statistical trends observed indicate that the actual number of children in detention was significantly higher than the one able to report. The ages of children observed in detention is varied, from infancy through adulthood. The vast majority of minors in detention are adolescent boys aged 16, followed in descending percentages by boys aged 15 and 17 (with an insignificant rate difference), 13 and 14 (in nearly identical rates), and boys 12 years of age and below with an alarming rate of 4, 20 % . Last are boys on the verge of adulthood, within a few months or days of their 18th birthday10. Unaccompanied female minors comprise only 0, 87% of the minor detainee population, and are mostly teenagers in between 16-1411 years of age. It should be noted that there is a high incidence of inaccuracy in the exact ages reported for children in detention. Many of the children in the detention facility reported significant discrepancies between their actual and registered ages, being both obviously older and younger that the age noted down by authorities. In most cases, minors registered 13 or 14 are, according to their declarations, 12 and 13 respectively, while on the other hand teenagers often stated they were adults in order to be released sooner. Finally, there is the case of minors that ± according to the exact birth date attributed to them by the authorities ± came of age while in detention. Children registered as born on or before 01-01-1994 are, since 01-01-2012, no longer considered minors. It so happened that in these particular cases the detainees were non-deportable nationalities, but nonetheless - although they were no longer waiting to be transferred to a reception centre they were ³IRUJRWWHQ´ LQ GHWHQWLRQ. They were released from detention in early March 2011, 2 months after reaching official adulthood. 10 Years of birth in percentages : years 2008-2000 : 1,75 %, 1999 : 2,44%, 1998 : 6,46%, 1997 : 6,11 %, 1996 : 24,30 %, 1995 : 35,83 %, 1994 : 21,67 %, 1993 (during 2011) : 1,22 %. 11 The above mentioned percentages serve as indicators. They were extracted from the official accessible registrations of 572 children (see footnote no. 5) 6