The National Police has arrested a man in Palma accused of allegedly mistreating his minor children after one of the children asked for help from their school and recounted the situation they were experiencing at home.

A judge has remanded a 59-year-old man in custody after he was arrested by the Civil Guard on March 18 in Maria de la Salut, accused of abusing and controlling his wife and three minor children. According to police sources on Wednesday, a social worker from the Maria de la Salut Town Hall alerted them on March 18 that a woman she was assisting was suffering serious abuse at the hands of her husband. The municipal worker explained that the abuse was not only directed at the wife, but that the three minor children were also victims. Following this report, and after taking a statement from the victim, a Civil Guard patrol, accompanied by the Local Police, went to the family home that same afternoon and arrested the 59-year-old man. The Civil Guard arrested him on charges of domestic abuse, and he was subsequently remanded in custody after appearing before a judge. Social services took charge of the mother and children, who have been transferred to a shelter.

Lolita arrived at Marta Gallego's veterinary clinic in Inca three years ago. Malnourished, with shattered joints from living crammed into a cage, blind in one eye and with very little vision in the other. The initial diagnosis was untreated leishmaniasis and polyarthritis. A man had rescued the Chihuahua from a sack in a dumpster. He thought it was a litter of kittens. "I called the police and reported the owner. He had thrown it in the manure, chip and all," Gallego recalls. When she went to trial, she asked the judge to consider the animal's situation in the sentence. "She just told me, 'Nothing is planned here.' I thought, how could that be, since it was the subject of the trial?" Marta remained silent. No one has reimbursed her for the more than 3,000 euros spent on Lolita, officially in the name of her abuser, who was sentenced to three months in prison. With no prior convictions, he is not required to serve time.

The National Police have arrested a woman and a man in Manacor accused of abusing the woman's minor daughter in a case of ongoing domestic violence. The young girl went to the police station last Friday after leaving school to report repeated physical abuse, which she said she suffered at the hands of both her mother and her mother's partner. During her statement, she showed an officer from the Family and Women's Unit (UFAM) several bruises that, according to her testimony, corresponded to assaults she had suffered days earlier. According to the police investigation, the girl had only shared the events with her closest family and friends, who encouraged her to file a report after realizing that the episodes of violence were occurring on a weekly basis. Hours later, the two adults went to the police station to report that the young girl had not returned home after school. Given this situation and the information gathered previously, the UFAM officers arrested both as suspected perpetrators of domestic abuse. After appearing before a judge, the court issued a restraining order between the two detainees and the minor to ensure her protection.

The National Police have arrested a man for allegedly leaving his elderly and vulnerable mother unattended in their Manacor home without food in the refrigerator and surrounded by animal feces. The investigation began after a woman who regularly visited the woman's home to check on her well-being alerted the institution that manages care services about the elderly woman's poor condition.