An illegal basement creche in Amadora, outside Lisbon, obliged children to go to the lavatory in buckets as the only usable toilet was in a street-level former hair salon which would have ‘given the game away’.
Police raided the creche this week, discovering 16 children from the ages of 3 months to 10 years old.
The youngsters had foam mattresses to sleep on, and conditions generally were described as “degrading”.
Parents are said to have paid €60 a month to leave their children in the care of a woman who told reporters she will go on caring for children – albeit in a different location now – as the parents need her service.
