These are alarming (voices said – ed.), But I can’t imagine the priest [Andrejs] Mediņš now kept the child without bread and water and made him work all day for 12 hours – these are the conditions of the concentration camp, Edvards Pavlovskis, Bishop of the Jelgava Diocese of the Latvian Catholic Church in Latvia, told the portal Delfi, under the supervision of the Brukna community. Inspectorate (VBTAI) together with the Ombudsman’s Office has recorded violations of children’s rights.
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“There aren’t any. There can’t be any, but the child will run away,” Pavlovsky told Delfi. “No one has officially told me anything, I have no complaint from the police, from VBTAI,” Pavlovsky said, noting that if such complaints were received, I would think how to react.
“I was talking to him, it was a violation for him that he did not have the documents that they were minors could be there. You could also believe this more than what is written. I am not an investigator and I have not conducted an investigation.
It is a violation of a warning I will write to him. I haven’t started it, but I want to write it right now and send it, “said the bishop.
“I also know the context, why it sounded, where it came from. Those children didn’t say it, said another person who wanted to harm and lubricate it,” Pavlovskis said, but refrained from specifying the possible people who wanted to lubricate and to whom. .
“There is an old saying – ‘what is claimed without evidence is rejected without evidence,'” said the cleric, noting that he was “not so naive as to make anyone who shouts believe right away”.
“Obviously, this violation is legally there, but knowing the case a little more, I am inclined to believe that it is fabricated,” the bishop said.
Asked what he knows more about these issues, Pavlovsky said he would not tell.
It has already been reported that State Inspectorate for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (VBTAI) together with the ombudsman’s office in Brukna “Blessing of the Mountain Community” has recorded violations of children’s rights, according to information published on the VBTAI website.
However, the portal “Delfi” failed to contact the priest of the leaders of the Brukna community Andrejs Mediņš – he did not answer the phone calls of journalists of the portal “Delfi” on Thursday afternoon.
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