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ROMANIAN CARE HOMES SCANDAL SPOTLIGHTS ABUSE DESCRIBED AS ‘INHUMANE AND
DEGRADING’

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In this image released on July 27, 2023 by the Center of Legal Resources
Romania, a malnourished child lies on an improvised bed in the basement of a
care home in in the village of Bardesti in the central Romanian Mures County.
The Centre for Legal Resources, or CLR, which conducted an unannounced
inspection of the home, found alarming levels of neglect and abuse, saying that,
on top of 23 residents inside the main building, seven more were found living in
appalling conditions in a dingy basement beneath. Four of the residents who had
severe disabilities, they said, were “lying on mattresses soiled with feces,
urine, and blood.” (Center of Legal Resources via AP)

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In this image released on July 27, 2023 by the the Center of Legal Resources
Romania, people sit in the basement of a care home in in the village of Bardesti
in the central Romanian Mures County. The Centre for Legal Resources, or CLR,
which conducted an unannounced inspection of the home, found alarming levels of
neglect and abuse, saying that, on top of 23 residents inside the main building,
seven more were found living in appalling conditions in a dingy basement
beneath. Four of the residents who had severe disabilities, they said, were
“lying on mattresses soiled with feces, urine, and blood.” (Center of Legal
Resources via AP)

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In this image released on July 27, 2023 by the the Center of Legal Resources
Romania, a bed is placed in a bathroom at a care home in in the village of
Bardesti in the central Romanian Mures County. The Centre for Legal Resources,
or CLR, which conducted an unannounced inspection of the home, found alarming
levels of neglect and abuse, saying that, on top of 23 residents inside the main
building, seven more were found living in appalling conditions in a dingy
basement beneath. Four of the residents who had severe disabilities, they said,
were “lying on mattresses soiled with feces, urine, and blood.” (Center of Legal
Resources via AP)

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In this image released on July 27, 2023 by the Center of Legal Resources
Romania, improvised beds are set up in the basement of a care home in the
village of Bardesti in the central Romanian Mures County. The Centre for Legal
Resources, or CLR, which conducted an unannounced inspection of the home, found
alarming levels of neglect and abuse, saying that, on top of 23 residents inside
the main building, seven more were found living in appalling conditions in a
dingy basement beneath. Four of the residents who had severe disabilities, they
said, were “lying on mattresses soiled with feces, urine, and blood.” (Center of
Legal Resources via AP)

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degrading’
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In this image released on July 27, 2023 by the Center of Legal Resources
Romania, a malnourished child lies on an improvised bed in the basement of a
care home in in the village of Bardesti in the central Romanian Mures County.
The Centre for Legal Resources, or CLR, which conducted an unannounced
inspection of the home, found alarming levels of neglect and abuse, saying that,
on top of 23 residents inside the main building, seven more were found living in
appalling conditions in a dingy basement beneath. Four of the residents who had
severe disabilities, they said, were “lying on mattresses soiled with feces,
urine, and blood.” (Center of Legal Resources via AP)

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In this image released on July 27, 2023 by the Center of Legal Resources
Romania, a malnourished child lies on an improvised bed in the basement of a
care home in in the village of Bardesti in the central Romanian Mures County.
The Centre for Legal Resources, or CLR, which conducted an unannounced
inspection of the home, found alarming levels of neglect and abuse, saying that,
on top of 23 residents inside the main building, seven more were found living in
appalling conditions in a dingy basement beneath. Four of the residents who had
severe disabilities, they said, were “lying on mattresses soiled with feces,
urine, and blood.” (Center of Legal Resources via AP)

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In this image released on July 27, 2023 by the the Center of Legal Resources
Romania, people sit in the basement of a care home in in the village of Bardesti
in the central Romanian Mures County. The Centre for Legal Resources, or CLR,
which conducted an unannounced inspection of the home, found alarming levels of
neglect and abuse, saying that, on top of 23 residents inside the main building,
seven more were found living in appalling conditions in a dingy basement
beneath. Four of the residents who had severe disabilities, they said, were
“lying on mattresses soiled with feces, urine, and blood.” (Center of Legal
Resources via AP)

