( CNN ) -- Mexican authorities are offering a $ 1.2 million ( 15 million pesos ) reward for information on 14 children who may have been taken from orphanages by child traffickers , according to a release from the attorney general of Mexico . The attorney general also is offering about $ 400,000 ( 5 million pesos ) in the search for three people in the `` Casitas del Sur '' case , a statement said Friday . The children disappeared in February 2009 from the Casitas del Sur orphanage in Mexico City and from homes in Nuevo Laredo and Quintana Roo , the statement said . CNN 's Claudia Dominguez contributed to this report .
Fourteen children disappeared at Mexican orphanages . The government has been accused of failing to protect the children, who are often kept in squalid conditions and forced into prostitution.