The National Police have arrested a minor as the alleged perpetrator of the stabbing that ended the life of a 19-year-old youth on Sunday evening in Son Gotleu, in Palma. The victim died hours later at the hospital due to the severity of the wounds. Hours after his arrest, the juvenile court ordered the detainee's admission to a juvenile detention center where he will remain until the trial arrives.

The National Police arrested a man in Palma as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of exhibitionism after several witnesses claimed he had lowered his trousers and touched his genitals in front of several minors.

The Majorcan Institute of Social Affairs (IMAS) has launched five Specialized Teams for Intervention in Risk Situations (EEISR) with the aim of assisting children and adolescents who are in situations of mild or moderate risk and, whenever possible, avoiding their entry into the child protection system. The teams began to be implemented at the end of last year and, after a training period, started their activities during the first months of 2026. This Tuesday, the president of IMAS, Guillermo Sánchez, and the insular director of Social Services, Childhood and Family, Apol·lònia Socias, presented their functioning after more than half a year of operation.

The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, warned this Friday that it will be necessary to expand the Son Tous initial reception space to be able to attend to the unaccompanied migrant minors who continue to arrive in the Islands.

A two-year-old girl was seriously injured this Wednesday afternoon after suffering a drowning in the pool of a hotel in Magaluf, in the municipality of Calvià.

A 25-year-old dance teacher has been arrested in Mallorca accused of continuous sexual assaults on five students between 8 and 12 years old. This is how the Civil Guard explained it, which has not provided further details, as the investigation remains open to establish if there are more victims.

The Second Section of the Provincial Court of Balearic Islands has sentenced a man to two years in prison for sexually assaulting a minor in Palma. The Chamber has issued a judgment of conformity after the parties reached an agreement before the trial and the man admitted the accusations.

The Second Section of the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands concluded this Tuesday the trial against an accused of repeatedly raping his daughter in Mallorca. During Tuesday's proceedings, the examination of the minor, about six years old at the time of the events, was played, in which she stated that her father did "adult things" to her when they were alone at home.

More than half of fifth and sixth grade Primary students in the Balearic Islands have their own mobile phone. This is one of the main conclusions of the report Childhood, Adolescence and Digital Well-being in the Balearic Islands, which also reveals that one in three minors has seen pornography online and that 14.1% show clear symptoms of emotional distress.

The accused of raping a minor of 14 years in Palma has denied the facts and stated that it was the girl who "offered herself too much" and who "wanted something". The trial in the First Section of the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands continued this Wednesday with the declaration of the accused, after the minor testified behind closed doors on Tuesday.

The National Police have arrested a man and a woman in Palma, allegedly accused of assaulting and mistreating their two minor children. The arrests took place last Thursday following an investigation opened after a report made by the couple's eldest daughter while she was being treated at a hospital.

The Franz Weber Foundation has criticized the “inaction” of the Balearic Office for Childhood and Adolescence (OBIA) regarding promotions aimed at minors to attend bullfights planned in Inca and Muro.

The case of Miquel Roldán has placed the educational system in front of a conflict as delicate as it is difficult to resolve. The teacher, convicted of harassing a minor, returned to practice after serving the sentence imposed by Justice. And it is precisely in this fact where the contradiction appears that today shakes a public school in Palma, worries families and leaves the Ministry of Education with no room for maneuver. Legally, Roldán can return to teaching and be the tutor of the group of children assigned to him. Socially, a significant part of the educational community considers it incomprehensible that this is possible.

The National Police have arrested a man in Ibiza accused of attempting to kidnap a minor as she left a social services center. The incident occurred on Thursday afternoon when the suspect approached the young girl on the street and invited her to his vehicle with the promise of candy. When the girl refused and tried to run away, the man grabbed her forearm, insisting that she go with him and not tell anyone, according to the Balearic Islands Police Headquarters. The girl managed to break free and take refuge inside a supermarket, where she asked for help from other shoppers. Some locals who were shopping, upon learning what had happened, went out to look for the suspect. Although the man tried to flee and a struggle ensued, the shoppers ultimately managed to detain him until the police arrived. Shortly after, the National Police arrived at the scene, provided assistance to the minor, and located her mother to ensure her safety. The man, a Spanish national, was arrested as the suspected perpetrator of unlawful detention. Subsequently, the judicial authority issued him a restraining order prohibiting him from contacting the victim.

