16 children want to leave Patriarchate’s boarding school accused of abuse
The Agency for State Care and Assistance for the Victims of Human Trafficking has not spoken about the reasons why the children want to leave the Patriarchate’s boarding school.
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Sixteen children have expressed the desire to leave the Patriarchate’s Ninotsminda boarding school, the Agency for State Care and Assistance for the Victims of Human Trafficking has reported.
The state agency, which entered the boarding school earlier this week, said that six children have already been placed in a different facility amid allegations of violence in the school.
The agency says that they received the most recent call reporting alleged violence in the boarding school 10 days ago.
Ninotsminmda boarding school, which currently houses 47 children, has been under the spotlight for several months.
Top clerics who administer the facility have not allowed inspectors, particularly the Public Defender’s Office’s staff, to conduct monitoring according to the law.
Deputy Health Minister Tamar Gabunia has stated that the ministry is working on Ninotsminda boarding school issue and the decisions will be made which will be 'in the best interests of children.'
The reason behind the refusal was the ‘anti-Christian attitudes’ of the public defender and her employees.
Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria stated earlier this week that the country’s Prosecutor’s Office is investigating three cases of alleged violence and one case of alleged rape in the Ninotsminda boarding school.
She has accused state agencies of ‘doing nothing genuine’ to ensure the monitoring of the facility ‘where children may be victims of violence.’
Civic activists, who have organised several rallies to protest the barring of inspectors into the facility, have stated that the government ‘always closes its eyes when it comes to the Patriarchate because of the institute’s high public rating.’