Once again, the Court unanimously found that the Romani woman had been sterilized without informed consent in contravention of Articles 3 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
was forcibly sterilized in the Gelnica Hospital, in Eastern Slovakia, during the caesarean section delivery of her second child v on 25 April 2001.
However, the guardians did not give any consent to sterilization and no record on this was entered in the release report from the hospital.
In 2008, the District Court in Spišska Nova Ves found sterilization illegal and granted her compensations in amount of app.
After the decision, they called on the Slovak Government to compensate all the victims in pending cases instead of repeatedly "facing an international humiliation and condemnation".