As the report identifies, being sent to an orphanage can lead to “irreversible psychological damage in all children”. A child needs a family to build emotional attachments and social development skills. Without this strong foundation they will grow up with life long difficulties.
“And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty” (2 Cor 6:18).
Appallingly no one really knows how many children (with or without a disability) are in State care. UNICEF estimate 82,000, some NGOs suggest 200,000. The government say 29,000 but this is unrealistic as their method of data collection is suspect to say the least.
The disturbing DRI report indicates that children in care are seriously threatened, with many known to be suffering basic human rights abuses. For children living with a disability these abuses are even greater.
Physically restrained in beds or cribs their limbs simply cease to operate. Children are raped, beaten and subjected to force labour. Such abuse seems to start from age 13: “Sex at 13 or 14 between kids is normal. We all did it … some ended up pregnant and had to have an abortion since a pregnant teenager would cause a lot of problems for the director” (Oleg, an orphan graduate).
Orphanages can be recruitment venues to find vulnerable children for sexual exploitation, organ harvesting or child pornography
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