Absurd court decision orders Hungarian mother in coma to pay child support

A Hungarian woman has been in a coma for 8 years. A few months ago, her ex-husband sued her for not paying child support.

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As Blikk reported in August 2021, Katalin Varga has been in a coma for eight years. After an operation to remove a benign brain tumour, a bacteria attacked her body, and she went into a vegetative state. What is more, the hospital where she contracted the bacteria did not even treat her with antibiotics for a whole week.

Her 59-year-old mother, Éva Kistaj, has been caring for Katalin ever since she took her home from the hospital.

Katalin has two children whom their father took in after the tragedy. Since then, he has not even brought the siblings to the grandparents to visit, and he will not let them see their mother at all.

“In the first three years, my daughter used to look at the door and cry a lot when her children were mentioned, or when she heard their voices in old videos,”

cried the broken grandmother.

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Katalin is able to sense everything: she can hear, see, and feel. But she cannot move freely. She is awake, communicates by blinking, can close her mouth on demand, and follows movements with her eyes. Her mother is with her 24/7 and helps her with everything.

If all this was not bad enough, her ex-husband sued Katalin for child support. The children’s father has also initiated an enforcement action against the grandmother, claiming money from her for the maintenance of blood relatives. The grandmother and the mother have accumulated debts of more than HUF 400,000 (EUR 1,123) and can be visited by the debt collector at any moment.