Judgment concerning the Republic of Moldova
In the case of V.I. v. the Republic of Moldova the Court found several violations of the Convention.
The case concerned the placement of an orphan with a perceived mild intellectual disability in a psychiatric hospital against his will. He was under the care of the State at the time. At the end of what was supposed to be a three-week placement, he was left there for another four months, with nobody coming to visit or fetch him and being treated with neuroleptics and anti-psychotics.
The Court found that the existing Moldovan legal framework fell short of the State’s duty to establish and apply effectively a system providing protection to intellectually disabled persons in general, and to children without parental care in particular, against serious breaches of their integrity.