I don't know if anyone has heard of this, but there are orphanages and mental institutions in Serbia where the patients are treated horribly. In fact, they aren't "treated" at all.
They are left in metal cribs their entire life where they can't develop or grow.
""I looked at the crib and saw a child who looked to be seven or eight years old," a MDRI investigator said, recalling a visit to the so-called Special Institution for Children and Youth in the southeast Serbian village of Stamnica. "The nurse told me he was 21 and had been at the institution for eleven years ... He has never been taken out of the crib in eleven years." "
This is utter injustice at its worst and it bothers me that I can do nothing at all to stop it, nothing.
It's just complete suffering day in and day out. Imagine laying in a crib your entire life, knowing nothing else other than your metal cage, having no knowledge of anything, just existing, not even knowing that people live lives, completely ignorant about how horribly your caretakers are mistreating you.
Some of these children and adults are barely fed and some are even dehydrated and many are left to defecate and urinate on themselves.
"Once committed, they are likely to remain in "special institutions" for life. "
The majority of them are irreparably damaged, so even if they were suddenly freed, they wouldn't be able to adapt. Their lives are pretty much over. This is bothering me, I can't find peace. I won't sleep tonight. I can't save them. What can be done, really? Things like this can be prevented by closing these institutions down, but what about the ones that are permanently damaged? There's no solution. Do we "put them out of their misery"? I don't know, it's so horrible I can't think about it without shivvering, I don't know what to do.
I can't save them.
Here is the site I got the quotes from:
Disabled Serbians in Harsh Conditions - TIME
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