Children are being abandoned on Greece's streets by their poverty-stricken families who cannot afford to look after them any more.

Youngsters are being dumped by their parents who are struggling to make ends meet in what is fast becoming the most tragic human consequence of the Euro crisis.

It comes as pharmacists revealed the country had almost run out of aspirin, as multi-billion euro austerity measures filter their way through society.

Athens' Ark of the World youth centre said four children, including a newborn baby, had been left on its doorstep in recent months.

One mother, it said, ran away after handing over her two-year-old daughter Natasha.

Four-year-old Anna was found by a teacher clutching a note that read: 'I will not be coming to pick up Anna today because I cannot afford to look after her. Please take good care of her. Sorry.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085163/Children-dumped-streets-Greek-parents-afford-them.html#ixzz1jHYw0RaD

 

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Despicable.

 

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from everything I know about greek people, this doesn't surprise me one bit...I bet 90% of the children left are girls too

LOL @ European Socialism!!

 

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the young and the weak are the first to go


this was the plot to the movie chitty chitty bang bang

 

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"That's a damn shame. Folks throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that."

 

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and what exactly do you know about Greek People?

From what I know of what you posted you seem prejudiced to insinuate such, I would hazard a guess that a lot more people are dumped here in the USA per capita even. In addition you are a fool if you believe one story wholeheartedly as the truth. Greeks have had negative population growth for decades and have been overrun by eastern european (Orthodox) immigrants, with more coastline that the USA they can't make their borders secure and have been pressured by the USA for decades to let Muslims fleeing the oppression of former Yugoslavia from what is now called Macedonia, into Greece.

All that said, I am sure this is happening though without the details of their national origin, and without the credibility of an organization that doesn't have a history of fabricating stories to sell more papers, I have a hard time accepting this as the unvarnished truth.

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Here is the scoop on our problem like this Illinois.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How prevalent is newborn abandonment in the United States?

According to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, 32 to 34 infants were found abandoned each year from 1997-1999. Of these, approximately 20 infants are abandoned in the first 24 hours of their life.
According to a CNN review of FBI statistics, nearly five infants under the age of one are killed in the U.S. each week.
The federal government and most states do not keep statistics specific to abandoned newborns. There is presently no way to clearly determine what portion of infant deaths are due to abandonment.

Why did Illinois pass the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act?
Passage of the Act addresses two important issues:

It significantly reduces the risk that a newborn will be abandoned in a perilous environment that may result in death and,
It protects parents who feel they have no option other than abandonment, but who compassionately deliver their newborn to a safe shelter."

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In addition this tabloid paper, think National Enquirer has a habit of making up stories.

see this complaint...

http://www.pcc.org.uk/cases/adjudicated.html?article=NzUzOQ==?oxidtrh3ejilugnrmioe81q99aii2

 

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aside from their fondness to piitb?

I must be greek on the lower half then.

 

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didn't the Grease soccer team pay $200+ million for a player a few months ago

 

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