Minister of Social Security and Labor Monika Navickienė Delfi TV said in the program “Iš ššenje” that the child’s condition is improving.
“As far as I know, the girl’s condition is improving, the girl is recovering, of course, it’s probably too early to draw final conclusions, but I want to thank the doctors for their titanic efforts that helped the girl hang on to life,” – Delphi the minister says in the show.
The mother of the suspect woman spoke for the first time in the TV3 show “Priesh srovė” and showed the last messages she received from her daughter after the accident.
“She just wrote the last message that she couldn’t talk. Apparently, she was very sick, then I called her, wrote again, she didn’t write back. Then I found out that the officers took away the phone,” said the grandmother in the “Priješ srovė” program.
The woman showed the messages she received from her daughter. The woman adheres to the only version – if someone injured the baby, it was not her daughter.
The messages, as the woman informed, were quite fragmentary.
“That something bad happened. That you don’t even have the words…”, the grandmother said and says that at that time she did not clearly understand what had happened or who could be to blame. In the last messages, the woman informed that the girl will undergo an operation, and she is waiting outside the door of the operating room.
The suspect’s mother says she has only seen her daughter’s new friend a few times and claims that her daughter became more withdrawn after becoming friends with the new friend.
“When she got together with him, she changed, she became more closed,” the woman assures, adding that she heard a lot of bad things about her daughter’s new friend.
“Bad news is spreading about him, that he is a drug addict, a dealer… He didn’t have a job, but he had a good car, an apartment,” the grandmother told the show.
The woman responds only with good words about her daughter and assures that she does not understand what could have happened.
“I knew she (the woman’s daughter) wouldn’t do anything stupid, I trusted her. She is such a good person, you would agree and see how kind a person she is,” the grandmother told the show.
“I can’t sleep because of these thoughts for the third week, they don’t allow me to see my daughter, and the investigators don’t say anything,” says the woman in the TV3 program “Prieš srovė”.
“There is a suspicion that he may not have stuck his nails in himself. He puts all the blame on her. I think he’ll be nailed. No one will convince me otherwise,” the grandmother told the show.
Delphi reminds that the Minister of Social Security and Labor was beaten up in Raseiniai because of a two-year-old girl Monika Navickienė formed a special investigation team.
She will find out what services were or were not available and provided to the family. “If there is even the slightest thing in the algorithm that will be noticed by the researchers, the purity group, we will do it immediately. At the beginning, you need to assess the situation,” the politician told LRT radio.
The police in Raseiniai had detained her 19-year-old mother and her 22-year-old friend due to a possible serious health disorder of a two-year-old girl.
The police had no previous reports of domestic violence. Both individuals have no previous convictions. Šiauliai Chambers of the Šiauliai District Court granted the prosecutor’s request and allowed the arrest of these two suspects. The 19-year-old mother was arrested for one month, her friend for two months.
The minister emphasized that she was shocked by the news about the incident in Raseiniai, she called the incident a difficult and painful reality. “We have to understand that no system, even a very well-funded one, ensures that there are no individual criminals who find a way to brutally attack a child,” said M. Navickienė.
The Criminal Code the person who seriously injured or made a minor sick is subject to imprisonment from two to twelve years.
The Prime Minister also responded
Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, reacting to the tragedy in Raseiniai, when a two-year-old girl was brutally beaten during the festive period, regrets that it is never possible to be 100%. to prevent such crimes. However, according to her, the institutions are doing their job, identifying possible risks and protecting the absolute majority of children from similar disasters.
“I would see the need to emphasize that no matter how painful the event actually is, and certainly there has not been a case of such cruelty since the Matuk tragedy, but unfortunately, we cannot say that such cases have not happened in general.” That is why special laws were adopted, and the entire procedure for social assistance for families was changed,” I. Šimonytė told LRT radio.
“And, of course, you can never be 100 percent. protected in any society that crimes, no matter how grievous, will not occur in it, or that there will simply be only good news. And such cases still happen,” she added.
However, the Prime Minister points out that 80 children were provided with a safe environment during the festive weekend and were protected from possible threats.
On December 26 of this year, a pre-trial investigation was started at the Raseiniai District Police Commissariat of Šiauliai County Chief Police Commissariat regarding severe health impairment. On Christmas day, a 2-year-old girl was brought from Raseiniai Hospital to Kaunas Clinics of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Hospital due to bodily injuries.
After establishing that the little girl may have been abused, a pre-trial investigation was started. Šiauliai District Court allowed the arrest of the mother and her roommate suspected of beating the two-year-old. The mother was sentenced to one month’s detention by court decision, her friend was detained for two months.
Currently, all possible versions of the event are being investigated, and the procedural steps of the pre-trial investigation are being carried out. The Criminal Code stipulates imprisonment from two to twelve years for someone who seriously injures or makes a minor sick.
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