The Polish couple that for several weeks begged on the streets of the country will have to comply with a number of requirements to regain custody of their two small daughters.
Since last Friday, the National Board of Children (PANI) took the minors under their custody due to alerts circulating in social networks.
Apparently, the Europeans begged with the girls, who are in poor health conditions.
Fanny Cordero, PANI spokeswoman, explained that one of them has anemia and the other one has stomach problems. Both, aged between 18 months and three years old, were in poor conditions.
The foreigners have a legal immigration status, since they have left for Nicaragua and entered again on several occasions.
They were seen in public places of Liberia and Santa Cruz de Guanacaste. At the beginning, they said to ask for money to buy plane tickets to return to their country. However, this version is in doubt.
At first they assured that they were not begging and that someone gave them the resources. They had their legal immigration status and the girls looked good. There was no risk situation for further intervention. A family had welcomed them. There was a warning that they could not expose the girls to the streets,”
said Cordero, about the first approach taken in June.
With an alert that the Europeans were still begging with the girls in the park of Santa Cruz, the PANI intervened on Friday and, after a medical analysis, it was verified that the minors were not well.
They were deteriorating. They had cough, anemia and stomach complications from the type of life they had. We take the protective measures while mom and dad understand that they cannot have their daughters begging,”
said the official.
The PANI is working directly with the parents, since the primary objective is that the girls recover and can return in good conditions.
Their health is in danger and the law empowers us to take actions. The idea is not to keep them. The measures range from warnings to parents for them to enroll in the family academy, to the most drastic: the separation from the girls,”
said Cordero.
The measure could extend up to six months.