CHILD EXPORT TO ITALY?

The Hungarian Service for the Protection of Children – to prepare a process of adoptation later – has sent children in state orphanage to Italy for a summer holiday. This has been reported to Magyar Nemzet by foster parents of children under age.

The state organization has recognized the fact of holidays in Italy but it claims no pressure was used on children. The National Association of Families with Many Children turns to the ombudsman of citizens’ rights asking him to take measures in the case. The psychologists of the Service have allegedly promised the children they could come home earlier from the one month long holiday if they had problems with the host family. The children have been also told they could be adopted if there was a mutual sympathy with the family. The children could not phone home and could not return earlier though several of them expressed their wish to do so. One of the children was even brutalized by a drunken head of the family.

Translated by Péter Szentmihályi