The tale of Noelia Castillo is one of those rare horror stories that stands out even amidst the grim grind of the daily news cycle. It’s the story of a girl who experienced untold suffering in her short life and who was ultimately failed – betrayed, you might more accurately say – by the system that was designed to help people like her.
But it was designed by a different people, a people who evidently knew better than the average Spanish civil servant of the 2020s. A people who knew that killing suffering Spaniards didn’t solve their problems, but eliminated them.