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C.3 Procedures for the adoption of the Ramírez brothers
transferred to another children’s home, but this suggestion is rejected. She also demanded to know whether or not this
court will issue “abandonments” (evidence file, folios 4171 to 4179).
Cf. Order of the Judicial Coordinator of the Juvenile Jurisdiction of August 3, 1998 (evidence file, folios 4160 and
4161).
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Cf. Ruling of the Juvenile Trial Court of Mixco of September 10, 1998 (evidence file, folios 4146 and 4147). The
judge’s excuses and the brief accompanying them record that the legal counsel of Niños de Guatemala became annoyed,
“fumed, raised her voice and accused the undersigned of negligence and intransigence”; she asked the judge “whether
there was an order not to issue abandonments and what that court’s policy was, because she did not understand how it
had not issued abandonments for such a long time, and that the judges should understand that the only way to maintain
the children’s homes was by adoptions” (evidence file, folios 4147, 4150 and 4151).
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Cf. Order of the Judicial Coordinator of the Juvenile Jurisdiction of October 1, 1998 (evidence file, folio 4139).
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Ruling of the Juvenile Trial Court of Escuintla of December 11, 1998 (evidence file, folio 4129).
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Cf. Report of the President of Niños de Guatemala of December 31, 1998 (evidence file, folio 4639).
Cf. Report of the Attorney General’s Office of May 8, 1998 (evidence file, folios 4502 and 4503) and adoption
papers of June 2, 1998, with regard to J.R. (evidence file, folio 115).
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Cf. Decision of the Attorney General’s Office of May 11, 1998 (evidence file, folios 4505 to 4507); Order of the
Family Trial Court of the department of Sacatepéquez of May 26, 1998, with regard to Osmín Tobar Ramírez (evidence
file, folios 6576 to 6579); statement by Osmín Tobar Ramírez during the public hearing held before this Court, and
adoption papers of June 2, 1998, with regard to Osmín Tobar Ramírez (evidence file, folio 123).
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Cf. Adoption papers of June 2, 1998, with regard to Osmín Tobar Ramírez (evidence file, folios 123 to 128), and
adoption papers of June 2, 1998, with regard to J.R. (evidence file, folios 115 and 119).
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Cf. Decision of the Attorney General’s Office of May 11, 1998, with regard to Osmín Tobar Ramírez (evidence file,
folios 4505 to 4507); Decision of the Attorney General’s Office General of May 8, 1998, with regard to J.R. (evidence file,
folios 4502 and 4503), and report provided by an assistant agent of the Juvenile Department of the Attorney General’s
Office on May 5, 1998 (evidence file, folios 4508 and 4509).
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Cf. Decision of the Attorney General’s Office of May 8, 1998 (evidence file, folios 4502 and 4503), and Report of the
auxiliary agent of the Juvenile Department of the Attorney General’s Office of May 5, 1998 (evidence file, folios 4508 and
4509), and Report of the Attorney General’s Office of May 11, 1998 (evidence file, folios 4505 to 4507). Both reports
were based on a report of the auxiliary agent of the Juvenile Department of the Attorney General’s Office on May 5,
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