November 2011

In November 2011, together with brother Nicu and some others, I visited the family on the pictures below. I still remember very well that on that day there was a lot of mud. While trying not to fall down or drop the food parcel in the mud, we arrived at the small house. The plastic in the windows, the mud everywhere and the cold smelly house, made me feel very sorry for the 2 small girls that lived in this mess.
The fact that all the adults were at home during the day, grandmother, mother and father and nobody had a proper job, made it already clear for me what kind of family we were visiting. Also the fact that all of them had been drinking, probably to forget their miserable life, made the situation even worse.
Nothing was clean, fresh or with hope, there was no love, nothing positive...everywhere mud, a dirty smell and the hopelessness and darkness was very obvious....We shared with the family about Gods love and the fact that He can change lives but the choice is ours/ theirs... I still remember when we left that I felt very sad and sorry for the family, especially for the girls who didn't have a choice where and how they want to grow up. They just depend on their parents to take care of them....

Yesterday while visiting some families with a food parcel, we passed again the house of this family. I asked brother Nicu how the family was doing and he told me that nobody lives anymore in the house. Something awful had happened....

Father and mother had been tying the oldest girl to the bed with the chain for the dog and had been beating her over and over. Also the youngest girl had been beaten and abused. The parents made fun of the girls and didn't care for their children.
When people found out what had been happening, the police came and the girls were taken to the orphanage in the nearest town, father was send to prison for 5 years but surprisingly mother has not been send to prison but for 3 years she will receive some kind of supervision. The rights of the parents weren't taken....

After this news became public, the television came to film and interviewed the mother. The link to the video clip, I put below. Mother tells without any shame about how she would tie her oldest daughter to the bed and how they would beat her. She is trying to make the right documents cause she wants to bring her daughters home from the orphanage.

Newsclip about family in Micleuseni

After hearing what had happened to these poor girls, I felt very, very sorry for them and of course the main question I am thinking about now is: how can we/ I help in this kind of situations? Because there are more children in Micleuseni, Huzun and Lozova who live in horrible situations. Besides the fact that we can pray for protection, I also pray that God will make it possible that our paths will cross and that He will show us how we can reach out to those who are in such desperate need of help!