Twice a month, employees of Kharkiv criminal police juvenile service and staff of the Kharkiv Juvenile make common "attacks" on the subway station, train stations and other "cereal" places, searching for street children.Special Commission decides their fate: someone sends to boarding, someone - to shelters, and some - in the detention center.
According to the chief of the criminal police for juvenile Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kharkiv region police colonel Boris Mikhailovich Radko, 90 percent of vagrant children - from disadvantaged families: "They are trying to become independent and break free of the often unbearable situation at home, and get even more dependentthe laws of the streets and the "leader" juvenile "flock."To us in the reception center leads the child hates the whole world, and sometimes it is very difficult to warm his soul. "
I expected to see a mini-mini-prison of criminals: the iron bars on the windows, intense views of people in uniform with batons and peace-vezdegulyayuschie cockroaches.And I saw ... first new gate with a bell, followed by clean sidewalks with manicured flower beds of roses of different varieties, a small chapel and an impressive two-story building the size of the Western European type.
This seemingly prosperous background rather strange looked ragged young man of 18, sitting near the gate directly to the asphalt and obviously something to wait for.I realized that my plans to go unnoticed collapsed when she heard a voice say slightly inebriated phrase: "Call the hostess!Tell me I'm Serge!Tell me I'm waiting for her. "
Well, Sergei waited, and I learned that a reception center for minors Affairs of Ukraine in Kharkiv region.Built year ago on the money sponsors and the Interior Ministry complex analogues in Ukraine does not have.It is now often call in police chiefs from other regions of Ukraine and even in Moscow, to see and learn.Every day in the receiver can contain up to 50 children who were examined for admission to the infirmary, wash, give clean clothes and food.The head of the institution Tatiana Tkachenko said that teenagers psychologists, inspectors prevention educators.A total of 22 state employees.The teachers spend with their children talk, teach reading, writing and mathematics.There is a TV with an extensive video library.But no bars on the windows, officers in police uniform friendly smile.Boris said that they are trying to build a relationship with the guys on trust and kindness.
I do not know how to deal with the fact that the child can feel someone needs, complete and truly free, where he was officially deprived of this freedom.The paradox - "in the wild" for these children want to come back again in the cozy 'imprisonment. "And, as it turned out on the street waiting for Sergei - example.
... wife of 16 years.Now he is the most senior in the detention center.The parents drank heavily and a 12 years old boy left home.Thus began his life romantic traveler.In Ukraine, there is probably no shelter wherever he went.He swears that he never stole nothing and earned a living alms or washing cars.Strange, but I believe him.In the receiver he was brought from Belgorod (Eugene went to Moscow) and now sent to his native Dnepropetrovsk.
Vadim also "transit" and also from Dnepropetrovsk.Boy with beautiful naive eyes.He told me that he went to Moscow with her mother to clean cars.It's the clean, and my mother turned to prostitution ... vengeance.Sorry, Vadimka that write about your mom the truth, because you told Mom you have the best, but ... you still can not read these lines.Eleven-year-boy never went to school and he does not know what kind of meaning have black marks on paper.Child decided to send to Grandma.
Well, the 13-year-old Maxim has a professional thief with experience.Moreover, with a particular specialization in non-ferrous metals.Boy smart and developed only in the family - problems.At the receiver, he really likes, but for a journalist (I mean for me) he still found a "serious" complaint to the authorities: "Cookie different give too much!Tired!Very zakormili! "While the Maxim lived here until the results of the review of his case.
Soon Kharkiv detention center will be consecrated, and the chapel will be a priest - Father Peter.Now the children are in the room with the dome simply "consult" or "ask".The trust God, but in their own way.
These words were spoken by a decade of a boy standing near the icon:
- God, when we stole a kiosk sausage, bread and other foods, and eat it yourself, you have helped us.So you have.But when we planned to rob the store, and we did not succeed, we are waiting for the prison ... you did not help us.So, you do not have?
a while the child stared at the icon, and then answered his own question:
- You are, I know.You have, because I need to be sure to find a mom ...
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According to Article 7 of the Law of Ukraine "On the Bodies and Services for Minors' Affairs and Special Institutions for Minors" reception center for minors temporarily(no more than 30 days) includes children of 3 categories:
- committed at the age of 11 to 14 years of socially dangerous act, if there is an immediate need for their isolation (by decision of the investigator sanctioned by the prosecutor or by the court);
- heading according to the decision of the court in special facilities for minors;
- left their own special training and vospitalnye institutions where they were.
Besides, Kharkiv prison for juveniles received the status of transit that allows the institution to hold another category of minors between the ages of 3 and 18 years - have left without permission the place of residence and unaccompanied stationed on the territory of CIS countries.
on materials publication: Ukraine News .
