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1 detained, 4 at large in child sex abuse case in Chelyabinsk, Russia
One unidentified 51 year old man has been imprisoned and four others are being sought in an orphanage sex abuse case in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia, according to Russian language news account.According to the article which appears in the regnum.ru Russian language news outlet, as many as 10 unidentified children were sexually abused in a sex class taught by the 51 year old, identified with the call sign "Uncle Seryozha". The abuse was discovered in January, 2018, but local or Russian federal authorities had not been notified until February 19th. The report said the abuse took place at an institution called Lazurnaya boarding school. Some guardians with children from the school had notified the school administrators of their suspicions, since the children had all reported the same abuse. Their suspicions were dismissed, saying that the children made it all up. In the wake of the charges, an unidentified administrator at the school left the post. Four others were dismissed from their positions and are considered to be at large. Originally, local journalists who had caught wind of the abuse were admonished to keep quiet, it was said, to preserve the childrens' privacy, but the story by then already had spread enough, so even the governor of Chelyabinsk, Boris Dubrovsky has commented on the case. At the moment the ten children have been placed in other settings with the admonishment from authorities not to talk about the case with the press. The penalty suggested is to remove the children from their guardians. The Chelyabinsk representative for children, Irina Butorina, denied charges she was the one to issue the warnings. The case has attracted notice from the Russian Federation Duma ombudsman for children, Anna Kuznetsova, who has suggested moving the case to federal investigators because, she said, that local investigators may not be able to handle such a "complex case." According to the article, another fear of guardians of the children who were placed is that the case simply will be dropped. Those fears were expressed when a second case last Wednesday, this time without any defendants, was opened for negligence. Posted by: badanov 2018-02-25 |
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