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In this image released on July 27, 2023 by the the Center of Legal Resources
Romania, people sit in the basement of a care home in in the village of Bardesti
in the central Romanian Mures County. The Centre for Legal Resources, or CLR,
which conducted an unannounced inspection of the home, found alarming levels of
neglect and abuse, saying that, on top of 23 residents inside the main building,
seven more were found living in appalling conditions in a dingy basement
beneath. Four of the residents who had severe disabilities, they said, were
“lying on mattresses soiled with feces, urine, and blood.” (Center of Legal
Resources via AP)

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In this image released on July 27, 2023 by the the Center of Legal Resources
Romania, a bed is placed in a bathroom at a care home in in the village of
Bardesti in the central Romanian Mures County. The Centre for Legal Resources,
or CLR, which conducted an unannounced inspection of the home, found alarming
levels of neglect and abuse, saying that, on top of 23 residents inside the main
building, seven more were found living in appalling conditions in a dingy
basement beneath. Four of the residents who had severe disabilities, they said,
were “lying on mattresses soiled with feces, urine, and blood.” (Center of Legal
Resources via AP)

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In this image released on July 27, 2023 by the the Center of Legal Resources
Romania, a bed is placed in a bathroom at a care home in in the village of
Bardesti in the central Romanian Mures County. The Centre for Legal Resources,
or CLR, which conducted an unannounced inspection of the home, found alarming
levels of neglect and abuse, saying that, on top of 23 residents inside the main
building, seven more were found living in appalling conditions in a dingy
basement beneath. Four of the residents who had severe disabilities, they said,
were “lying on mattresses soiled with feces, urine, and blood.” (Center of Legal
Resources via AP)

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In this image released on July 27, 2023 by the Center of Legal Resources
Romania, improvised beds are set up in the basement of a care home in the
village of Bardesti in the central Romanian Mures County. The Centre for Legal
Resources, or CLR, which conducted an unannounced inspection of the home, found
alarming levels of neglect and abuse, saying that, on top of 23 residents inside
the main building, seven more were found living in appalling conditions in a
dingy basement beneath. Four of the residents who had severe disabilities, they
said, were “lying on mattresses soiled with feces, urine, and blood.” (Center of
Legal Resources via AP)

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In this image released on July 27, 2023 by the Center of Legal Resources
Romania, improvised beds are set up in the basement of a care home in the
village of Bardesti in the central Romanian Mures County. The Centre for Legal
Resources, or CLR, which conducted an unannounced inspection of the home, found
alarming levels of neglect and abuse, saying that, on top of 23 residents inside
the main building, seven more were found living in appalling conditions in a
dingy basement beneath. Four of the residents who had severe disabilities, they
said, were “lying on mattresses soiled with feces, urine, and blood.” (Center of
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Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Updated
7:53 AM GMT+2, August 10, 2023
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — After receiving distressed text messages from a young
man worried about the conditions his friend was living in at a social care home
in central Romania, Georgiana Pascu arranged an impromptu visit to inspect the
facility.

“In the beginning, we were quite sure there is nothing there,” said Pascu,
program manager at the Center for Legal Resources, a rights group. She said that
a day earlier, state authorities had carried out an inspection of the care home
for older and disabled people, and no issues had been flagged.

But what she and her colleagues uncovered at the care home in the village of
Bardesti, she said, was “outrageous … inhuman.”



“There was a very young woman who looked malnourished, she didn’t move, she
didn’t speak at all — she was lying on the basement floor,” she told The
Associated Press. “There was another young woman, she was crying and asking for
water.”

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The nongovernmental organization discovered six residents in late July living in
the Little House of Min’s cluttered, dingy basement surrounded by construction
materials in addition to 23 people living on the floors above. Four residents
with severe disabilities were lying on mattresses “soiled with feces, urine, and
blood, with flies on them,” they said, who “couldn’t defend themselves and
couldn’t ask for help.”



The team of three from the Center for Legal Resources immediately called the
emergency services, and police and ambulance crews arrived, but even they called
for backup, Pascu said. Hours later, a resident directed Pascu to what she
describes as a small “secluded room … with just a bed inside” where two
residents lived with “no artificial or natural light.”

