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A new scandal has broke out about children's rights. Recently in Portugal, a child that was given to foster care for almost 5 years was given back to a mother that never cared about the child or has any conditions to take care of the child.
Indignation and revolt are emerging from both Portugal and Russia as a video made by a popular russian TV showed the child being beaten by the mother, vodka bottles on the floor, cigarette buts in a can and more.
The story so far:
Alexandra was born and raised in Portugal by a Portuguese foster family. Her mother, a Russian emigrant, didn't have conditions to take care of the child and gave her up to said foster family. Throughout the years, the mother didn't care much about the child and according to information, all she earned would go to alcohol or other vices. It is also suspected that Alexandra's biological mother engaged in prostitution.
Alexandra lived happily with her foster family, receiving love and education until the moment her biological mother, having let her visa expire (and done nothing to renew it...) was ordered to be deported. At this moment, a battle for the custody of the child began and it ended with Alexandra being given to an alcoholic mother and send to a family that looks anything but normal.
The russian newspaper, "Komsomolskaia Pravda", wrote:
When we read about this, we have to wonder just what do judges think when they recklessly throw a child into the biologic parents' care. Just because it's a biological parent, it doesn't mean it can take better care of the child. In fact, if that were to be true, we wouldn't have so many children up for adoption or in foster homes.
Alexandra is another case of incompetent fools that treat children as cattle, throwing them around without any consideration for the child's well being or the psychological effects such drastic changes may have in this child's mind.
Alexandra was taken from a clean, healthy environment into a place of filth, alcohol and tobacco where she is beaten for the simple fact of wanting to go to her step-sister. Her mother clearly resents the child as well as her upbringing and education and makes sure to show it.
The mother has gone as far as accusing the Portuguese family that took care of Alexandra for all those years of wanting to sell her organs or throw her in a prostitution house because for Alexandra's mother (according to her own words), it's unconceivable that the foster family may like the child in any way.
This "mother" has nothing in her that allows one to call her as such. She drinks, smokes, is violent to her daughter, clearly doesn't like her and all she wants is to try to suck up money from the Portuguese family. They want to sue the Portuguese family for slander while at the same time she slanders the Portuguese family by accusing them of wanting to sell Alexandra's organs.
The video shows a house full of filth and decay, with too many people living there, smoke clogging it up, etc. The backyard is dirty, full of trash and debris and who knows what else. It's in this sickly environment that Alexandra's dog was tied to a 1 meter long chain, attached to a dog house that is falling apart.
This situation is starting an incredible uproar both in Portugal and in Russia, with both sides claiming for the returning of the child to the foster parents in Portugal. The Russians themselves have claimed that the child has no conditions to live in that hole and should be returned. When you have the prideful Russian people claiming that one of their own should be sent back to the foster parents instead of fighting for the child to stay, you have to start wondering if the judge that rules this decision had any brains in his/her head.
Indignation and revolt are emerging from both Portugal and Russia as a video made by a popular russian TV showed the child being beaten by the mother, vodka bottles on the floor, cigarette buts in a can and more.
The story so far:
Alexandra was born and raised in Portugal by a Portuguese foster family. Her mother, a Russian emigrant, didn't have conditions to take care of the child and gave her up to said foster family. Throughout the years, the mother didn't care much about the child and according to information, all she earned would go to alcohol or other vices. It is also suspected that Alexandra's biological mother engaged in prostitution.
Alexandra lived happily with her foster family, receiving love and education until the moment her biological mother, having let her visa expire (and done nothing to renew it...) was ordered to be deported. At this moment, a battle for the custody of the child began and it ended with Alexandra being given to an alcoholic mother and send to a family that looks anything but normal.
The russian newspaper, "Komsomolskaia Pravda", wrote:
"Alexandra's mother shows the return of her daughter to Russia as a victory against the Portuguese Law System. However, this "victory" doesn't shine as much as she would have liked it to.
An old house, cigarette butts inside a food can, tobacco smoke filling the house and drunkard or hangover parents and family are the surroundings of Alexandra's 'new childhood'. The mommy gets artistically (read - fakes) sensitized by a small bouquet of flowers that the child gives her while at the same time, she doesn't forget to hit the child repeatedly because of her 'Portuguese education'."
According to the grandfather, Serguei Nikolaevitch, it's more likely for them to learn Portuguese than it is for Alexandra to learn Russian:
"The child doesn't speak Russian. We'll learn Portuguese faster than she'll learn the great and powerful national language. In September she's supposed to go to the kindergarden but we don't know how she'll interact with other children. Right now she only plays with her cousin."
The reporters also noted that Alexandra doesn't have her own room and she has to share a room with her mother and grandmother. According to the same reporters, this case is having deep repercussions in the public opinion of Russia.
When we read about this, we have to wonder just what do judges think when they recklessly throw a child into the biologic parents' care. Just because it's a biological parent, it doesn't mean it can take better care of the child. In fact, if that were to be true, we wouldn't have so many children up for adoption or in foster homes.
Alexandra is another case of incompetent fools that treat children as cattle, throwing them around without any consideration for the child's well being or the psychological effects such drastic changes may have in this child's mind.
Alexandra was taken from a clean, healthy environment into a place of filth, alcohol and tobacco where she is beaten for the simple fact of wanting to go to her step-sister. Her mother clearly resents the child as well as her upbringing and education and makes sure to show it.
The mother has gone as far as accusing the Portuguese family that took care of Alexandra for all those years of wanting to sell her organs or throw her in a prostitution house because for Alexandra's mother (according to her own words), it's unconceivable that the foster family may like the child in any way.
This "mother" has nothing in her that allows one to call her as such. She drinks, smokes, is violent to her daughter, clearly doesn't like her and all she wants is to try to suck up money from the Portuguese family. They want to sue the Portuguese family for slander while at the same time she slanders the Portuguese family by accusing them of wanting to sell Alexandra's organs.
The video shows a house full of filth and decay, with too many people living there, smoke clogging it up, etc. The backyard is dirty, full of trash and debris and who knows what else. It's in this sickly environment that Alexandra's dog was tied to a 1 meter long chain, attached to a dog house that is falling apart.
This situation is starting an incredible uproar both in Portugal and in Russia, with both sides claiming for the returning of the child to the foster parents in Portugal. The Russians themselves have claimed that the child has no conditions to live in that hole and should be returned. When you have the prideful Russian people claiming that one of their own should be sent back to the foster parents instead of fighting for the child to stay, you have to start wondering if the judge that rules this decision had any brains in his/her head.
