Disabled Children Face Violence, Neglect in Russian Orphanages
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2014
- (Moscow, September 15, 2014) Nearly 30 percent of all children with disabilities in Russia live in state orphanages where they may face violence and neglect. Russia should stop abuse of children with disabilities in state care, and prioritize support for children with disabilities to live with their families or other family-based care, rather than in institutions.
www.hrw.org/news/2014/09/15/ru...
My daughter was born in Russian and placed in a mental institution when she was three months old. We adopted her when she was three years old. She was very small, wearing size 2T clothing and had a difficult time walking. Most people believed she was two years old when she was adopted.
She is a high school graduate and went to college part time while working. She is now studying to be a pharmacy tech for the local grocery store. We are sure her life would have been different had she grown up in Russia.
bless your heart, I hole your life has been filled with nothing but joy and love.
People with disabilities are not to be thrown away or disregarded. They still are people with value and worthy of being treated with dignity.
Blame Hitler
Preaching to the choir
No they are not. It is what it is. Some people don't want retarded children. That's just a fact
I was adopted from Russia in the early 90's when the Soviet Union fell and came to America, i couldn't watch this without tearing up.. People are disgusting... God bless theses poor children.
Me too, I was adopted from orphanage number 12 in st. Petersburg burg. Somewhere between 1994-1995. I remember a great amount of abuse and hardship.
I was adopted from St. Petersburg, Russia in March of 1999, so blessed to be in the US and have amazing parents.
glad to hear that... 😊
Maria Jay do you still know how to say cyka blyat
I'm proud of dashas' mother, she should be proud too.
Seeing how old some of them are but appear to be babies is shocking to say the least... Makes your heart hurt 💔💔
It really is heartbreaking. Their muscles atrophy and they essentially starve. They are so malnourished their bodies can’t develop normally. Or much at all.
1:01 He's 18 years old but look like 3 year old 😥
I was in orphange #12 in st. Petersburg russia. I remember all kinds of abuse to myself and many of the other kids. It really is miracle im even alive today and didn't stay a vegetable forever.
I can't even begin to know how these children feel..Having to know that they were abused, and then are actuality in good loving hands, let alone, dealing with their own disabilities.
God Bless!
Over my dead body would anyone talk me into abandoning my child.
Its a disgrace that this kind of attitude stills prevails in the 21st century! Those poor kids - what a tragic, loveless life to lead!
this Russia is not same as Mexico disability
means in Mexican disability are prison cages than in Indonesia too, not kidding.
1:01 He's 18 years old but look like 3 year old 😥
Oh no
Down syndrome is hardly a disability these days. They are the best out of us all. They are the happiest, caring and extremely loveable. They say they are "not normal" but we are the not normal ones. I truly believe that.
poor kids i want to adopt all of them and give them love
Kevin I know this is your stupid idea of 'a joke', as you'll doubtless reply, but go ahead. Move to Russia and visit some appalling orphanages with lying-down rooms. And God help you if you become disabled on the job, or depression sets in and you find yourself addicted to alcohol or heroin, because Russia doesn't seem to give a shit about its addicts, provides few resources, and regards addiction as a 'moral failing'.
Dasha has down syndrome, most of those kids grow up being pretty independent and having jobs. Some even go to college. They might be different but they sometimes have an average IQ. No need to automatically assume they will most likely not say anything until they are over 30. Had 2 friends in High-school with down syndrome and one was great with piano.
I hope Russia will step up their game and make improvements for caring for children and adults with disabilities who are in state care.
Elizabeth Schiada Yep
No child deserves to live in such an institution like that
I'm physically disabled. I am so glad I wasn't born in Russia.
+Killian's Swan Me too, I would have been left to rot. I live in the UK and use a wheelchair, I also have a job and a wonderful little boy. No way would I have gotten that in Russia.
I'm so glad the mothers decided to take their children back. Don't blame all Russians for this kind of behavior. There are many good Russians out there so don't let this ruin your view of them as a whole.
*****
....I believe there are more then just a 'handful' of good Russians in the country, despite what this video shows.
+nerdieone1 i agree^-^ There are people who expect people to be bad just because they're from Russia. A lot of Russians are able to see how fucked up this is just as much a someone from another country would.
I went to a 24 hr daycare centre in former USSR as a child . I was there 4 days a week. I lived there ghe rest of the time. I was abused there quite frequently and so were other kids. That was back in the 80's. I left in 1990. I can imagine how much worse it is for the orphans living in group homes and mental institutions.
