Quito Ecuador: 17 rescued from clandestine clinic

Posted on January 20, 2014 • Filed under: Crime, Ecuador, Latin America Health

laht.com reported that authorities on Thursday rescued 17 people who had been held at a clandestine clinic where patients were subjected to electroshock and even rape, the Ecuadorian Attorney General’s Office said. Among the people freed is a minor, who said that he “was tortured with electricity to ‘heal’ his behavior problem,” the AG’s office said on Twitter. The facility in question is the Union and Hope Clinic in Hacienda Pisuli, north of Quito, the daily El Telegrafo reported.
Also held at the clinic, which authorities raided Thursday morning, could possibly have been a young man named David Romo, who disappeared on May 16 in Quito, the AG’s office said. Read Article

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