Search Intensifies for Missing Teen in Barcelona After Family Outing

The minor has been living in the Font Fregona minor center for one year and three months, and went out this weekend to spend time with her mother and younger brother. "We spent Friday evening in Barcelona and on Saturday we walked on Las Ramblas. We stopped at El Corte Inglés to go to the bathroom, but she didn’t want to go back to the center, she was terrified and, by mistake, she slipped away from us," explains her mother, Sara Amir, to Crónica Global.

The teenager, 1.65 meters tall, with brown eyes and curly hair, was wearing black pants and a red Moroccan team sweatshirt at the time of her disappearance and had no money or identity documents on her. Her mother, without news of her since February 11 when she disappeared in Plaza Cataluña, has launched an SOS to locate her. The young woman would have been spotted in the El Raval neighborhood (Barcelona), according to a witness.

"I just want Nancy to know that she won’t be going back to that center," says Sara Amir, who confides that her daughter was terrified at the idea of returning there and had even begged her all day on Saturday not to take her back, because at the center, she said, "they make the minors work several hours a day and give them cold food... We have a lot of problems, because they don’t even let us talk without an assistant following the conversation."

Nancy assures that her daughter will no longer return to the center and has already made it known to the authorities. "I left my daughter there because she was doing better, but I’m not going to let her live in terror. In fact, just look on the Internet at the number of complaints from former residents and workers of the center denouncing cases of physical and psychological abuse," she explains. For its part, the center rejects all these accusations, wishing that the minor be found quickly. The Ibiza Council, for its part, has committed to looking into Nancy’s case.