News From Bucharest Concerning Children

The laws that Romania has put in place concerning international adoption and foreign agencies adding the children is starting to take a toll. The new child protection laws are more harmful than helpful. Here are two recent stories:

New Born in Garbage Dumpster

Sunday, May 15, a person from Galati made a grizzly discovery. In a garbage container in acommercial zone of the Micro 17 district, the body of a new born was discovered in a plastic bag. The municipal police were alerted. The body was transported to Forensic Medicine, but because of the advanced condition of putrification (decay), the forensic examiner was not able to determine the cause of death.

Tests were collected to make a more complete analysis, findings of the tests being sent to the Institute of Forensic Medicine "Mina Minovici". A team from the Service of Criminal Investigations from the Police County Inspector Bureau is investigating to determine the circumstances of how the newborn's body got into the container. Investigators must wait for the results of the anlysis in order to see if the fetus had or had not been viable (could or could not have survived).

INDIFFERENT PARENTS?

Gabriel Bolocan, the little boy found Saturday (May 14) in the outdoor market in the Micro 17 district, remains at the Emergency Receiving Center "Irene and Stuart" on Radu Negru Street in Galati. From Saturday until today (Wednesday May 18) not one person has sought the little boy at the Center, no one has called the Child Protection Services, no one has even called one sector of Police. "This fact worries us," delcared Tania Calcan, spokesperson for the bureau of DGASPC (I assume this is the child protection services). "How is it possible that parents aren't looking for this little boy after all this time? In the event that we aren't able to track down the family, we will institute an emergency measure of placement for Gabriel with a maternal assistent," said Tania Calcan.

We remind you, the little boy has brown hair, hazel eyes and is about 3 1/2 years old, and when he was found he was dressed in clean clothes. The opinion of the inspector at Child Protection services is that Gabriel is from a well-organized family.