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Police stop Roma group from abducting 11-year-old mother and baby from hospital

Tue, Oct 27 2009 12:05 CET byNick Iliev 1879 Views 10 Comments
Police stop Roma group from abducting 11-year-old mother and baby from hospital

Photo: Julia Lazarova

Bulgarian Roma from the town of Sliven stormed a hospital in an attempt to snatch an 11-year-old Roma mother who recently gave birth to a baby girl. Reportedly, the group wanted to take the girl to her home.

Hospital staff immediately alerted the police, who prevented the attempt, Dnevnik daily reported on October 27 2009.

Plans had been for the 11-year-old to marry the baby's 19-year-old father on October 23. However, Sliven police opened a docket against him for having sex with a minor.

Meanwhile, Sliven Municipality's child protection branch has said that the girl will have to remain in care until her parents return from Spain.

The 11-year-old is to date the youngest mother who gave birth successfully in the MBAL Hospital in Sliven. Both the mother and the baby girl reportedly are in excellent health.

"Both the mother's parents, and the child's father will have to sign the required documentation associated with the appropriate welfare institutions which will be granted access to and supervision of the child. Only when this is done, (the mother) and her baby can leave MBAL," the child protection office said.

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Anonymous*******Wed, Oct 28 2009 22:23 CET

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Anonymous vanko Wed, Oct 28 2009 16:31 CET
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Stefcho you are wrong there are not 2 laws in Bulgaria its just the police tend to ignore gypsies or pretend they dont exist. Even the town halls especially in Sliven would rather the ghettos didnt exist and make them no go areas outside local law and order. If they made a presence and used sticks etc they would soon reinstate control

Anonymous Stefcho Wed, Oct 28 2009 13:24 CET
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What bothers me the most is that the police and social service do treat the roma with kit gloves because if you piss off one of theml you piss off the whole community of them and then they act like animals and the police won't stop it because they are not able to do their jobs in a way that would prevent such an attempt to invade a hospital, even when they are upset on the streets and gather in mass groups and start to destroy things, the police are limited as to what they can do to them to stop them from acting like animals. If a group like this it the states did this, they would be feeling the blows of a stick across their backs and tear gas in there eyes and they would think twice before starting this kind of trouble again. They are allowed to run wild in Bulgaria and I don't blame the police, the laws need to be changed to allow the police to do there jobs in a way that would make these people think twice before acting like the animals they are, they need to remember the laws pertain to them just as they do to every other Bulgarian and respect them.

Anonymous Vanko Wed, Oct 28 2009 13:11 CET
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Forgot to mention a "Rom:" wedding is not a legal contract. Basically the 2 just live together and say they are married that makes them man and wife. If wife gets pregnant maybe a civil marriage will take place. If she doesnt then the male can leave and chose another partner and repeat process

Anonymous vanko Wed, Oct 28 2009 13:06 CET
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Minor I 100% agree with you but Rom are always treated with kid gloves so as not to upset the pc's in Brussels. NGO's make a lot of money out of them 3 or 4 years ago there was a woman from same area (Sliven) who at 24 was celebrating the birth of her granddaughter - work out the math!Nothing happened then to the males and nothing will now it never does.

Anonymous Minor Wed, Oct 28 2009 11:13 CET
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Hello, Steve? If you had an 11 year old would you want her to have a baby at that age? Remember, she's 11 now, how old was she when she got pregnant?

In most countries the father would be in jail for statutory rape and rightly so. There is a name for people who have sex with 10 and 11 year olds--pedophiles.

Anonymous Not only BG Tue, Oct 27 2009 21:18 CET
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"Imprisoning" of minor would happen in other countries too. That's called social service. 11 years old getting married with 19 and getting baby needs some supervising for sure. It's clear that her parents didn't do their job very well.

Anonymous Steve Tue, Oct 27 2009 20:52 CET
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So the state is imprisoning the girl. Sounds like a good reason to avoid hospitals there.

Anonymous*******Tue, Oct 27 2009 15:00 CET

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Anonymous Cosmos Tue, Oct 27 2009 14:57 CET
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Bloody disgrace 11 yrs old worse than animals.

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