Child-friendly interview rooms will be opened in seven district prosecutor’s offices by the end of this year. There will be questioned children subject to abuse and ill-treatment and who were witnesses and victims of offenses. Iurie Perevoznic, chief prosecutor of the Minors and Human Rights Division of the Prosecutor General’s Office, has told IPN that they are now carrying out repair works and are purchasing the necessary equipment and furniture.
The rooms will be created in the districts of Calarasi, Ocnita, Soroca, Orhei, Anenii-Noi, Leova, and Cahul. The prosecutor’s offices were selected depending on their technical capacities and owned offices. More than 1 million lei will be invested in setting up these rooms. The money is allocated within the justice sector reform strategy for 2011-2016.
Iurie Perevoznic said they are analyzing the experience of Norway, which has regional houses for interviewing children. Moldova can also set up such houses in the north, center and south.
Currently, there are three child-friendly interview rooms in the courts of law of Hancesti, Balti, and Edinet. Nongovernmental organizations opened two such chambers in Chisinau.
