The Canarian Police has arrested three people and carried out on Tuesday morning a raid on a reception center for migrant minors managed by the company Quorum Social 77 in Tenerife. This same company has seen centers closed in Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura as part of a police investigation.
The detainees are former workers of the center and more arrests are not ruled out while the investigation remains open, inform sources from the Ministry of Presidency, Public Administrations, Justice and Security.
The proceeding, which is under summary secrecy, is part of the same operation directed by the Court of Violence against Childhood and Adolescence of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Between May and July 2025, its head ordered the closure of a center that served 45 immigrant minors in Santa Brígida due to mistreatment, and another in Arinaga with 148 boys, as well as the entity's headquarters in Las Palmas; and last November the Canarian Police registered another center for unaccompanied minors in Puerto del Rosario and the deputy director and a worker were arrested.
A case that starts in September 2024
The general director of Protection of Children and Families of the Government of the Canary Islands, Sandra Rodríguez, has ratified, in statements to the media, that the cause dates back to September 2024 following an intervention by her department.
It has also pointed out that today's search at the center of Puerto de la Cruz stems from the complaints of several users in April 2025, and has added that the General Directorate "acted as appropriate before any act that could imply child abuse, communicating it to the judicial authority for investigation".
Additionally, a request was made to the company to remove two people from direct work with the minors, which it did immediately, although finally five other employees were dismissed.
Rodríguez has indicated that Quorum Social 77 has not communicated to him/her the closure of the center in Puerto de la Cruz, where there are currently around 130 migrant minors housed, nor that of the one that was registered in Fuerteventura in its day.
It has detailed that some of the boys have confirmed during the record that those alleged mistreatments occurred when the workers who have been removed were at the center, and that at this moment it functions "correctly".
Asked about the possibility of removing Quorum Social 77 from the management of unaccompanied migrant minors' centers in the Canary Islands, she has stated "very clearly" that "any action that implies mistreatment or the violation -of rights- of a minor will be brought to the attention of whoever is appropriate for investigation."
And has added that "when there is a sentence we will see what happens, and as we advance and reorganize the centers after the migratory contingency, we will analyze situations".
In any case, the general director has indicated that some of those centers managed by this company "function very well", with evaluations from the European Asylum Agency and from "certain inspections that are carried out continuously".