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A court has recognized the evidence collected by the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area-Yugra office of the Investigative Committee sufficient to convict former staffer of Dobry Volshebnik rehabilitation center Nadezhda Shanayeva. She was found guilty of crimes under Part 1 of Article 238 and Part 2, item “c” of Article 112 of the RF Penal Code (provision of services that do not meet safety standards and deliberate causing of medium-range bodily harm to a minor who is known by the perpetrator to be in helpless state).

The court and investigators have revealed that on 4 May 2016, the woman broke a child’s arm by holding him and trying to make him drink an oxygen cocktail.

A lot of investigative and other procedural operations have been done: the victim was medically examined, a computer inquiry was run, the footage published in media was confiscated, all documents of the rehabilitation center were confiscated and processed, over 130 people, including parents of the children, the staff of the rehabilitation center and other individuals who have information relevant for the investigation were questioned.

The court has sentenced Nadezhda Shanayeva to 8 months in a penal settlement.

Former head of the facility’s daycare department was earlier found guilty of negligence and fined for 20 thousand rubles.