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Mexico Holds Officials Accountable for Daycare Fire
 Agence France-Presse
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June 04, 2010
| | A relative of one of the young victims who died in a fire in a daycare center in Hermosillo, Mexico last June 5 holds a pair of charred baby shoes during a demostration in Mexico City. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP) | |
Mexico City - Two days before the anniversary of a daycare center blaze that killed 49 children, Mexico's Supreme Court Thursday held two top government officials and the former Sonora governor partly accountable.
The Supreme Court said its investigation found serious dereliction of duty on the part of Transport and Communications Secretary Juan Molinar, Social Security Institute director Daniel Karam and former governor Eduardo Bours.
It said the officials were "responsible for the welfare of the children... and should have implemented policies that would have prevented the daycare centers from operating without prior compliance with all (legal) requirements." Forty-nine children perished and dozens more were badly burned when the ABC daycare center in northern Hermosillo, Sonora, burned down on July 5, 2009.
Initial investigations showed that the fire began when an air conditioning system overheated in an adjacent building, officials said.
President Felipe Calderon this week met with the parents of some of the victims and announced a national day of mourning on Saturday, the anniversary of the fire.
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