"People are furious, searching the mother's social media accounts, demanding justice." What's happening in Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad, where a stepfather killed a seven-year-old child?
In search of a first-grader Danila Trekhlebova, who was reported missing on February 2, participated more than a thousand residents ChernyakhovskThe boy's mother is responsible for his death. confessed just this morning.
According to the investigation, the child was severely injured the day before beat up Stepfather. When the mother discovered the boy dead in the morning, his body was taken out of town and dumped in a swamp. Then they filed a missing person report with the police and began searching with volunteers.
According to a NeMoskva subscriber who lives in Chernyakhovsk, this news has shaken the city. A makeshift memorial has sprung up in the city center: people are bringing flowers, toys, and candles.
— Residents are furious, searching the mother’s social media accounts, wanting to get information about the family themselves, and demanding reprisals, — told "NotMoscow" subscriber. — While discontent rages on social media, all is quiet on the streets. But taxi drivers are discussing it out loud—they helped search for the boy, showing his photo to all their customers. Now, the wanted posters posted everywhere are being taken down.
Media сообщают, that bruises on the child's body were repeatedly noticed at the kindergarten, and the police were even called, but the case was hushed up—the mother cited a domestic injury and refused to file a report.
Since December last year, Danil Trekhlebov did not attend school, allegedly due to illness. On January 13 of this year, his 12-year-old sister was taken to the hospital with a broken collarbone, allegedly after falling down the stairs.
The police didn't see anything suspicious about it.
Spontaneous memorials to the murdered boy are popping up in various cities across the Kaliningrad region. Online created A petition demanding stricter laws on domestic violence was signed by about three thousand Russians in one day.
Tighten the law on domestic violence required and in July 2023, when the adoptive mother brutally killed the six-year-old Dalera Bobieva в YekaterinburgIt seems the State Duma deputies didn't react to this. Later, the court sentenced a guardianship department employee was fined 100 rubles Evgenia Voznesenskaya, which was obliged to check the living conditions of the child in the foster family, but did not do this, but simply falsified the inspection reports.
Foster father Alexander Naumov, who tortured the boy, beat him with a stun gun and deprived him of food, received five years in prison, but back in the North Military District (before the murder he was already at the front).
A NeMoskva subscriber from Chernyakhovsk signed a petition to tighten the law, although she doubts the authorities will respond quickly.
— Right now, the authorities are mostly busy with other issues—the military and all that—and they’re unlikely to consider this, — she says. — But there is hope that they will at least take care of it later.