Tomorrow Spain's state will 'cancel' a young woman it already destroyed years ago
Timeline of the Noelia Castillo case: the Spanish state took her into care, she was raped in a facility for unaccompanied minors, left paraplegic, and now it grants her euthanasia.
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The double death of Noelia Castillo: the state that failed to protect her and then 'cancelled' her
Tomorrow, the Spanish state will carry out the euthanasia of Noelia Castillo, a 25-year-old whose life was wrecked by the very institutions now deciding her death. The timeline is chilling: custody withdrawn due to poverty, placement in a facility for unaccompanied foreign minors (MENAs) that cost 10,000 euros a month per head, gang rape, a suicide attempt, paraplegia and, finally, the official 'solution': euthanasia. This is not an isolated case, but the tip of the iceberg of a system that takes children away from vulnerable families, abandons them to their fate and, when the damage is beyond repair, washes its hands of it.
The withdrawal of custody: the first failure
Noelia was separated from her parents because they lacked financial means. A decision that, instead of protecting her, made her an easy target. State-run children's homes are an opaque business: the cost per unaccompanied minor exceeds 10,000 euros a month, with recurring reports of abuse and lack of control. In one of these 'care institutions', the young woman was raped by a group of foreign minors. There were no defendants, no trial, no front pages. The media silence stands in stark contrast to the noise generated by other sensual assault cases.
The right to die or the state's alibi
After the suicide attempt that left her paraplegic on 4 October 2022, Noelia spent years bedridden with severe depression. She requested euthanasia, granted under the 2021 law. But the ethical debate is fierce: can a person with a history of trauma and depressive symptoms make an irreversible decision? The state, which had a duty of care, chose the easy way out. Let us remember that the Constitutional Court once ordered that prisoners on hunger strike be fed intravenously, arguing that the right to life does not include the right to die. Today, the same institution looks the other way.
A failed state
The Noelia case exposes the contradictions of a system that spends fortunes housing unaccompanied minors (10,000 euros a month) while neglecting its own citizens. One that allows a young woman to be raped in a state-run care home with no one held accountable. And that, in the end, offers her death as the only way out. The Bioethics Committee and the CGPJ (Spain's judicial governing body) already warned against the euthanasia law in cases like this, but the political agenda carried more weight. The result: one more broken doll of the welfare state.
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Tomorrow, the Spanish state will carry out the euthanasia of Noelia Castillo, a 25-year-old whose life was wrecked by the very institutions now deciding her death. The timeline is chilling: custody withdrawn due to poverty, placement in a facility for unaccompanied foreign minors (MENAs) that cost 10,000 euros a month per head, gang rape, a suicide attempt, paraplegia and, finally, the official 'solution': euthanasia. This is not an isolated case, but the tip of the iceberg of a system that takes children away from vulnerable families, abandons them to their fate and, when the damage is beyond repair, washes its hands of it.
The withdrawal of custody: the first failure
Noelia was separated from her parents because they lacked financial means. A decision that, instead of protecting her, made her an easy target. State-run children's homes are an opaque business: the cost per unaccompanied minor exceeds 10,000 euros a month, with recurring reports of abuse and lack of control. In one of these 'care institutions', the young woman was raped by a group of foreign minors. There were no defendants, no trial, no front pages. The media silence stands in stark contrast to the noise generated by other sensual assault cases.
The right to die or the state's alibi
After the suicide attempt that left her paraplegic on 4 October 2022, Noelia spent years bedridden with severe depression. She requested euthanasia, granted under the 2021 law. But the ethical debate is fierce: can a person with a history of trauma and depressive symptoms make an irreversible decision? The state, which had a duty of care, chose the easy way out. Let us remember that the Constitutional Court once ordered that prisoners on hunger strike be fed intravenously, arguing that the right to life does not include the right to die. Today, the same institution looks the other way.
A failed state
The Noelia case exposes the contradictions of a system that spends fortunes housing unaccompanied minors (10,000 euros a month) while neglecting its own citizens. One that allows a young woman to be raped in a state-run care home with no one held accountable. And that, in the end, offers her death as the only way out. The Bioethics Committee and the CGPJ (Spain's judicial governing body) already warned against the euthanasia law in cases like this, but the political agenda carried more weight. The result: one more broken doll of the welfare state.
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