I am American...never been to Russia, and am not disabled in any way but, my sisters and I were all taken from my parents (3different times for child abuse) as young kids. 2out of 3 of the facilities I was personally in was alot like the places spoken of here. The only reason the one was not was because I was old enough to defend myself and indeed DID protect n defend myself while I was in there. They drugged me too...all the time! My poor sister (who is indeed mentally disabled) was tied to a chair, placed inside a closet while tied to the chair, and was raped too! SMH I could tell u stories that would make ur head spin!! Russia isn't the only country doing this---dont believe it is. It happens rite here in America too💔😓
This footage is the most truthful that I have ever seen. It embarks on the mistreatment of disabled children in orphanages then I reveals the successes of those children that are taken into foster homes. I am very impressed with the coverage content .
We know about abuse within the evangelical adoptive families. Even deaths. These foster families killed 2-year-old Kostya Shlёpin, 7-year-old Victor Tulimov and others. This does not mean that all Christian foster families use violence against children. This means that not all families are suitable for orphans
Unfortunately abusive behavior existed since the beginning of time. Kostya, Victor, and others have died in foster homes. Such an occurrence proves that we must properly investigate these foster home placement organizations and the caregivers in the foster home to make sure that these children are safe.
thank you for the video.... try to hide but children are not forgotten.
Childs deserve the best fom adults and disables childs deserve the best of the best from us becasue they cannot manage themselves alone.
If most adults around the World whatever our situation is would think in this way and also we would remember that we were time ago childs and how we demanded help from our adults, i am sure that we could help "our" childs to grew better.
There will be times in the life of an adult to be sad and to feel bad experiences, but absence of love, lonelyness and helpless cannot be felt by childs: NEVER!!!
I wish all the disabled childs the best of the best: LOVE AND CARE!!!. YOU ARE THE REAL ANGELS OF THIS WORLD
brakaponter Palavras lindas a sua, penso igual, crianças são anjos na terra e devem ter muito cuidado e amor.
Thank you for creating this video. It's very insightful!
Parents’ ignorance causes children to be housed in deplorable conditions. I fought the healthcare providers for no education presented to these parents. Disabled children deserve to be loved and their needs met.
Disabled children were put in state institutions in America too. In 1969 my parents were told to put me in a institution because I was not talking. My parents refuse and raised me as a normal child. My dad would say that he prayer for me to start talking then he couldn't shut me up.🤣🤣
Oh news to me. Never heard of one in America. I know there's group foster homes for older kids and they usually love the home. Don't even compare us with Russia.
It's a self fulfilling prophecy if no care is given.
Heartbreaking
Some people believe disabled people cannot work.
Some can't but it doesn't mean they deserve to be abused.
The thing that sucks, is they are right. They can develop, but there’s a limit and they still remain are a liability
Sometimes the obstacles we face are the blessings we miss if we aren't careful to be grateful to our Lord ... children are NOT disposable, they are ALL blessings!!!
Who will ensure that patients - the orphans will be happy in adoptive American families? US does not give such a guarantee. The United States does not give information about foster children are adopted by Americans. What will happen to these children if the Americans to adopt them? First ... Americans rarely adopt seriously ill children. A lot of advertising but in fact the number of such adoptions is very small. Secondly ..... where is the guarantee that the child will not die in the US after two years and will not be disassembled for organs for transplantation? The US Agency sent reports on foster children living only for 1-2 years in US . Then comes the silence and obscurity. What right has the United States to make a complaint to the Russia? Maybe the US made a huge amount of money for these children and now want to see how work the American money? NO! The United States did not transfer money to the children.
What can happen to these children in an American family that social services do not control?
Children of Tom and Debra Schmitz
10 children adopted by/in legal custody of and 7 children illegally in the "care" of Tom and Debbie Schmitz were abused by their adopters (they also had 1 bio child). For years the Schmitzes took in disabled and otherwise troubled children in their home and were part of an under-ground network of people taking in children from disrupted adoptions. As adherents of Attachment Therapy, they beat their children, locked them up in cagelike bunk beds, forcing one child to eat his own vomit; holding another child's head underwater as punishment; sitting on a girl and urinating on her; and hurling a wheelchair-bound girl into a swimming pool; placing a hose in a girl's mouth and turning on the water, and lancing a boil on another child with a box cutter as she screamed in pain; forcing children to dig what they were told were their own graves.
Seven children in the "care" of Tom and Debra Schmitz were illegally placed. At least: 2 were from China, 2 from Russia, 1 from Vietnam and 1 from Mexico.
