Poor Orphans!

[StoneHenge]

Did you see the news report last night about the Romanian orphanages that had been reported about some time ago, when the government there had promised that the children would never be left in that state again?

I felt physically sick when I saw them. They looked so helpless, a lot of them with serious mental issues from neglect. This one poor baby who had water on the brain but had never been treated, and she had a very large head and looked so poorly.

I wanted to pick each and every one of them up and take them back home with me.

Did you also see the news report about the man who due to be sentanced next week who was stopped for dangerous driving, because he was totally blind?

He was blinded by a bomb blast in Iraq, which I do feel for him, but why him and his brother then thought it was a good idea to drive blind is beyond me. Why do people do such dangerous things?

[tact77]

I saw the part about the orphans, I cried. I have told Mr T if we ever decide to have another baby I will adopt one. Some of them were born fit and healthy and only gained mental and phyisical problems because they were left alone in their cots for so long. :cry:



SH, tonight they are going to show how easy it is to buy a baby there. :cry:

[StoneHenge]

Not sure I could watch that tact. I may well go over there and take them all back home with me. I find it so hard to block out things like that because I know I am helpless to lok after them all. I just wanted to pick up those babies and hug them. Their tiny faces and most of them couldn't sit up because they spent so long on their backs. What sort of a life is that?

Why can't they let childless couples over here and other countries just come and take them and give them a home. It's so hearbreaking.

I find watching anything like that where children end up so alone and sick so disturbing.

[Annabel]

I havent seen the report but I have always wondered why some countries make it so difficult for foreign peope to adopt children, yet they are happy to leave them in orphanages in squalor and neglect :cry:

[sassieb]

i cannot watch anything like this. I saw a [programme once, a few years ago and it was either china or japan and those babies,, some who could not even hold their heads up were shoved in wooden seats :badmood: ,, in filthy nappies then just chucked into cots :sad: ,, the people running the place didnt even seem bothered that they were caught on camera.
I was totally in bits and it haunted me for a very long time :cry:

[sp54]

I saw the orphanage report :cry:

It was heartbreaking - the poor mite with water on the brain :( I used to look after a little girl with that condition and it is treatable with a 'shunt' [ a tube draining the fluid off into the stomach], and the kids with their hands tied behind their backs - how cruel is that?

Shocking viewing and made us feel very, very sad :sad:

[sassieb]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sp54 @ 5th September 2006 - 10:34 AM) 196607</div>
and the kids with their hands tied behind their backs - how cruel is that?

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Why??????????? :rant:

[sp54]

:cry: They were in the room with the kids who were rocking backwards and forwards. Apparently it was to 'protect' themselves and mostly others from their lashing out.

Wouldn't anyone lash out if they were left unstimulated with their hands tied behind their backs?

Poor mites :sad:

[Omega]

I saw the report too; I was so upset by it all; especially the babies :cry: That "nurse" was so brave letting the camera crew in to film the orphanage. What got me was the boy who had his hands tied behind his back and the "nurse" undid them only for him to be so confused that he kept putting his hands behind his back again to be tied - that poor poor child.

And that gorgeous baby at the end of the report waiting to be admitted to the orphanage-it looked perfect and so innocent; I could have just picked it up and walked away :sad:

Hubby & I were discussing it and what worries us is when the join the EE how many will come over here, continue their lifestyle as in Romania, they will have children and dump them (as they do in their own country) and expect us to look after them - it doesn't bear thinking about :sad:

[sassieb]

How are these places allowed to exist
:cry: