YEKATERINBURG, February 8 The third teenager, accused of child abuse in a special school in Yekaterinburg and who had previously escaped from the institution, was detained today at the bus station, said lawyer Georgy Krasnov, representing family of the injured boy.
Earlier, Krasnov said that in April 2023, a 13-year-old boy ran away from special school No. 124 in Yekaterinburg. In a conversation with his mother, the young man admitted that violence, including sexual violence, was occurring in the institution. The family turned to the media and lawyers for help. At school, “comradely courts” were practiced, where a vote was taken on whether to punish the offenders with forced oral sex, Krasnov cited the children’s words in a conversation with the agency. His client is a boy against whom no sexual acts were committed, but he was threatened with the same “trial.”
Three teenagers are involved in a criminal case, accused of 12 episodes of sexual assault; they categorically deny their guilt. Two children were recognized as victims. Two teenagers were taken into custody, the third defendant was under recognizance not to leave the place and was in a special school, from where he escaped in December last year. Previously, the trial in this case was postponed due to the failure of the runaway teenager to appear.
“It’s true, he was caught today, he was on the run,” Krasnov answered when asked whether it was true that the teenager was detained at the bus station.
«»The court order to select a guard was given to him back in January, so it will be executed, and he will be placed in pre-trial detention center-1 of Yekaterinburg. I don’t know the details, but he was in despair. According to our information, he was threatened before his escape his accomplices, he was afraid of the threats of the other defendants,” the agency’s interlocutor clarified.
According to him, the Chkalovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg will continue the process on February 28.
Law enforcement officers do not comment on cases involving minors. The regional department of the RF IC only informed that the ex-director of the special school will also appear in court — under the article of negligence. According to the department, in October 2022, minor pupils of a special school “committed unlawful acts” against a teenager born in 2009. At the same time, the woman, at that time the director of the educational institution, knew, but did not contact law enforcement agencies and did not take the necessary measures to help the injured child, which is why the violence in the special school continued.
Special school No. 124 in Yekaterinburg is a closed institution for students with generally dangerous behavior; children are placed there by court order.
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