Wow....sounds like a Dickens novel!
Rumania has yet to get over the damage the Ceaucescus did to society there. This is really grim news.
I didn't intend to downplay the horribleness (is that even a word?) of the situation. I can't even imagine what life was like for those poor kids. It just struck me that it sounded Dickeness.
I didn't mean you to think I was criticising, I agree with you. I suppose in a way that Rumania has been so stunted in terms of societal development that it may as well be the nineteenth century there.