Romania requests data on child abused by Spanish adoptive parents
Alecs Iancu
The Romanian Office for Adoptions (ORA) will contact Spanish authorities
to clarify the situation of a child adopted from Romania in 2001 who
ended up in a coma in hospital after he was beaten by his adoptive
parents, the head of the office said.
State secretary Theodora Bertzi said this is not the first time the boy
needed medical assistance following mistreatment by his adoptive
parents. However, in spite of the situation, the child was not taken
into the custody of Spanish social services, which were in charge of
monitoring the adopted child.
"The second post-adoption report sent to Romanian authorities shows that
the boy was found with bruises and that he was even hospitalized,
requiring recovery treatment and his adoptive mother said at the time
that he had fallen out of his bed," Bertzi said....
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