What does the final report on the abuse of 5-year-old Lipjan say?

This report was admitted late Wednesday afternoon by the Social and Family Services Inspection Division.

Minister Hoti confirmed to Kosovo that in the findings of this report, the QPS, but other institutions, is found to be guilty in this case, and therefore warned punitive measures for all who have been counted for the appropriate failure of the case.

I've received the report surprisingly today. One of the findings of the report says that in the 2023 Court's ruling, he has placed the Centre for Social Affairs for Family Monitoring in relation to children. So, he's assigned the Center for Social Affairs to report to parents about their mental health, which the QPS don't deal with mental health, are the Mental Health Centers, not the QPS. Anyway, it's under investigation by the Prosecutor. What else we can take is a proposal to the mayor of the Lipjan municipality that puts all the staff of the Center for Social Affairs to discipline that's in Lipjan tomorrow, because today it's out of time and consider whether they've really followed the” measures, he added.

Minister Hoti in this interview has also been asked about the other violations this report has listed, for which it is reserved in response.

I can't say all the violations it claims because it's under investigation by the prosecution. But, I tell you what the report says, one is that inter-ministerial issues, the problem is not only with the QPS, but also with several other institutions. There are violations by CPS municipal officials or neglect, I can confirm that it is, but more I cannot speak in this regard. These two actions will be taken by me, us, the request to invite Donika Grovall to invite this co-ordination group and the second to be proposed to the mayor to take disciplinary measures to officials there. The license to the chief of the QPS, the random manager, we've prepared and we're here to pull it off, but for such a thing we need interministerial co-ordination and maybe even the prosecutor... not the centre, the random manager and the chief of the QPS if 100 percent prove they haven't taken the action the court imposed on him in 2023<1>, Hoti said.

He warned that the inter-ministerial group would be invited, and would also be required by the Lipjan chairman to impose disciplinary measures on the staff of the centre.

“Yes, the report has come to me, you know this case is under investigation even by the Kosovo Prosecutor, so I will be heavily booked for the report's findings. Two things he can tell us we're going to do is propose to the national co-ordinator, which in this case is Donika Grovalla calling me the meeting of the inter-ministerial co-ordination group for protection from domestic violence. Because, I mentioned earlier the Department for Social Services (QPS), the policies for them we make. But the Mental Health Centers are within the Ministry of Health. Kosovo police are within the Interior Ministry's framework, so there is a need for inter-ministerial co-ordination in this case to see what action to take and where the problem is” correctly, he said.

For that decision, Hoti said they are pending steps that are being taken by other institutions.

“We are on hold because there are also several steps that the Inspectorate takes, in this case they are undertaking a verification with the Kosovo Police. Sometimes I'm saying I don't want to show more details in this report, because I don't know what it can do to me afterwards. But now that co-ordination is done with the Kosovo Police and that's verified what I said, yes. I can't not take because a child is in the hospital today, with limbs damaged, because of someone. So someone here has to take responsibility”, he ends up.

A month ago, the five-year-old event has shocked the country. Because of parental mistreatment, he received medical treatment at Intensive Medical Care.

For his two parents, under Pristina's Constitutional Court decision, the detention measure was scheduled. Meanwhile, the six children in this family have been taken care of by the Lipjan Centre for Social Affairs. /Kp/