Many serious questions are raised by the "wrong" recording of the number of children who were accommodated in the Ark. From the complaints, the official statements about 364 "invisible" children while the "Ark of the World", states that it hosts 500 children, in the official documents appear only 136 of them, stresses the competent Deputy Minister, Domna Michailidou, which leaves spikes for interests.
"136 children have 10% of the country's children. The 500 that they declare how does it follow? We sent the Ark the documents and then changed the individual family rehabilitation plan for 60% of the children in it because it had made "wrong" declarations."
Six out of ten children were declared "wrong" by the Ark, says the deputy minister in charge.
"It is now obvious , there are also interests in child protection. Three out of four structures in Greece are private."
"It is now obvious , there are interests in child protection." Three out of four structures in Greece are private. Three out of four adoptions that take place come out of public structures," adds Domna Michaelidou.
Two preliminary investigations are being investigated simultaneously at the "Ark of the World" structure in Volos. The first began last August after the anonymous complaint of a former educator for abuse and beatings of children and the second a few days ago in order to investigate whether criminal responsibilities and offences arise. The investigations are now spreading to Ark structures in Athens, Chios, Epirus, Kalamata and Volos.
A mother of three will testify to the prosecutor within the week for what, according to her, her children suffered in the Ark.
Father Antonios insists that all the complaints constitute a bad construction that he will testify as they are all lies.
Father Anthony in... hagiography as Noah with the elder
When Father Anthony founded the Ark of the World in 1998 no one could have imagined that 24 years later, his life and fortune would be of concern to the authorities, with allegations of abuse and financial irregularities snowballing.
However, children and former employees of the facility, who accuse both him and close associates of abusive behavior, speak of a man who, in the process, lost his purpose and operated himself and the elder with hubris and "papal arrogance."
He wanted his "children" to worship him as God and praise him for the "plank" of salvation he offered them.
He even went so far as to request a hagiography starring himself and his wife. In the sixth-floor chapel in the Colonus structure, the central wall is adorned with an iconography, which depicts Father Anthony in the role of Noah leading his "children" along with the animals to the Ark.
At his side, also in biblical form, is the elder who helps Father Anthony to lead their "children" to the "Promised Land" as shown in the photo.
Former inmates of the Facility describe how during their regular church service they would venerate and embrace the hagiography of Father Anthony along with the other icons of the Church.[/B]
Former inmates of the Facility describe how during their regular church service they would venerate and embrace the hagiography of Father Anthony along with the other icons of the Church. The hagiographer has depicted the figure of the founder of the NGO, just like Christ and the Saints of the Church
But without a halo. It is, perhaps, the only thing missing from the image of the "Messiah"
An image that came to dispel the "tsunami" of accusations against the Ark.
Father Anthony lived and behaved like a "Messiah" as he asked the Ark's educators and children to submit to his commands.
His third child with Stamatia Georgantis was named Noah, perhaps as a sign of the role he had assumed.
At the same time, another child, eight years older than his son, accused him of being a victim of indecency and humiliating behavior inside the "Ark" the father had built for him.
Parents complain that they have not seen their children, who are accommodated in Ark of the World structures, for two years.The organization's finances are becoming "paper thin" as questions have been raised about the management of millions arriving in the form of donations.
I haven't seen my children for 2 years
Parents of children housed at the Volos shelter complain that they have not seen them for almost two years and that those in charge of the shelter have disappeared when they insisted on requesting to meet their children.
"At one point the child said to me mummy daddy is in jail, when will he come out to be with me, I asked him "why mummy what happened?" and he said I'm not having a good time, the children and the ladies are hitting me. Then they stopped communicating, they separated the children."
According to one mother, her child also told her, "Mummy at night I hide food under my pillow, I can't get enough." "I haven't seen my children since then, I don't know if they are alive and well."
"Maybe the children have been given away, they don't let us see them, the mother is not allowed to see them, I don't know what the reason is, for 1.5 2 years this has been happening," complains a father.
While a friend of the 19-year-old who was a victim of lewdness by a member of the Ark of the World in Chios reports : "He told me one year when we started he slowly put his hand through my pants, he made me take off his socks, sometimes I took off his clothes, he took off my pants and caressed me".
Source: protothema.gr
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