Prosecutor-General Maros Zilinka has asked to be allowed to take the floor in Parliament in relation to his office's recent findings regarding human rights violations against children in re-education facilities, PG's Office spokeswoman Zuzana Drobova reported.
At the same time, Zilinka has delivered to Parliamentary Chair Peter Pellegrini (Hlas-SD) documents in which the office assesses the state of affairs in the facilities. According to Zilinka, the findings are extensive and extraordinarily grave, as the centres don't carry out their purpose and don't constitute safe places for children where their rights would be respected.
The PG's Office said that it considers it to be alarming when children in re-education facilities can become victims of sexual violence and other unlawful conduct, possibly even repeatedly. The office also found serious deficiencies in the sanitary, spatial and technical conditions of the centres, claiming that they didn't meet even the minimum requirements in some cases.
Pellegrini perceives the results of inspection by the Prosecutor-General's Office as rather bad. "The findings are, of course, very bad and not worthy of the 21st century. Children institutionalized in the facilities are really living in inhumane and often terrible conditions," warned Pellegrini, who wishes both the executive and legislative branches of power to seek solutions to remedy the current state together.
(TASR)
