10 July 2008, 14:12
In Volgograd Region, woman sentenced to social works for cruel treatment of her child
A woman from the Kamyshin District, Volgograd Region, was washing her daughter in a washing machine with the motor on, for what she was sentenced to mandatory social works.
Dmitri Simanovich, Public Prosecutor of the Kamyshin District, has informed journalists that the woman of 40, who lives in the city of Petrov Val, Kamyshin District, Volgograd Region, was sentenced by the regional court for inadequate execution of parental duties aggravated by cruel treatment of the child.
"It has been proved by the materials of case that the child lived in her mother's house in anti-sanitary conditions. Frequently, the house was not heated," Dmitri Simanovich has noted.
"According to the girl, her mother used to wash her in the washing machine with the working motor," Lydia Sergeeva, senior assistant to the public prosecutor of the Volgograd Region, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
According to Ms Sergeeva, the girl was often beaten by her mother. When brought to the shelter, the child was diagnosed to have pediculosis.
Now the child is in the rehabilitation centre, and the issue is considered to deprive the mother of parental rights. The Kamyshin District Court sentenced her to 180 hours of obligatory social works.
According to the GUVD of the Volgograd Region, every month about five hundred administrative protocols are drawn up against parents or other lawful representatives of minors who neglect their duties of raring children (fail to take measures that their children attend school or refrain from criminality).
Author: Vyacheslav Yashchenko, CK correspondent
