Two women are on trial in Moscow for beating a Buryat girl.
A mother and daughter accused of beating a Buryat girl in Moscow have appeared in court on hooliganism charges. The next hearing is scheduled for November 12.
Two women, a mother and daughter, who beat a 14-year-old Buryat girl in May, are facing trial in Moscow's Shcherbinsky District Court. They are accused of hooliganism. wrote On her Facebook page, the journalist and president of the Free Buryatia Foundation Alexandra Garmazhapova.
Certificate, letter of thanks and the accused's version
According to Garmazhapova, one of the defendants (the mother) presented a certificate stating that she was mentally unstable. Both defendants also presented the court with a letter of thanks from an Orthodox church in Kolomna.
"At the same time, the accused insist that the girl attacked them, 'baring her teeth,' beat them, and dragged them both by the hair. When asked why they didn't report the injuries, both responded that they were 'non-confrontational,' but were 'incredibly shocked by today's teenagers' (though, mind you, there's a recording of the incident that clearly shows the frightened schoolgirl simply standing there, pressed against the wall)," Alexandra wrote.
The next court hearing is scheduled for November 12.
The beating of a Buryat girl in May: what is known
At the end of May in Moscow, two women attacked a 14-year-old Buryat girl who had come to visit a friend because she pulled the front door too hard. They hit They hit a girl on the head with a scooter, pinned her in a corner, and ripped out her hair, calling her a "slant-eyed monster." At the hospital, the teenager was diagnosed with a concussion and required five stitches in her eyebrow.
