The mother of the newborn who was attempted to be illegally taken out of the country through the Leuseni customs post was placed under arrest for 72 hours. Initially, the police arrested the child’s father, a woman of German nationality who tried to take the child out based on a power of attorney from the father and the driver of the car by which these travelled.
Contacted by IPN, head of the Center for Combatting Trafficking in Persons Lilian Levandovschi said the child’s mother is investigated based on Article 207 of the Penal Code “Illegal taking of children out of the country”. Tomorrow prosecutors will demand that she be charged based on Article 206 “Trafficking in children”, which carries a penalty of 10 to 12 years in jail.
The other three children of the couple will be placed in social assistance services in Balti municipality where they live, while the newborn, who is only 12 days, was placed at the Chisinau-based Rehabilitation Center for Children of an Early Age. For now, the tutelage and prosecution bodies haven’t asked to deprive the parents of parental rights.
The Border Police said that two men with dual nationality, of Moldova and Romania, and a female citizen of Germany who had a child born on February 3 this year with her wanted to leave Moldova on February 15. The persons who were in a car registered in Germany weren’t relatives of the child. One of the passengers had a power of attorney showing that the child’s father allowed to take the child to the EU on vacation.
An operational group of the Border Police Department consisting of investigation and prosecution officers travelled to the scene. These established that the citizen of Germany aged 38, who was native of Kyrgyzstan, tried to illegally take the child, who was born prematurely on February 3, out of the country.
It was preliminarily determined that the baby comes from a socially deprived family. His mother aged 26 has three more minor children. The child’s 28-year-old father served time in jail for theft. Both of the parents are from Balti municipality.
