The Omsk Region Office of the Investigative Committee has finished criminal proceedings against a 37-year-old woman from the settlement of Muromtsevo charged with torturing a minor in a position dependent on the torturer under Part 2, item “d” of Article 117 of the RF Penal Code.
According to investigators, on 14 January 2017, the accused being under influence of alcohol beat her 14-year-old disabled son not able to fight back, with a poker for his remark on her being drunk again. After that she turned him out in the cold, locked the door from the inside and went to bed. The helpless child wearing a shirt and slippers spent about an hour in minus 30-degree cold until noticed by a neighbor. The woman took the boy to her home, warmed him up and then told his grandmother about what had happened. The grandmother took the child to a hospital for treatment. As a result of his heartless mother’s actions the boy suffered, bruises, scratches and I-degree frostbite of toes on both feet. They boy was confiscated from the family and is now living in a remedial boarding school.
Looking into the circumstances and reasons for the incident, the investigators came to conclusion that the boy had needed and should have been protected from tortures much earlier if respective authorities had done their duty properly and protected rights of minors. As was established, the accused had systematically abused alcohol and had three small children. She was careless about raising her children so she lost custody of one of her sons, but retained custody of her two other children. Her youngest daughter lives with the woman’s mother. Following the probe, the investigators filed a petition with the governor of Omsk Region requesting to eliminate reasons for and contributing factors of the crime, which the investigators believe, are improper work of the juvenile commission done to prevent crimes against minors.
The investigators have enough evidence so the case will soon be referred to court.
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