Nine year old Kamo and his 13 year-old sister Victoria say they do not want to be divided as an apple or a cookie and insist they both want to stay and live with their father.

After being divorced in 2009, their parents Igor and Karine Hakobjanyan cannot decide up to now who should have custody of their three under-age children.

The Appeals Court has decided to give Kamo and his 5-year-old sister Maria to the mother, and 13-year-old Victoria – to the father, because she said she wants to live with her father. Kamo asked the same, too, but according to a law, only the opinion of a child above 10 years-old is taken into consideration.

At a meeting with journalists on Thursday, both children and their father told their story, and while the father is ready to care for the children, the children in their turn, say they don’t want to live with their mother.

The father turned to the Court of Appeal, stating that the representatives of the Nor Nork administrative district office (the district where they reside) decided to give the children’s’ custody to him. Meanwhile, all three children have been living with their father for 10 months.

The children refuse meeting their mother during the days allocated for meeting her, saying that their mother tries to turn them against their father’s relatives. The children also say that their mother used to beat them.

“She used to write our homework for us and she told us to copy fast. Then we got out, she left us outdoors and went for her business,” Victoria recalls. And Kamo adds that his mother used to date different men that time.

Mother Karine Hakobjanyan refused giving any comments to ArmeniaNow, saying that she was waiting for the reply of the Court of Appeal. She only said that she is sure her children are in an atmosphere of fear, and they say whatever they are forced to say. The father, however, rejected this accusation.

According to Igor Hakobjanyan, his ex-wife does not have a higher education, she does not have a job, whereas he is a deputy director, and he is able to take care of his children financially.