Debra pleaded no contest to 14 counts of child abuse and one count of trafficking. She was sentenced to six months in jail and probation. Tom Schmitz case has been expunged. The Schmitz are now divorced.
Date: June 2004
Location: Trenton, Tennessee
in this house - horrors lived two Russian orphans -Disabled.
Of course, Americans can show successful adoptive families. Ok. The Russians may also show successful children's homes for children with special needs. What difference does it make? Russian social services systematically monitor the children's homes. The prosecutor's office monitors the children's homes. Volunteers from different organizations attend and supervise the children's homes. In the US, a very weak monitoring foster families where live Foreign foster children.
Свято-Софийский детский дом для детей-инвалидов: день первый -You Tube
Презентация Владимирского дома ребенка -You Tube
The parents of these babies were lied to instead of supported. So sad! Poor babies
1:02 That's an 18 year old man>!?!?!
The psycho-social factors play a big role in the production of growth hormone. No GH = No protein synthesis and it shows VERY clearly that these kids have been exposed to a shit ton of stress. Its really fuxking sad
who would've thought kids in this part of the world suffer neglect
I am glad that the mother finally took her back, but when she said she thought the hospital would take better care of her daughter, I felt little bitter, its her duty to check on her kid and see what's going on with her life, rather than just leave her and forget, which some mothers do.
Those doctors in that hospital flat out lied to the mother. Russia seems to have some sort of sick opposition towards people with disabilities. They've treated these children like they're a stigma on society. All these poor poor babies! They didn't ask for the conditions they have!
sad
This is terrible and horrifying. Still it just goes on nothing's being done about it.
I'm going to talk about life in United States. Because we need to know what will happen to these children in a foreign country if they are adopted. Heaven or suffering, death and dismemberment of organs for transplantation. they are our children and we have a right to know and participate in their lives. US does not provide the information and the ability to control the American adoptive families. So we can not allow adoptions to US citizens.
In the US killed 20 Russian children. Some of these children have experienced severe torture before death. Adoption is not possible if there is no regular monitoring and accurate information about the foster children in United States.
***** 21 Russian children have died in the United States. In 20 cases, the adoptive parents were responsible for the death of these children.
mihail able Why does everyone write only about the murders of children? Why nobody writes positive statistics adopted by Americans? Their gorazdno more! In
addition to sick children in Russian orphanages have no future, they
are doomed to live in state institutions all my life: first
spitsializirovanny orphanage, then a boarding house for the disabled or
the aged where they are sent to 18 years! Foreign adoption is the only chance these children do not exist yet, and live! In these boarding schools, they die, and in foster care (you in America), they live a full life: study, work ....
natasha25101990
Эти дети имеют врождённую патологию ЦНС . Они не будут здоровы в России и не будут бегать и прыгать в США . Нет способа вылечить их и социализировать .
Социализировать можно ребёнка с синдромом Дауна , но американцы редко усыновляют наших Даунят . Они усыновляют нормальных детей и вешают на них фальшивый диагноз RAD и FASD . Пичкают их психотропными препаратами , снижающими двигательную активность и в итоге получают инвалида которого можно
адаптировать к жизни в США . Каждый такой инвалид имеет опекуна который получает деньги на содержание этого инвалида . Пожизненного содержания .
Ребёнок с нормальным интеллектом станет идиотом и инвалидом в США . Ребёнок с синдромом Дауна будет иметь прогресс в США . Ради нескольких ( не боле 12 детей в год ) солнечных деток с синдромом Дауна мы имеем право продавать и гробить тысячи нормальных детей ? Американцы не усыновляют в России детей с глубоким поражением ЦНС
mihail able
Я говорю про детей не только с поражением ЦНС, но и с другими диагнозами. Например инвалиды (сироты), у нас они не могут учиться в ВУЗах, им не дают квартиры, они не могут работать, они всю жизнь живут в казенных стенах, при том, что интеллект сохранен! Просто нашей стране они не нужны, их проще спрятать от всех подальше. А в Америке делают операции, ставят протезы и они живут как и все! Конечно есть те, кто пытается извлечь выгоду и т.п. Но сколько американцев спасли наших детей?! И сколько русских погубило своих детей? Не Американцы их сделали сиротами, а мы! И брать больных детей не особо хотим, так почему бы им не дать шанс на жизнь и не важно будь то в Америке или любой другой стране, все лучше чем существовать у нас. А по поводу тех семей, где детей избивают, убивают, опять таки кто виноват? Мы сами продаем всем попало. Если бы проверяли их, то такого бы не было!
mihail able maxpark.com/community/2869/content/1741833 по поводу выгоды.
