Police open criminal case over sexual abuse claims at Cocieri care centre
Police opened a criminal case after residents of a care centre in Cocieri said an employee sexually abused them.
Written later, from the reports of that day.
What it means for you
The Cocieri centre urgently needs new beds and linen, and the Ministry of Labour says talks on them have started. The accused employee resigned and left the institution. The case is now with the police and the prosecutor's office.
What happened
Dubasari police opened a criminal case for non-consensual sexual acts after an unannounced visit by the Institute for Human Rights of Moldova (IDOM) to the Cocieri residential care centre. The centre is for elderly people and people with disabilities. About 360 people live there. The centre's director said the administration did not know about the accusations. The employee concerned denied them.
In short
- Nearly 260 of the roughly 360 people living in the centre have psychoneurological disabilities.
- IDOM filed a criminal complaint with the prosecutor's office after learning the details from several sources.
- IDOM says one resident was locked in a room, sleeping on a metal bed without a mattress.
- The centre's director says the mattress was sometimes removed because of the resident's incontinence problems.
- In a single day, dozens of kilograms of food went missing, IDOM says.
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