Mothers begging with their children to be deprived of parental rights in Moldova

Chisinau, 25 March /MOLDPRES/ - Mothers begging along with their children run the risk of being deprived of their parental rights. The head of the Chisinau city hall’s department for the protection of child’s rights, Lucia Caciuc, has made statements to this effect, given that, once the weather is warming, the number of beggars was increasing on capital’s streets.      

Lucia Caciuc noted that the procedure of depriving of parental rights was pretty complicated. According to Caciuc, most women with children, who are begging on Chisinau’s streets on this period, are not from the capital, but from other settlements of Moldova. “Mothers have even made an additional source of living from this and when one tries to explain them that it is not the case for them to stay on streets, they show money, sometimes hundreds of lei they earn. It is very difficult for us to act, since if the mother and child have identity acts and the minor is cared, then we cannot act,” Lucia Caciuc said at the weekly meeting of the city hall’s services. She specified that the problem would exist as long as people continue giving money to beggars.       

The acting head of the social assistance and health general department, Carolina Olaru, said that, most often, beggars categorically refuse to be assisted.  

The acting general mayor of Chisinau, Ruslan Codreanu, said that begging had become a business for some people. In the emerged situation, a solution would be a strict ban of begging and creation of services for the support of vulnerable families, Codreanu added.