Дети усыновленные американцами: www.aif.ru/society/people/43341 , englishrussia.com/2007/12/19/adopted-russian-kids/ и это далеко не все! А теперь представьте сколько детей лишились этого, благодаря закону Димы Яковлева?
1:04 18 yr man and 15 yr girl are babies? Thats seriously disabled
The scenery of the orphanage looks deceiving
I THINK OF MYSELF AND ALL MA'KIAH CHILDREN BORN NELECTED AND ORPHANAGE.
This absolutely sickens me and makes me feel like ice, no country in today’s world should use such barbarism for innocent people with learning difficulties, it’s absolutely outrageous and horrendous
And YET they are allowed to be in the special Olympics with other European countries I think the Special Olympics community probably should look into countries not only in Russia but Eastern Europe, China,South Korea, Japan and eastern Asia to make sure that children in those countries aren't living like this etc.
It's disgusting! Nastia looks fine to me, and I bet she's not the only one. I can't believe that humans could do that to another human! There was hope for these children, but they decided to take it away. They have no right!
Thus us all good and well but what about the kids that don't thrive. Also who's going to pay for all of this? It would be great to help all but should thousands of dollars be spent on adults with the mind of an infant to have round the clock care. While healthy intelligent children are living in poverty.
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Trumps America is next for this kind of treatment.
Zionism is cancer
Shut up snowflake
i live at Developemental disability apartment in Rochester MN, they Rarely scrub the fridges here, have NEVER scrubbed the Main downstairs bathrooms toilet on the outside of it on the left and right side ! 1631 19th ave SE 55904, i would like too be Removed, live with a family, i'm 29 1/2 Male ! Mikhail FULLY functional, labeled with social disability.
I would live to work there
These poor children!! They didn't ask to be brought into the world for this!! Is this what Pro Life is all about??
I wonder what happens to physically and mentally healthy orphans? I hope the at the very least treat them like human beings.
Kevin, even if a young person in the orphanage system is basically healthy and mentally okay (all institutionalized children have some related issues, but...) to even be in the system they will be considered "retarded". This label tends to stay with them for life and make it very hard if not almost impossible to get a good basic education much less a higher education or decent work. There are a lot of very caring and loving people who work in the Russian orphanage system and some terrific people who volunteer with the kids, but the system and the administration of it are fundamentally flawed and many of the young people coming out of it end up in crime, sex work or taking their own life.
Hmm I guess it is a hard enough life for them.
It's probably not the best.
*Y’all don’t care about human rights. Get out of here.*
World's Last Moral Nation my arse...
No dam surprise it's Russia. Probably would be thriving in the US.
How can I help from the US?
Way to help ? The children have severe incurable diseases. Down syndrome is not as scary as the diagnoses of these children. The best care and the best food is not the salvation of these children. They eat mashed food because they can not chew. How can you help them? Vitamins, fruit and vegetable puree, natural fruit juices, baby creams, diapers. It is necessary to find out what they need at the moment. Maybe they do not have wheelchairs. Need to talk with the director of the orphanage.
Basic needs:
CARE:
- Diapers of all sizes (especially from 10 to 25 kg), absorbent diaper;
- Wet wipes, napkins, disposable handkerchiefs and toilet paper;
- Cotton swabs;
- Baby cream, cream for diaper, powder, cream of redness and pressure sores;
- Baby soap, baby shampoo;
- Children washing powder - automatic;
POWER:
- Fruit puree (apple, pear, banana and other fruits are not red);
- Juices for babies up to 1 year (not too red);
- Baby cookies ;
- Instant oatmeal.
For busy:
- Sketchbooks, office paper (the one with paint pencils);
- Colored pencils, gouache, ink for fingers, markers (6 colors) and markers wide;
- Clay;
- Colored paper, cardboard;
- Materials and literature for developing classes for children up to 4 years;
- Children's books for kids;
- Erasers, pencils, pens, tape, pencil sharpeners and other necessary detail.
In groups:
- Toys, especially educational (not soft! - Not suitable for sanitary standards);
- Highchairs for 2 - 3 years of age,
- High chairs ;
- Walkers wide (large footprint);
- Stroller for walks single and double (one seat in front of another);
- DVD-drives with the children's cartoon (stubby, Russian, for kids);
- CD-discs with nursery rhymes and fairy tales.
Orphanage for deeply mentally retarded children.
