Director of detention center where 5 died will be charged

THE FORMER director of the Juvenile Detention Center where five teenagers were burned to death, will be charged following a Supreme Court reversal of a lower court decision to annul the investigation.

Iris Cedeno who was director of the Tocumen Center for Juvenile Enforcement was accused along with 11 others for the deaths of five children in the center on January 9, 2011, after a fire reports La Prensa

TV networks broadcast film of police guards yelling “burn, burn” as the inmates trapped in a cell. reached out of a window and screamed for help and of firemen being held back from tackling the flames.
The Second Court decision to annul charges against Cedeno was greeted with protests by civil rights groups.