A jury in the Moscow Regional Court issued a guilty verdict against Kaliningrad doctors Elena Belaya and Elina Sushkevich. Interfax was informed about this by the press service of the court.
The jury found them unworthy of leniency. The next session will take place on August 30.
Survival criterion. What is the basis of the case of Kaliningrad doctors accused of killing a baby
A neonatologist from the Kaliningrad Perinatal Center, Elina Sushkevich, is accused of murdering a newborn in 2018 (paragraph “c” of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code), and the head physician of the Kaliningrad maternity hospital No. 4, Elena Belaya, of organizing the murder of a newborn (Part 3 of Article 33, paragraph “ in «Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code).
The Investigative Committee accuses them of the fact that Belaya in November 2018 persuaded Sushkevich to inject a premature baby with an extremely low body weight with a lethal dose of magnesium sulfate, as she feared a deterioration in the statistics of the maternity hospital .
Sushkevich said that the introduction of adrenaline and direct cardiac massage did not work, and the baby, who was in serious condition, died.
Doctors' case. How the Kaliningrad doctors accused of killing a baby were tried
When the doctors' case was considered in Kaliningrad, Belaya and Sushkevich were acquitted by the jury, but later the decision was canceled. According to the court, the defense through the media “discredited the prosecution”, and the information about the defendants on the Internet “caused pity” among the jury.
At the request of Deputy Prosecutor General Igor Tkachev, the trial was transferred to a Moscow Region court. Due to the fact that the doctors did not have registration there, both were sent to the Moscow SIZO-6 «Pechatniki».
Elina Sushkevich's lawyer Kamil Babasov told Kommersant that the prosecutor's office did not present new evidence. At the same time, according to him, “the judge did not accept a single petition of the defense, including a speech before the jury of neonatologists and a toxicologist.”