2024-04-06 07:52:28
“When a child is found in the life cell, he is placed with guardians, and the parents are given a three-month deadline to change their mind and apply for the child’s beautification. If the parents do not apply within this period, the child is entered in the list of children available for adoption and the search for adoptive parents begins.
In the case of the mentioned girl, the parents never changed their minds and did not apply for her beautification, so the girl is currently included in the list of possible children for adoption and will be looking for adopters who can best meet her needs. Once they are found, the adoption process will be started,” Alina Žilinaitė, representative of the State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service, informed Elta.
ELTA reminds that the girl was found last year, on December 11, in Kaunas, in the hospital, in the life box installed on V. Putvinskis street. This was the oldest child left in a life cell in Lithuania since the cells were established in 2009.
The police later identified the mother of the child. The Kaunas County Chief Police Commissariat refused to start a pre-trial investigation, the police did not release any more information. There is no liability for leaving a newborn baby in the life box. The legacy of the newborn is anonymous.
As previously announced by the Kaunas hospital, a girl was found in the cradle after the bell rang in the life box. She was covered with a blanket, neatly dressed, walking and talking. The girl was then transferred to the services responsible for the further care of the child. The media reported that the person who left the girl explained the reasons for the decision in the note – he said he did not want the girl to grow up in an inappropriate environment where there is psychological violence, alcohol, and poverty.
The life cell is a special room in which, when a newborn or a child is placed, a signal reaches the staff on duty and the teachers urgently take care of the child, whom the parents cannot or do not want to take care of themselves. Currently, life cells in Lithuania operate in about ten institutions in various cities of the country. Last year, five children were left on life support.
According to the data of the State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service, since the establishment of life cells in 2009 until now, 95 children have been left in them, 16 of them have been recovered by their parents.
2024-04-06 07:52:28