A grandmother who raises alone four orphan grandchildren made a call for help. Maria Dechant said the justice system and the authorities for the protection of children’s rights make a common front to take away her minor granddaughter for handing her over to a foreigner who admits that he is not her father.

In a news conference hosted by IPN, Maria Dechant said that she raises alone four grandchildren after her son-in-law died in 2012 and her daughter died in 2017. After her son-in-law died, her daughter remained with two minor children. She had an apartment in Tiraspol, where she lived together with her children. But she didn’t want to stay there as everything reminded her of her late husband there.

The young woman got acquainted with a Romanian citizen on a social networking site. The man persuaded her to sell all the furniture that was in her apartment and to give him the earned money to clear his debts for the own apartment. He later persuaded her to go to Romanian with him. While in Romania, the woman and her two children were subject to violence. They were ultimately driven away by the Romanian man who abused alcohol.

The woman retuned to Moldova with the children. In a period, she went to work in Russia and left the children in the care of the grandmother. When she returned from work, she was pregnant, but was still married to the Romanian citizen. Therefore, the man was written as the father of the child who was born in the latter’s birth certificate even if he wasn’t the child’s biological father. One more child was born later.

In a period after the woman’s death, the Romanian national came to Moldova to take the child, even if he earlier admitted that the girl wasn’t his child. The lawyer for the Romanian national is allegedly involved in child trafficking, while the man has an accentuated disability degree certificate.

Maria Dechant noted that she is desperate. She went through all the courts up to the Supreme Court of Justice, but her request to deprive the Romanian national of parental rights was rejected. The ten-year-old granddaughter does not want to interact with this man.

The grandmother demands that the alleged father of the child, who never showed any care for the child, should do a DNA paternity test. She is sure that the test will show the man is not the child’s biological father and he would not be able to take the girl with him.

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