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The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia orders to report about the progress of a pre-investigative probe into media report about sexual abuse against a girl in Moscow Region

One of federal channels broadcast a discussion of a story of a Moscow Region resident. In the program in was noted that the woman leads an antisocial lifestyle and was previously deprived of parental rights for her son and 16-year-old daughter. In that it was reported that the juvenile girl was subject to sexual abuse by her mother's friends during cohabitation. The work of guardianship authorities who, after depriving the mother from her parental rights, placed the children with their grandmother who is also leading a questionable lifestyle, was also criticized.
The Moscow Regional Main Investigations Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia launched a pre-investigative probe into these facts to throughly examine the information reported by the media.
The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin ordered the head of the Moscow Regional Main Investigations Directorate to report about the probe progress.