Sverdlovsk child protection authorities failed to notice the child's disappearance for at least six months. His body was found this morning, and his adoptive mother has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Missing reports of 6-year-old Daler appeared in Yekaterinburg chat rooms on June 26. At first, the adoptive mother Veronica Naumova She said that the boy suffered from a mental disorder and periodically ran away from home.
Hundreds of volunteers searched for the child for three days. They combed through More than 500 square kilometers were covered and four thousand leaflets were posted. A police car drove through the streets, from which Naumova used a loudspeaker to ask him to return home.
The family raised six children, three of whom were adopted. The father was at war, the mother teaches geography and biology at a family education school, neighbors and colleagues speak positively of her. At the same time, her former student Daniil Egolnikov I told about cruel family rules, torture with electric shocks and swimming in icy water.
The foster mother was detained yesterday, and last night she confessed that the boy had died back in December. According to Naumova, he drowned In the bathroom. Terrified, the woman put the body in a duffel bag and hid it in some unfinished garages 300 meters from her home. That's where police discovered it.
Tomorrow his adoptive father arrives from the war; the Investigative Committee will work with him to determine the circumstances of the boy's death.
Also a consequence find outWhy did child protection authorities and the staff of the kindergarten he attended ignore the child's absence for at least six months?
Regional Ombudsman for the Protection of Children's Rights Igor Morokov history does not comment.
And here is the Commissioner for the Protection of Human Rights Tatyana Merzlyakova does not hide his surprise.
"Children in guardianship should be under the special care of child protection authorities. If the father is serving in the Special Forces, then the guardianship authorities should support the family," said She told the journalists.
Residents of the city are bringing flowers and toys to the house where the boy lived and the unfinished garage where his body was found.
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