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On 16 December 2014, one of news websites posted an article telling that on 22 November an underage girl came to the police and told that she had had to leave her home in the village of Krasny Oktyabr, Kargapolye District because she could no longer live with her mother, who failed to perform her parental duty.

Investigators have revealed that the conditions described in the article appeared due to the fact that officials of the authorities responsible for prevention of child neglect and crimes committed by minors had not timely revealed that the mother had failed to perform her parental duty. The Kurgan Region investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee have opened a criminal investigation against the said officials into a crime under part 1 of article 293 of the RF Penal Code (negligence).

At present the investigators are carrying out a set of investigative operations to find out all the circumstances of the crime, to identify officials involved and reasons and conditions that contributed to the crime. The investigation is ongoing.