This is the father who abused and held his daughter (8) in a bathtub: Call police immediately if you see him

Uros Pasajlic; Photo: MUP

Members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) are looking for Uros Pasajlic (38) from Belgrade, on suspicion that he committed criminal acts of domestic violence, neglect and abuse of a minor, and violation of family obligations.

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We are pleading with citizens to, if they recognize him from the photo or have any information about his movements, inform the police by calling 192 or 011-2751-630.

The 8-year-all was enslaved by her father Uros Pasalic for years in an apartment in Zvezdara, a Belgrade  municipality. Telegraf has learned that the child was found curled up in a bathtub and disoriented.

"Two female police officers broke into the apartment and found the girl in the bathtub. She was curled up and disoriented. She could barely speak, and it is still unknown if she was allowed outside. There were several bags of snacks and the remains of mouldy food that the girl was eating in the bathtub. Also, there is a photograph showing a man and a girl, who are assumed to be Uros and the child," a source from the case told us.

The source added that the child was given to the father after the mother ended up in a psychiatric institution, because she, under the influence of narcotics, attacked her own mother.

Four days ago, the deputy public prosecutor from the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade was informed by police officers that Ivana L. (47) had come to the Palilula police station and reported violence perpetrated against her by her common-law husband Uros Pasajlic. The woman had visible injuries.

Namely, the deputy public prosecutor gave an order to police officers to forcibly enter the apartment, since no one was opening the door. The suspect was not in the apartment, but an 8-year-old girl was found, who was immediately sent for medical examinations and placed in the Home for Neglected Children, from where she was transferred to the Children's Clinic for further detailed examinations, since it was established that the child was malnourished and neglected.

On the order of the deputy public prosecutor, a search was immediately launched for Uros Pasalic, on suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of domestic violence, unlawful deprivation of liberty, as well as the criminal offense of neglect and abuse of a minor and violation of family obligations in relation to the child.

So far, the prosecution has found out that the girl was given to the father by a court, considering that the mother was previously a drug addict, and that the father was found to be a suitable parent.

After Uros Pasajlic is arrested, he will be detained as ordered by the duty deputy public prosecutor on March 24, and he will be questioned within the legal timeframe regarding the circumstances of the criminal acts he is charged with.

The prosecution will then conduct evidentiary proceedings, about which the public will be informed in a timely manner.

(Telegraf.rs)