AD : "No evidence of abuse in Eritrean church Rotterdam '

From: Semere Asmelash <semereasmelash_at_ymail.com_at_dehai.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 13:32:55 +0000 (UTC)

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"No evidence of abuse in Eritrean church '

There is no criminal investigation into the Eritrean Orthodox Church in Rotterdam. Reported that the Public Prosecutor (OM) on Monday. According to the public, there is no evidence of abuse that warrant a criminal investigation.

The Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) made ​​it clear in early January that unaccompanied minor asylum seekers no longer had to go to church services of the Eritrean Orthodox Church in Rotterdam. A spokesman for the COA would not say what was the cause, only that there are serious signs ,, '' had come. There would be ,, a large number of pregnancies of Eritrean young women (17-22).

Teklit Girmazion Chairman of the Board of the Rotterdam church said in a reaction to the Reformed Daily, shocked by the signals on possible abuses. He would have had no contact with the COA, but open to a conversation.

Girmazion recognize the image of a large number of pregnant young women do not. Abuse according to the spokesman could not have taken place in the church. The church council'd rather be, after complaints about nuisance, have decided that night no more visitors are allowed to stay in the rectory and church. There young people would do sometimes at church the night at home.
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Minor Eritrean asylum seekers no longer have to stay away from the services of the Eritrean Orthodox Church in Rotterdam. However, these young people are still ,, emphatically monitored. "

That said a spokesman of the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) Tuesday afternoon. He thus responded to the statement by the public prosecutor in Rotterdam that there are no grounds for a criminal investigation into the church because of possible abuse.

The prosecution launched an investigation after signals about possible abuses that had passed the COA. The COA relied on reports among other staff, Refugees and guardianship agency Nidos. The latter was also involved in the measure unaccompanied minor refugees do not make more visits to the church.

According to the COA spokesman is still spoken with Eritrean youths residing in the shelter, but he can not make substantive statements about it. The measure to keep them away from the Rotterdam church was not premature, according to the spokesman. "In case of suspected abuse we take action first and then we'll sort out the matter further." He also indicated that the OM only one of the parties to whom the worrying signals have been reported around the Eritrean group.


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