The children’s rights agency has called for removal of public pictures of the freed 9-year-old girl, who was kidnapped on Sunday, in efforts to prevent exposing her to further trauma.
State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service
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Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says politicians should be very careful when commenting on actions of state institutions amid heated public discussions over a video showing a child being forcibly taken away from his mother.
The swift process of returning the abducted baby from Russia to Lithuania has come as a surprise, says the head of the State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service.
Lithuania's State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service has received some 28,600 reports on possible violations of children's rights over the past year, and almost half of them were confirmed.
Around 200 people on Tuesday held a rally outside Lithuania's parliament over children taken from families.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says children's rights protection officials "overdid things" in dealing with a situation in Kaunas where two young children were taken away from their parents over violence suspicions.
Officials from the Lithuanian State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service have decided to return two young children, who were taken away from their family over domestic violence suspicions, to their father.
