abuse at facilities operated by U.S. tax-payer funded NGOs. These children are then trafficked into the United States from Guatemala.

Guatemala’s Secretary General, Ángel Pineda, sent a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton a week before the raid, requesting support to address the serious allegations that the charity, as well as other aid groups, “could be participating in child trafficking operations.”

It is unknown if the Texas Attorney General’s office took initiative upon receipt of the letter, however, due to the serious nature of the allegations, the raid was conducted in order to search for documentation that could potentially lend support to the complaint filed.

In a letter obtained by investigative journalist Sara Carter, Save the Children isn’t the only American tax-payer funded NGO under investigation by Guatemala’s Attorney General after they received complaints of NGOs taking part in the abuse, disappearance and trafficking of Guatemala’s children.

HHS whistleblower, Tara Lee Rodas, was interviewed by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement last year where she told the committee:

“I thought I was going to help place children in loving homes.”

“Instead, I discovered that children are being trafficked through a sophisticated network that begins with recruiting in their home country, smuggled to the U.S. border, and ends when [Office of Refugee Resettlement] delivers a child to a sponsor — some sponsors are criminals and traffickers and members of Transnational Criminal Organizations,” she said.

“Some sponsors view children as commodities and assets to be used for earning income — this is why we are witnessing an explosion of labor trafficking.”

The Biden Administration gave tens of billions of dollars in grants to NGOs working to house, feed, educate and provide resources to illegal aliens entering the United States.

In an interview with journalist Sara Carter, Guatemala’s Secretary General Angel Pineda with the Public Ministry said:

“Due to the situation that is happening in Texas, regarding different forms of abuses of some Guatemalan children and adolescents, when the institution received that criminal complaint, the institution has started investigations, so it is necessary to work on this matter in an integral way.”

In his letter to Texas’ AG, Porras states:

“These Guatemalan children have reportedly been placed in shelters and organizations throughout Texas under the guise of providing them with a family environment. Disturbingly, there have been reports and documented situations of sexual abuse in these shelters, which is a huge violation of the rights and dignity of these children.”

“The State of Texas bears much of the responsibility for these lost children, who have been transferred to the border and processed migratory (through migration procedures) in Texas apparently fully aware of this situation,” the letter reads.

NGOs have been found complicit in the trafficking of vulnerable individuals before, so although this is shocking news, it isn’t anything new.

Earlier this year, the Texas Attorney General’s office was suing Annunciation House, a Catholic NGO which operates “several houses of hospitality” for migrants and refugees in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

According to the AG’s office, Annunciation House is an “entry point” for illegal aliens who are trafficked to the U.S.

“The chaos at the southern border has created an environment where NGOs, funded with taxpayer money from the Biden Administration, facilitate astonishing horrors including human smuggling. While the federal government perpetuates the lawlessness destroying this country, my office works day in and day out to hold these organizations responsible for worsening illegal immigration,” AG Paxton said earlier this year.

Based upon testimony given by those who have testified before Congress, the allegations of abuse often occur at facilities contracted by the government.

The United States is facing historic levels of illegal border crossings. The significance of Guatemala to the trafficking operations which help usher children into the country is that it is a main transit route for aliens on their journey into the U.S.

Save the Children issued a statement stating it has no evidence that the allegations they are facing are true:

“We take the allegations of children’s safety and misconduct very seriously and have independent investigative mechanisms in place to investigate thoroughly,” the statement said.

“We have no evidence to validate such allegations and we continue to work hard to provide humanitarian assistance to migrant children and their families under strict safety and protection standards.”

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