• Courts The Prosecutor's Office dissociates itself from the decision of the Generalitat to remove the guardianship of the children to the victim of Oltra's ex

On March 14, Teresa saw her fears fulfilled. The young woman who was once a child under the guardianship of the Generalitat – and who spent years in juvenile centers where she was abused – saw that day how her children also passed into the hands of the Valencian Administration. The vicious circle. "I don't want them to take away my children and go through the same thing I do," he confessed some time ago.

The truth is that this fear haunted her since the case that keeps the former Valencian vice president Mónica Oltra and 15 officials and advisors of the Ministry of Equality taken shape a year ago, for an alleged cover-up of the sexual abuse for which Oltra's ex-husband was convicted when he was Teresa's tutor. Then, the young woman, 20 years old and still only one son, openly acknowledged her lack of resources. He had worked with his former receptionist partner at the Hospital de Torrevieja, but at the end of the health concession, his contract was not renewed.

The two young men returned to Valencia to be welcomed in the homes of relatives, who ended up denying them help to the point of being forced to sleep even in portals. With that unstable life, and pregnant with the second child, the young woman already received some notice from Social Services that she could lose guardianship of her children if she could not get her life back on track.

The problem, as confirmed from his environment, is that the lack of a home to register and the aid of more than 2,000 euros he received through a crowdfunding campaign he organized in April last year, coinciding with the request for imputation of Mónica Oltra, prevented him from accessing the Valencian Inclusion Income . Teresa has filed a patrimonial claim of 240,000 euros against the Generalitat for having been a victim of abuse in a juvenile center, but until the Supreme Court does not rule on the conviction of Ramírez Icardi and there is a firm sentence, this process will not advance.

Without a job, neither she nor her boyfriend at the time, homeless, with an 18-month-old baby and in an advanced state of gestation, on June 17, 2022, five days before the then vice president announced her resignation and left politics, Equality informed the Juvenile Section of the Prosecutor's Office that it was initiating a file for the "possible lack of protection" of Teresa's eldest son. The visit to a health center in Paterna with a high fever and the suspicion that he could have been in contact with drugs that a relative of the young woman aired there ignited the alerts.

The Public Prosecutor's Office incorporated this "communication" into file 347/2008 of the young woman, but reminded the Ministry that any measure adopted on guardianship corresponded to the Generalitat. The Administration was still reluctant to take action on the matter.

On July 12, Teresa gives birth to her second child and, at the same La Fe hospital, is subjected to a urine test to detect cocaine, methadone, amphetamines, opiates, ecstasy and methamphetamines. The result was negative in all cases. But, when I left the hospital, the harsh reality returned. Oltra's successor, Aitana Mas, with the file of lack of protection open, wanted to have all the possible reports before Social Services made a decision. Two months in which we tried to make a very complex follow-up.

Teresa first settled in the Valencian town of Catadau at the house of some friends with the intention of registering and applying for the Inclusion Income. He initiated the procedures but achieved neither one thing nor the other. Then he went to the home of his paternal grandmother, now deceased, in Benimàmet, a hamlet of Valencia, where he resumed the paperwork.

It was then that a Family Intervention Plan began to be developed. However, it could not be concluded because the relatives refused to allow her to live there with the father of her children. Two months had passed and Equality was hiding behind the lack of reports to close or execute the file.

The couple and the two children, together with a controversial friend, wandered around Gilet and occupied warehouses and a villa in the Sagunto area throughout the month of August, until that friend filed a complaint with the Civil Guard for alleged threats from Teresa's partner and neglect of minors. Teresa hid with her children and, when she was located, the agents found that the children lived in acceptable conditions.

The young woman settled in an aunt's house and in November found work as a cleaner. She had separated from her partner, but he cared for the 20- and five-month-old babies while she went to work. Until this fragile balance was blown up again just two months ago.

In January of this year, the father of the children was arrested after the baby tested positive for cocaine, who had to be hospitalized for a small fainting. However, the fact that he was not even registered in the Civil Registry led the center to activate the protocol for possible neglect of the child, who consequently had to be tested for drugs.

The positive mobilized the National Police and Social Services who, however, found Teresa's "good willingness" to take care of the children again. However, the abandonment of minors in recent weeks again led to the intervention of the Civil Guard after receiving a complaint about the state of the children, one of whom has been sick. It was the last chance given by Social Services to Teresa, who has lost even her children. A host family has taken care of the two children.

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