A man accepted a two-year prison sentence on Wednesday for raping a 14-year-old girl in Palma in 2020. The parties reached an agreement in the Second Section of the Provincial Court, and the convicted man will not go to prison on the condition that he does not commit any further offenses in the next three years. He will pay €7,500, of which he has already paid €3,500. The prosecution initially sought a nine-year prison sentence for the crime, but before the trial could take place, and thanks to this agreement, he will avoid prison time because he has no prior criminal record and the sentence is less than the minimum required for incarceration in these cases. Furthermore, the man is prohibited from approaching the victim for the next five years and has committed to paying the remaining compensation.

Around one hundred workers from the s'Estel Socio-educational Institute Foundation, which manages the Es Pinaret socio-educational center for minors in Mallorca, gathered this Tuesday in front of the center's management offices to demand payment of the hazardous and arduous work supplement, with a maximum amount of up to 385 euros per month. The action, supported by the STEI Intersindical union, comes after years of administrative gridlock and negotiations that have thus far yielded no satisfactory results. According to union representatives, the supplement has been planned for years but has never been implemented. Mateu Moyà, head of the public sector division of STEI, recalls that the issue was first raised in 2019, but "it came to nothing because no one on the committee dared to request its implementation for economic reasons." Subsequently, under the coalition government, negotiations were "much more difficult and encountered resistance from the administration, which in many cases refused to even negotiate the supplement." “We took them to the inspection,” Moyà recalls. With the change of government, he says, the situation has improved: “We were told that the issue was pending and that it would be analyzed,” and in December 2024 the union presented a new proposal that allowed for more advanced negotiations to begin. Initially, the Administration offered up to 250 euros, but now an amount of up to 385 euros has been reached.

"Tons of young people wow"That's how one of them referred to it." scout Jeffrey Epstein's preferred (top model selector) to the young women he had recruited for one of the many stays they were organizing in Ibiza some fifteen years ago. He wrote this in an email sent in 2010, in which photo shoots with high-profile models were apparently being arranged. The constant references to age and the comments in the messages between the American magnate—who committed suicide in 2019 in prison in New York—and his associates confirm that Ibiza played a key role in the network of influence and international business spaces, with the backdrop of the company of young women, always identified girls in communications.

The National Police are investigating a teacher in Palma for five alleged cases of harassment of underage students, after an initial complaint filed in late December opened an investigation that has led to the identification of five more potential victims of the same teacher. The investigation began following a complaint from a young woman who reported receiving persistent and repeated calls every day from a blocked number, many of them late at night. According to her account, the calls caused her anxiety and disrupted her daily life. Days later, the victim returned to the police to report that the phone harassment continued. In these subsequent calls, the alleged perpetrator asked if they would meet and told her he missed her. At the beginning of the year, the young woman confirmed that the calls were still coming, but this time from a visible phone number.

The Government views favorably the proposal of the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to prohibit access to social networks for minors under 16 years of ageAccording to a statement made this Tuesday by the Minister of Education and Universities, Antoni Vera, the government is committed to implementing a ban on mobile phones on screens in the Balearic Islands. Vera emphasized the importance of establishing clear mechanisms for the measure to be effectively applied in the islands. He stated that he was "in complete agreement" with the measure and reiterated the government's hope that the situation would not repeat itself, as with the mobile phone ban, which was left to regional regulations after its national approval, and which the Balearic Islands had ultimately implemented through a specific order. The minister explained that the government wants to see how the new legal proposal will be processed and implemented, as well as how it can be applied in the islands, stressing the importance of having clear mechanisms for its implementation within the territory.

She also highlighted other initiatives already implemented in the Balearic Islands along these lines, such as the ban on digital screens up to the fourth grade of primary school and the launch of an awareness campaign for families about the risks of the "harmful overuse" of digital devices, which will be rolled out in the coming months. Despite her positive assessment, Vera considered the announcement to be "just another smokescreen" by President Sánchez, since the People's Party had already submitted an amendment to the law on the protection of minors in digital environments to propose a similar ban. Sánchez made the announcement during his speech at the World Government Summit in Dubai, where he indicated that the government will approve the measure next week in the Council of Ministers. The proposal includes, among other things, requiring platforms to implement effective age verification systems and creating a tracking and tracing system to combat hateful and illegal content. It will also address potential legal violations by platforms such as Grok, TikTok, and Instagram.

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The initial reception center set up by the Consell de Mallorca in the former Son Tous barracks, which has been operational for two weeks, is now receiving its first unaccompanied migrant children. This was explained by the president of the Mallorcan Institute of Social Affairs (IMAS), Guillermo Sánchez, this Wednesday at the IMAS Governing Council meeting, according to a press release from the island institution.

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