Abandoned Children of Bulgaria

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Eye opening documentary shown last night on BBC2, anyone know if and hwne this is being repeated?

Thanks

[juliacornwal]

I don't know when it's repeated, but I agree with you that it was eye opening. I found it extremely disturbing - some of those children looked like victims from the Nazi concentration camps, yet the director seemed quite convinced that everything was perfectly all right and she was doing her job. "I need a computer",went up her cry when half a dozen of the children in her charge were starving to death! Dear God, she shouldn't be in charge of a garden centre, let alone a children's home!
It's all very well to let these countries into the European Union , but to me that gives them the green light that their methods of dealing with the handicapped are acceptable. Sorry, but they should be excluded until proper checks have been made and proper facilites and procedures put into place.
But that poor little 13 year old girl who was mildly autistic and had evidently been cruelly dumped by her mother - she's haunted me all night. We used to shut girls up in asylums at the turn of the last century, for being pregnant outside marriage, and some of them weren't found and realised until they were in their 70s and 80s. What sort of life will she have, shut away for the rest of time with people who are vastly below her in intelligence, and she the only one who can read or write? What sort of unfeeling mother has she got, too?
Come on let's start policing the European Union and put a stop to this barbarism, quickly!

[bigmamma]

I was sat in tears and totally shocked by what I saw on my screen . I just couldn't believe that such neglect and cruelty could be going on in the 21st century . Those poor wee mites , I just can't grasp why those heavy built workers can't see the malnourished bodies and the lack of proper care and stimulation , and lack of proper hospital care , oh the list goes on !!! That poor young girl waiting for her mum , getting more crazed the longer she stayed there. That little girl with the broken leg , the tiny little blind boy too . I am getting upset just thinking about it .

[gina32]

it was on about 6 weeks ago and was discussed on here then but i cant find the thread

[homerbart]

Hi there - this programme has been on twice before on I think BBC3 - so I was surprised to see it on BBC2 - I actually thought it was going to be an updated version but it was a repeat.

Like yous all out there my heart goes to them all and I would dearly love to give a donation if I knew that it would go straight to the kids but alas we all know it doesn't get there. There were better looking people came out of the prison camps in WW2. All of the children needed hospital care and I also could not stop thinking about the girl who was mildly autistic. She actually was very clever but ended up rocking to and fro and my heart was breaking. Something needs to be done about these kids. They were all so sad and in great pain especially the would you believe she was 18 years old Vasky who had the broken leg. How she has survived for 18 years is beyond me. Is there anyone out there to help them. God bless them.

[juliacornwal]

Oh yes, there's someone out there to help them, the European Union - only of course they won't! Even closer to home there's the government of Bulgaria, but they quite evidently seem completely unconcerned, and what about The United Nations? If these children were found in a camp situation there'd be an outcry! It is disgraceful that this sort of abuse of children can go on openly in Europe and no one worries about it - crickey, where are our values for pity's sake?