The Russia’s Investigative Committee is deeply concerned with cases of murders of and violence to Russian children in American adoptive families. American competent bodies do not take exhaustive measures to reveal and punish the guilty in death of children adopted from Russia. The indifference and double standards with which the United States of America for years investigate crimes against Russian children are surprising. For example, more than three years the United State have been investigating a case against Michael Grismore who sexually abused his 15-year-old daughter adopted from Russia. Moreover, the fake certificates on the girl’s age were submitted to the American court to avoid prosecution.
The Investigative Committee cannot stay indifferent to crimes committed by American parents against foster children from Russia. The Russian Investigative Committee launches criminal proceedings into every revealed crime. At present the Main Investigations Directorate is investigating 9 criminal cases over encroachment on lives and health of 12 Russian children. In accordance with a bilateral agreement on mutual legal assistance investigators have sent to competent bodies of USA requests to present copies of all materials of investigations into abovementioned crimes and on implementing in USA necessary investigating and other procedural operations. The US Ministry of Justice has refused to present any documents or initiate any procedural actions over four of the cases.
Never the less, the Investigative Committee has in absentia charged Brian Dykstra with murdering his adoptive son Ilya Kargyntsev, Michael and Nanette Cravers – with killing their adoptive son Ivan Skorobogatov, Michael Grismore – with sexual abuse of his adoptive daughter. All of them are internationally wanted by Interpol National Central Bureau in the Russian Interior Ministry.
To ensure punishment to America citizens adequate to gravity of their crimes the Russia’s prosecutor General’s Office and Foreign Ministry repeatedly appealed to Ministry of Justice, State Department and State Secretary of USA to appeal and review the decisions of American courts acquitting Brian Dykstra and M. Harrison and unreasonably lenient verdict to the Cravers (got 19 years in jail), charged with homicide, however these appeals were ignored.
The Investigative Committee is going to take every possible measure within its powers to protect Russian children against crimes independent of place and to take exhaustive measures to prosecute the guilty in accordance with Russian and International laws.
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