Inadequate Child Care and Protection in NC

Clarissa2


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
13/02/2012 12:17

THE DISAPPEARANCE of to two teenage girls from a children’s home in the north of Nicosia two weeks ago barely caused a blip on Turkish Cypriot media radars. Had they been the daughters of even the most lowly local family, they would have been the talk of the coffee shop; appeals for their safe return would have been blaring out of every headline and loudspeaker in the north. But these two girls were not local; they were girls whose Turkish immigrant parents, either through death or destitution, were unable to provide for them.

A week ago, their whereabouts were discovered. The police were called and three men in their early 20s, who had allegedly kept the girls imprisoned for six days, were arrested and charged with false imprisonment and rape...



http://www.cyprus-mail.com/child-abuse/endemic-abuse-and-injustice/20120212