Svetlana Pogorila said that her daughter and her minor granddaughters have been subject to cruel domestic violence for several years. In a news conference at IPN, she related that her daughter and the children are beaten by her son-in-law and by his mother. Svetlana Pogorila said that though she repeatedly asked the Prosecutor’s Office to start a criminal case over violence, it took no steps. The woman is afraid that her daughter and granddaughters will be beaten to death and nobody will be to blame.

The woman’s daughter Nadejda married to a man from Chisinau in 2005. Svetlana Pogorila said that her daughter has been beaten from the very beginning, but told her about it after several years of marriage. “She said she was afraid of her husband and her mother-in-law. Every time we met, she told me that she can no longer live like this,” said the woman.

In time, the daughter became estranged from the mother. Svetlana Pogorila said she insisted on seeing the daughter and grandchildren, but the mother of her son-in-law threatened to kill her. Thus, she can see her granddaughters in secret only at the kindergarten, but the children also started to avoid her. “One of my granddaughters told me they are banned from speaking to me and threatened with beating,” said the woman.

She also said that her daughter is forced to submit complaints against her. On October 21, she is to go to the Rascani police commissariat, where a report will be drawn up against her for hooliganism.

In the same news conference, the woman’s sister Lilia Pogorila said the woman’s son-in-law is a drug addict and he forces his wife to take drugs too so as to sign the documents.

Svetlana Pogorila said the prosecutors do nothing. According to some sources, the mother of her son-in-law pays large sums of money for criminal cases not to be started against her family.

The woman called on the prosecutors and the journalists to examine this case as her daughter and granddaughters are in danger and she fears a tragedy.