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Article

18 Nov 2010

Author:
Soledad Arréguez Manozzo, translated by Bernarda Porrati

Argentina: Child Working at the Age of 7 Pays with His Health

Ezequiel, the seven-year-old boy who had been enslaved by the poultry farm, Nuestra Huella, passed away...On November 8th, La Alameda filed a complaint against Nuestra Huella company, owner of several agricultural farms, over the serious state of health of a seven-year-old boy...after having manipulated poisonous toxics for months...Furthermore, the complaint states that E.F. did not receive any kind of cancer treatment once the disease had been detected. The reason was that the company refused to do so...The complaint filed before the criminal justice requests an investigation, based on suspicion that the disease was “a consequence of the manipulation of agrochemicals, that was done without taking the required safety measures.”.