Address: Челябинск, Лазурная, 10а
Fax: +73517360817
Fax: +73517360917
Website: chddi.ru
MUZ "Children's House specialty"
МУЗ «Дом ребенка специализированный»
Address: Российская Федерация, Удмуртская Республика,
г. Глазов, 427621, ул. Буденного,17
dom-rebenka@glazov.net
But who is gonna pay for them ? You may brag about how sad it is, but are you gonna adopt 1 of those vegetables ? It will cost you a fortune and you can not work because the care for them takes too much time. Russia is a smart country, if a working mother gets a vegetable that needs 24/7 attention then she can not work anymore, she will ask the state for money but the vegetable will never return a dime, it can only eat, sleep and crawl
You got all wrong. You dont get a vegetable child. Children's growth is stunted from abandonment. And can be a vegetable from abuse and neglect. I know because I was one of them and have documentation to prove it.
And who are you to tell this story? Are you a child development specialist, psychologist, family therapist OR you are a political agent still trying to stamp Russia in dirt?
I am a social worker and KNOW how much abuse, neglect and even murder happen in North America at the hand of the PARENTS!! So, do not dump everything on Russia, but tell and SHOW what is going in YOUR country!
If you truly were a professional, you would not gossip but provide a constructive criticism and perhaps help these children!!
As of today Russia doesn't allow adaptions into the USA, as at least one of the adapted young children was murdered by "wonderful" American parents!!
It is unfair to blame the staff at these places though, one can only blame the system for under funding. Photos of children with disabilities on the floor sprawled out is not an indicator of neglect or abuse. Loads of children do that in the USA in fine facilities. It is part of the conditions that create sensory neural integration problems. The only alarming thing here is the rooms where they are immobile for long periods, but this is due to not having funding for hospital beds and bedding. Not having funding for appropriate lifts and chairs. The underweight is from not having the advanced formulas that other nations have available due to again low funding. it is up to more than the government to take care of disabled people and it is time for the Russian people to form disability groups that advocate and fund raise for people with disabilities. The government can only do part it is up to the people to be the leaders of their government. Human rights groups draw attention to human rights conditions, but advocacy groups should rise out of this and lead their people and government.
A lot of care givers/ staff were the ones abusing kids in the orphanages. I know this for a fact because I was one of the orphans in orphanage no. 12 in st. Petersburg russia where I and many other children were abused harshly daily. You can speak on matters you know nothing about. The stories people here about these orphanages are very true.
@@seerking I'm sad to hear that. So if you don't mind my asking, how did you transition out of an orphanage to living on your own? Is there a support system that helped you , or did you just have to do it alone?
I felt so sick at the first pictures.
But then,
In the back of my head I thought one of them might turn into an alien 👽
What the US wants? To Russian service gave terminally ill children in the family and pays money for the maintenance of these children? This is possible but many of these children do not even understand what has changed. Where is the guarantee that these children in the family will receive better care than in an orphanage? We know what the problems in the US foster families with such children. Some adoptive parents use these children as a way of earnings and the opportunity to give a chance to the native children to get an education. Lots of violence and neglect against these children.
The family is not a panacea for saving these children. No need to put pressure on Russia. Americans see well that these children receive good care. If there are problems with medication and treatment ..... let international organizations help. Do not be a hypocrite. In many countries, these children simply do not survive or are in appalling conditions (dirt, stench, poverty, lice, worms, etc.). It took only two years after the ban adoptions for Americans. Closed many Russian orphanages. Children left in the family. The process will continue. If the US wants to help financially ... let help.
You Tube Child Abuse in foster care PSA
You Tube FOSTER CARE = CHILD ABUSE.wmv
You Tube Shocking child abuse: Texas couple accused of locking their child in a dirty closet, starving him
You Tube Couple arrested for sexual abuse, neglect of children in foster care
One must have the prudence. Beggar family can not keep a sick child. In many cases, the children's home is a salvation for children.
Who did not live in poverty .... that it does not understand.
Family "happiness" and "homeliness" for African children.
You Tube Sam and Esther The San Damiano Foundation
You want to happen in Russia? Children are dying of hunger in poor families and you will look and shed false tears. Sick children do not need this "mercy" and a "sympathy"
Orphanage sometimes is necessary to prevent the suffering of children and do not let them die in the mud hunger poverty. That there was no need to save these children from the family of "happiness"
You Tube Sam and Esther Follow Up Story
You Tube Фонд "Лучик Детства" в Курганском доме ребенка 2013-2014
You Tube День защиты детей в Доме ребёнка.wmv izkurgana
First of all the parents should not leave their child behind whos gonna give their full heart anf take care of a special needs. Child
thank you for the video.... try to hide but children are not forgotten.