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Mexico declares group home owner mentally unfit

By Eduardo Castillo
Published July 22, 2014 1:10am ET
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Mexico declares group home owner mentally unfit
In this Thursday, July 17, 2014 photo, boys watch television in their room at The Great Family group home, in Zamora, Mexico. For more than six decades, poor parents struggling to support their children or raise troubled youths sent them to the group home in western Mexico run by a woman who gained a reputation as a secular saint. On July 15, heavily armed federal police and soldiers raided the home and arrested nine caretakers, including the 79-year-old woman known as Mama Rosa. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) | Rebecca Blackwell

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The owner of a group home raided last week is mentally unfit to face allegations that she frequently hit children living in the shelter, Mexico’s top federal prosecutor said Monday.

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