Hello,
I am an adoptive mother of a child from the Russe orphanage for younger children.
I've been following the story on the children in the Mogilino orphanage and I am very concerned that some of these children may have been put in the Russe orphanage and may be subjected to the same treatment as before.
My son speaks of unbelievable events of sexual abuse, child pornography, torture, murder, starvation, physical abuse. He says at the hands of men and women that worked at the orphanage and apparently these people smuggled him out of the orphanage where most of the abuse occurred but it also occurred in the orphage as well.
He describes one of the abusers as a man that drove a big truck, possibly a garbage truck. I am writing you because when I tried to discuss this with the orphanage or the lawyer that we used for the adoption, they accused my son of making the stories up.
When I saw the video of the Mogilino orphanage and read that some of these kids would be transferred to Russe, I became very fearful for them. Let me assure you that the situation there is no different.
It is so important that people in the media are bringing these stories to the public because I believe that most of the wonderful people of Bulgaria have no idea this is happening in their own country. Also, perhaps bringing this to light will change the minds of the parents that put their children in orphanages.
Thank you.