A child exploitation scandal has been uncovered in the United States. more than 100 children between the ages of 13 and 16 and of Guatemalan origin were exploited in 13 slaughterhouses in eight states, cleaning equipment and rooms, performing adult jobs, as has uncovered the ‘NBC’.

A dangerous work that implies the use of chemical products to disinfect and that in some cases has caused them skin burns to many of them. In addition, they had night shift to go to school at daytime.

The managers of the company that hired them were aware of the exploitation of children in the company.

The US Department of Labor has found that the PSSI companya subcontractor of these meat factories, offered work for minors to clean the facility.

The case, they say, is a scandal. One of the Labor Department officials says that she had never seen “child labor violations to this extent” before, and “just the large number of children who were working” is striking.

For these facts the company, dedicated to food safety and sanitation of food plants, has been sanctioned with a fine of 1.5 million dollars.

The company that has complaints of child labor since 2016, he defends himself. It assures in a statement its strong commitment to zero tolerance to hire people under 18 years of age. Now it is being investigated whether the children, mostly undocumented migrants, were part of a human trafficking network.