The NGO’s findings triggered a judicial investigation and follow similar
discoveries in other private institutions. So far, two Cabinet members were
forced to resign over what Romanian media have dubbed the “horror homes”
scandal.

The discovery is just the latest in a string of disturbing revelations that have
made front-page news in the local media, spotlighting the impact corruption can
have on the socially vulnerable in Romania, which joined the European Union in
2007.



One of the main conditions of Romania’s accession to the EU was that it crack
down on endemic corruption, but it remains one of the bloc’s most corrupt
members, according to Transparency International.

In early July, police raids at three separate care homes in Ilfov County near
Bucharest also uncovered widespread abuse and neglect of older and disabled
people. Images emerged of residents tied to beds in filthy rooms, some
exhibiting signs of physical abuse and appearing rake-thin.

In those cases, Romania’s anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, said that two
organized criminal gangs accused of human trafficking and other charges were
formed in 2020 to “exploit people with disabilities or in vulnerable
situations.” Prosecutors said residents were subjected to unpaid labor via acts
of coercion as well as physical violence, and weren’t given enough food.

Prosecutors launched a criminal investigation and said there are more than 20
suspects in the case.

DIICOT detained three people after the findings at the Little House of Min,
which it alleges formed a criminal gang in 2020 “to commit the crime of human
trafficking,” and that residents were subjected to “inhumane and degrading
treatment” through acts of physical and mental aggression.



Residents were being exploited under the guise of an association that withheld
their state benefits payments or sums sent to them by friends and relatives,
prosecutors said. Instead of the money going toward the residents’ care, it was
mainly used “for the benefit of the members of the group.”

Two local officials were fired over the findings and the authorities shuttered
the home.

The AP contacted the young man who had raised concerns to Pascu about the Little
House of Min, but he wasn’t authorized to talk because he’s considered a victim
in the legal case.

Doru Constantin, a spokesperson from Mures County social services, confirmed to
the AP that the Little House of Min was checked by inspectors a day before the
NGO’s discovery, but said they didn’t find anything “because they didn’t have
access to the basement of the building.”

“I can’t believe even now something like this could happen in our county,” he
added.



President Klaus Iohannis has called the revelations a “national disgrace” and
said measures must be taken to “cut evil from the roots.”

One of the Ilfov care home bosses, DIICOT alleges, was squandering residents’
money on prostitutes, drugs and parties. He is also being investigated for abuse
of office by the National Anti-Corruption Directorate, which is also
investigating two social inspectors for corruption who carried out favorable
checks on his home in May.

Family Minister Gabriela Firea, who is reported to have close ties to that care
home boss, was forced to resign amid the sprawling scandal, as was Labor
Minister Marius Budai. They both denied knowledge of care homes’ woes.

Alin Mituta, a Romanian legislator at the European Parliament, asked the
European Commission in July if it planned to investigate Romania’s abusive care
homes issue, which he said directly violated the bloc’s Charter of Fundamental
Rights. The responsible Romanian authorities, Mituta said, “were made aware of
these issues … but no action was taken.”

European Commission spokesperson Anitta Hipper said in a statement sent to the
AP on Wednesday that the Commission is “deeply concerned by this case as there
is no place for mistreatment of vulnerable people in the EU,” adding it can’t
comment on ongoing investigations.



The recent revelations have also brought back memories of when Romania’s
communist-era orphanages gained international exposure after communist leader
Nicolae Ceausescu was executed in 1989. In the early 1990s, images were
broadcast around the world of thousands of children abandoned in orphanages
where they existed in squalid conditions.

Bianca Albu, a Romanian investigative journalist who first reported on the Ilfov
care homes six months ago along with her colleague Ovidiu Vanghele, said their
report didn’t initially yield “any attention from the local or national
authorities.” She fears that “these problems are happening all over” Romania.

“It’s like a disease,” she said.

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu expressed gratitude last week to the NGOs that
“exposed abuses in the welfare system.”

“It is obvious that the Romanian state needs help,” he said. “We need to close
this chapter of abuse.”


___

Stephen McGrath reported from Sighisoara.


___

This story has been corrected to reflect the correct spelling of former Family
Minister Gabriela Firea’s first name. It is Gabriela, not Gabriel.




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