Channel 4 of BBC broadcasted Kate Blewett’s Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children, informs on its website the British newspaper Telegraph. The film contains “90 minutes of undiluted horror”.

Anyone familiar with the Romanian orphanage scandals of the early Nineties will have stared in shocked disbelief that nearly 20 years on precisely the same pattern of appalling cruelty and neglect is being repeated in another former Communist state. The chief difference is that Bulgaria is already a member of the European Union, comments the newspaper.

Kate Blewett filmed for nine months at a “social care home” for physically and mentally disabled children in northern Bulgaria.

It is no exaggeration to say that most domestic animals are treated better than these unfortunate boys and girls, who get little treatment and no education or stimulation, and are condemned to rock silently and slowly waste away in body and mind, continues the newspaper. At times it was impossible to believe the cynicism of the staff. At others, it was impossible not to turn away from the pain and suffering on display. “Nothing on television this year has brought me closer to tears”, writes the article's author Gerard O'Donovan.

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