Bulgaria Checks Child Abuse Claims in Serbia
Crime | August 16, 2007, ThursdayBulgaria's consul in Nis met the parents of an eleven-year-old boy with Bulgarian and Serbian citizenship, who claim the child has been abused by two men in the town of Zaichar.
The mother, a Bulgarian married to a Serb, claims that authorities in the Serbian town hushed up a case of abuse in which her son was stripped naked and insulted. Earlier in the week the woman sent an open letter to President Georgi Parvanov and Foreign Minister Ivaylo Kalfin with a request for assistance in protecting the rights of her son.
The mother says the boy went to a local shop to buy watercolours, when two men knocked him down on a chair, pulled off his pants and started calling him names. The humiliation stopped only after a casual passer-by intervened.
Geoprgi Yurukov, Bulgaria's consul in the southern city of Nis, conferred with the mayor of Zaichar, the head of the local police and the chairman of the court. He assured that Serbian authorities are very cooperative in their efforts to discover the truth and bring the responsible to justice.
The case prompted the Foreign Ministry to advise once again all Bulgarian nationals abroad to contact immediately the country's diplomatic or consulate representative in the respective country should they find themselves in serious troubles.
The mother, a Bulgarian married to a Serb, claims that authorities in the Serbian town hushed up a case of abuse in which her son was stripped naked and insulted. Earlier in the week the woman sent an open letter to President Georgi Parvanov and Foreign Minister Ivaylo Kalfin with a request for assistance in protecting the rights of her son.
The mother says the boy went to a local shop to buy watercolours, when two men knocked him down on a chair, pulled off his pants and started calling him names. The humiliation stopped only after a casual passer-by intervened.
Geoprgi Yurukov, Bulgaria's consul in the southern city of Nis, conferred with the mayor of Zaichar, the head of the local police and the chairman of the court. He assured that Serbian authorities are very cooperative in their efforts to discover the truth and bring the responsible to justice.
The case prompted the Foreign Ministry to advise once again all Bulgarian nationals abroad to contact immediately the country's diplomatic or consulate representative in the respective country should they find themselves in serious troubles.
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