Policemen in Larissa, capital of Thessaly, could not believe their eyes when they entered a flat in the center of the city on Saturday afternoon following a prosecutor’s order. Responding to neighbor’s reports concerning a child’s cries from within the flat, police entered to find a young girl, aged six, living under difficult conditions.
Locked in the flat by her mother, the young girl lived in squalor and stench amid body wastes, rotten food and cockroaches running around the floor.
The police did not find external wounds but took the girl to the Pediatric Clinic of the General Hospiral of Larissa to examine and feed her. The child was taken from the mother’s care and an insitution is being sought to take care of her.
The girl’s mother, aged 32, said that the welfare subsidy she received was not enough to take care of her and her child. Having no other help, she took on a job at a nearby factory to make ends meet, leaving her daughter alone at home to fend for herself.
