Judicial punishment for two kids

It was four months ago when a massage parlor and several other addresses in Ankara were raided by police, rescuing minors who had been forced into prostitution. 

The mother of one minor told daily Hürriyet she found her 16-year-old daughter, who had run away from home, at a massage parlor. After the mother reunited with her daughter, she accused two of her daughter's girlfriends of dragging her daughter into prostitution and drugs. "One of them took her to the parlor, the other gave her drugs," she said. 

The above was in the news. The rest of the story is below. 

After the mother filed a complaint, the two minor girls were taken to the Ankara Police Department because they were witnesses. They had only a piece of grilled cheese sandwich for the whole day. They slept in the corridor at night. The next day, the department asked for an extension of the detention. Only then did they learn that they had been detained. 

After their second day at the police center, they were taken to the juvenile department, where officials said, "Why have they detained you for so long?" and handed over the children to their families. 

The two girls gave their statements to the prosecutor's office the next day. The prosecutor sent them to a criminal court of peace. The judge released the kids but put one of them on parole, meaning she is required to show up at the police station to sign three days a week. These two girls are now being tried on charges of human trafficking for the purposes of prostitution. This process is full of excessive mistakes. 

The first mistake is that all the procedures of minors should be conducted by the juvenile department, the juvenile police and the prosecutor. The reason for this is to ensure the child does...

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