MEXICO.- It's been 6 years since the tragic fire occurred at ABC's Daycare Center, a outsourced daycare from the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) in Hermosillo, Sonora, where children between 5 months and five years of age were taken care of.

The fire, which started in a Government warehouse near the daycare facilities, spread until it reached the area where newly borns and children who could barely talk were waiting for their parents to pick them up.

On that day, 49 children died either at the scene, or in the hospital and over 70 were injured.

Although several officials were accounted as responsible, none of them were prosecuted. Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice absolved from any crime every IMSS official that was involved in the incident.

The negligence of the IMSS employers has yet to be punished, which is why the parents of victims keep on fighting so that the case of ABC's Daycare Center does not remain unpunished.

Today, as a way to commemorate this struggle, march and all types of protest are being prepared as a way to show solidarity. Six years of grieving must be payed due. Anyone who wasn't able to attend the mobilizations in Hermosillo and Mexico City, can still contribute to the cause by signing an online petition that demands bringing the case back and leaving it at the hand of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.

"The ABC Daycare fire was no accident. This was the result of helplessness, corruption and government negligence" mentioned the petition which you can read by clicking here.

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