In more than 50 institutions hidden in remote areas of Romania, innocent children are locked away like condemned prisoners, Mr. Jarriel said in one of two reports broadcast in 1990. These are not the orphanages seen before on American television. These are state-run asylums shrouded in secrecy. This is where children with physical or mental defects are banished by a government which has branded them worthless.
Ms. Tomlin recalled: We found children in cages, with their heads shaved, four to a crib, some in straitjackets. It was like Auschwitz. The children were dying from malnutrition and fixable things.
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