The immorality of the teleseries 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 in there.

I worked in a home for 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 with all the insults on these adolescents and the caring staff. Ex-professional staff members can easily say that it is unjust, especially for any other citizen who has never worked in such an environment and for the residents themselves. It is unfair on the residents to portray them with a “criminal” type of behaviour. These are young people like others going through their adolescent period, where everyone’s behaviour is partly rebellious, which is normal at this age. Persons who might have not sensed the feelings of female adolescents in a sheltered environment may portray them as “prostitutes”, “criminals”, “social convicts”!

In a small country such as Malta there is only one home for sheltered female adolescents. It is a fact that this is nobody’s home except that of the same adolescents who live there.

A shameful drama, with a tragedy!

Loredana Gatt

Ex-Residential Social Worker

Gudja