The first images of the 6-year-old child from Gorj sold by his parents in Germany for 8,000 lei. What will happen to the boy?

The child is now in the custody of the Romanian authorities and will most likely arrive in the country within the next 24 hours. A Secretary of State personally went to Germany to talk with the authorities there and solve this serious case. DIICOT also got involved and opened a file for trafficking minors, while the boy’s brothers were taken over by DGASPC.

The first images of the 6-year-old child from Gorj sold by his parents in Germany for 8,000 lei

According to Antena 3, the young man will join his brothers in foster care after he arrives in the country. At the moment it is not known what was the fate of the child during these 4 months since it was fraudulently crossed the border by a German citizen. According to the cited source, the authorities in our country have asked the German Ministry of Justice for more information about this case.

The parents most likely asked for 8,000 lei for their child, but it is unclear if the boy was trafficked by pedophiles or simply bought by a German citizen who wanted a child. It is certain that the investigation is now underway, while the family minister reacted and asked for light to be shed on this case.

Investigators believe that the German citizen used a fake power of attorney to get the child out of the country and, moreover, allegedly bribed the notary and customs officials to complete his plan. It seems that the DGASPC representatives were closely monitoring the child’s family, so they noticed that he was missing during a routine visit.

According to the cited source, the child was sold sometime in December, but only now has the case come to the attention of public opinion. “No matter how much pressure there is from the respective citizen, the foreign citizen, on the Romanian authorities, yes, I can confirm that what happened is terrible and I can assure you from the Romanian state that that child will have to go home.

We are already taking all the steps and there is a file instrumented by DIICOT and I want to congratulate them for their professionalism, dedication and involvement, equally”, said the Minister of the Family, Natalia Intotero. The minister assured that this child will return to the country, after which this case will be elucidated.

In 2019, a woman from Cluj sold her child for 2,100 lei and received a suspended sentence

“Also, DGASCP Gorj notified DIICOT. Today, being with the caravan for the prevention of drug consumption, other forms of addiction, violence, bullying, in Târgu Jiu, during this morning, together with the director of DGASPC Gorj, but also with psychologists from the institution, I went and visited the brothers to the child who is now in Germany.

I made sure they were well taken care of. I actually spent quite a long time talking with the foster carers, but also with the two younger brothers“, added the minister. Paradoxically, in our country there is no law criminalizing the sale of children, as a court in Cluj showed in 2019.

Then, a woman who had sold her child was sentenced to 2 years in prison with suspension, but not for selling the little one, but for forging documents. In that case, the mother had received 2,100 lei for the child, and the buyer was a man who really wanted to be a father. In fact, he defended himself in court and said that it was only about “an abbreviated adoption”.

According to the reasons for the decision of the Cluj Court of Appeal, the two were sentenced to imprisonment because the act could not be classified as child trafficking, given that it could not be proven that someone wanted to exploit that child. “In the absence of an express legislation of this act of selling the child to another person, even by obtaining some material benefits by the child’s guardian, but in the absence of the purpose of exploiting the child – which must also be proven – the court cannot retain the commission any criminal act“, then the representatives of the judiciary in Romania sent.