The Saint-Petersburg Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee continues investigating a criminal case into a crime under paragraph “c” of part 2 of article 238 of the RF Penal Code (services not meeting safety requirements) after a boy born in 2009 was taken to hospital in the afternoon of 20 May 2014 from water park Waterville.
It has been reported that three employees of Waterville aqua park were detained on suspicions of the crime. They are director of the aqua park Inna Podvalnaya, shift boss Alexey Belyayev and instructor Anton Khvostov. By the present the three suspects have been charged with the crime and custodial motion is being now considered by the Vasilyevsky Ostrov District Court of Saint-Petersburg.
It has been established that about 5 PM, 20 May 2014, the child was in the water park together with his parents. After a 4-year-old took off a lifejacket and gave it to his parents, they put it on the other child. At that moment the boy, who was heading for the exit from the pool, went back and dived. The child’s father pulled him out of water immediately, the safeguards of the facility administered first medical aid and restored his breathing, after which the child was taken to hospital. At present he is in hospital in satisfying condition, his life out of danger.
Investigators believe that Podvalnaya did not provided safe conditions for the visitors of the aqua park while Khvostov and Belyayev let the boy stay in water without a life jacket.
At present the investigators are deciding over restraint for the detainees and pressing the charges. The Waterville aqua park has been sealed as a piece of evidence and will not work during the investigation. The investigation is ongoing.
Head of Media Relations V.I. Markin
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