Ninth-grader Alexey Marinets, who has been studying at the Shakhty Cossack Cadet Corps since 2020, said that in October, during a physical education lesson, he was beaten by director Vitaly Bobylchenko for using a phone. The teenager's story is reported by Team Against Torture.
On October 27, Marinets took out his phone during a physical education lesson and began filming his classmates, despite the ban on the use of phones in the building. As 161.RU writes, for senior cadets, that is, elders, this ban does not apply. The head teacher Irina Chertova and the director of the institution came to the lesson. The ninth-grader said that he recorded the video and gave the phone to the teachers.
Then the head teacher took Marinets to the physical education teacher’s office, where Bobylchenko was waiting for him. According to the student, the director hit him on the head with his palm, which made him dizzy and darkened his vision, and as a result, the teenager fell on the sports mats.
“I was lying on my back, trying to cover myself with my arms, tucking my legs under me. At that moment he jumped up to me and started hitting me in the ribs with his fists. I shouted and repeated repeatedly: “Sorry, it won’t happen again,” the cadet said. After the beating, the boy's ribs and head hurt.
At the first aid station, Marinets said that he fell during a physical education lesson. The nurse gave him the local painkiller Menovazine to treat the bruises. The ninth-grader went to the next lesson, but could not stay until the end. After lunch, Father Ivan Marinets came to pick up the teenager. In the cadet corps, he was told that there was no director, and his son was not beaten.
Doctors diagnosed Marints with a closed fracture of his little finger and a bruise of the soft tissues of the chest. The student's family filed a complaint with the police, as well as with the prosecutor's office and the ombudsman for children's rights in the region. In January, Ivan Marinets found out that Bobylchenko was “punished,” but not for beating a student, but for “poor control of the class schedule.” The statement about the beating is still under review.
In a conversation with 161.RU, the ninth-grader mentioned that his beating was not the first case: “Before, I didn’t have any scandals with the management, but they told me what happened with others. <…> I still don’t understand how this could happen, why and why.”