The Abandonments continue in Romania

This is from the Romanian Newspaper "Romania Libera" from March 2, 2005. As an adoptive parent of a Romanian girl, it really gets me that International Adoption is currently shut down in Romania because of one person in the EU. Romania is trying to get in and corruption is the issue that is impeding entry. But since the international adoptions have been halted, stories like this are becoming more and more frequent. A further thing to note is that the Romanian Government also is preventing parents who cannot feed their children from taking them to the orphanages or other care facilites.


"A Macabre March 1 ('Martisor') at -10 degrees Celsius"
by Catalin Dumitrescu
It was a night with the kind of overwhelming cold that splits rocks. The thermometer at Podul Ros is stuck at -10C (15 degrees Fahrenheit). Just a few more hours to go until the Martisor celebration.
But outside on the cold cement stairs of an apartment building in the Dacia neighborhood in the city of Iasi one hears a weak whimper.
A ten day old baby girl, hunted down by the freezing cold and dressed only in a thin little suit and wrapped in a sheet, is found by an apartment owner who was looking for his cat that had wandered outside in the unrelenting cold.
This merciful man called the ambulance and the life of this little girl, abandoned by a being who probably has the name "mama", was saved. Said policeman Ducu Gavrila who found the child, "I was looking for my tomcat. It was so cold and a vicious wind was blowing. I was afraid that the cold would freeze my cat, even though he has a very thick coat of fur. I don't know who would have the heart to leave this little baby lying on the cement in this kind of weather. That person is a criminal."
The Saint Mary's Children's Hospital in Iasi managed to save the little girl and gave her the most precious Martisor present of all: LIFE. Dr. Tamara Rosu, spokesperson for the Saint Mary's Children's Hospital remarked, "This girl weighed 3 kilograms (about 6 pounds, 10 ounces) and was approximately 10 days old. It is likely that the mother was recently released from the maternity hospital since the umbilical cord wasn't healed yet."
The police, together with personnel from the Child Protection Services have begun an investigation to find the "mother without a soul" who abandoned her little child on the cement which was as cold as ice.