Two tragedies marked this week for Puerto Rico’s children and youth. In both cases, the state failed to act in time. In Aibonito, Anthonieska Avilés was sentenced to 38 years, 6 months and 1 day in prison for the murder of Gabriela Nicole Pratts Rosario, who was only 16, just days after Anthonieska’s mother received a 102-year sentence in the same case. In Arroyo, 16-year-old Yadiel Torrales Lazú was found shot after escaping from a foster home in Miramar. His death exposed something even more troubling: the government does not know the whereabouts of 39 children in state custody, among a total of 160 reported disappearances this year alone.