A row with the parents made two sisters from Balti to want to die. The girls aged 14 and 16 took about 80 different pills. The youngest one died. Ala Condrea, head of the emergency admissions division of the Balti Municipal Hospital, has told IPN that the girls swallowed the pills the day they quarreled with their parents who are divorced, after they told them that they do not have money to buy them the things they needed. The mother even urged one of the girls to earn her living herself.

According to the doctor, the girl who survived related that they made an attempt to make their parents pay attention to their needs. The girls wanted new clothes at the end of the school year. One of them was to finish the ninth grade and to go to the graduation ball.

When the girls took the pills, the mother was in the house, in a room nearby. She entered the girl’s room only in about four hours and found them lying on the bed. The ambulance doctors resuscitated the 16-year-old one. The other girl died.

The doctor said the number of such cases among teens went up. The adolescents resort to such acts mainly when they are neglected by their parents. “The socially-disadvantaged position, the parents’ leaving abroad, the absence of communication, and the unshared love are among the reasons for which the teens commit suicide,” said Ala Condrea.

According to official data, the number of cases of suicide among teens increased in 2012.