Five women who worked as therapists at the center of the association for social integration of children with disabilities in Suceava were detained for ill-treatment. They are accused of repeatedly beating, humiliating, scolding and threatening to beat or even kill several children with disabilities at the center who could not tell their parents about the trauma they had suffered.

According to the prosecutor’s office of Suchavskyi court, the victims are five children, the attacks took place on August 7-9.

• “The acts of violence were aimed at a total of five minor victims and were of a different nature, namely slaps on different parts of the body, aggressive jerks, hair pulling.
• Each accused was charged with separate acts, depending on the number of victims and acts committed on different dates. At the same time, it was stated that during the same period, each of the 5 defendants created a serious danger with the help of any measures or treatment for the physical and intellectual development of one or more minor victims, children with disabilities (…) .
• The actions and measures that constitute ill-treatment and which were applied to the defendants concerned a total of 5 minor victims and were very diverse: verbal aggression, loud and aggressive tone, threats of violence and death, humiliation of the victims. , insults, repeated blows, aggressive jerks, lack of supervision, authoritarian reactions, various physical corrections, which are used in order for minors to accurately follow the given instructions,” state the prosecutors.

According to them, the five women, who worked as therapists, took advantage of the obvious vulnerability of the children due to their young age and health, and their inability to tell their parents about the injuries they had suffered at the hands of supposedly qualified persons who should have offered them treatment and protection.

Five women were detained and will be brought to court with a request for a preventive measure.