The immorality of the television series FIVE06 is giving a false perception to the public and a stabbing knife to the female adolescents who live in a sheltered environment and to the other caring staff or ex-staff members who work there.
I worked in a home of female adolescents as a care worker and then as a professional residential social worker. With all the responsibility of an ex-residential social worker I can state that it is immoral and irresponsible to deliver a drama full of insults towards these adolescents and the other caring staff.
Ex-professional staff members can easily clarify that it is unjust, especially for any other citizen who has never worked in such environment and for the residents themselves, as this is being shot from a deceiving lens.
It is unfair on the residents to portray such adolescents with a ‘criminal’ type of behaviour. These are young people like any others going through their adolescent period where everyone’s behaviour is somehow rebellious as part of the normal path of life. Persons who might have not sensed the feelings of female adolescents in a sheltered environment may portray them as ‘prostitutes’, ‘criminals’, ‘social convicts’ and other labels that they are being gleaned from in this drama. A professional way to deceive the public!
In a small country such as Malta there is only one home for sheltered female adolescents, thus one can easily refer to it. It is a fact that this is nobody’s home except that of the same adolescents who live in. An intrusion in one’s own property is a criminal offence. Private affairs in private homes are nothing to enjoy divulging except for unprofessional persons. Besides, it is a shocking event to take shots from a scenario resembling the residential environment of these female’s home.
All it missed in order to be complete is the façade and the name of the home being shown in close-up!
A shameful drama, with a tragedy!

Loredana Gatt
Gudja

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