"Astakhovgate"

Candal around the death of a three -year -old baby from Russia in Texas

From accusations of murder to disavowing their own words - such a way went in four days two Russian Ombudsmen - the Commissioner for the Rights of the Child Pavel Astakhov and Konstantin Dolgov, who is responsible for the Russian Foreign Ministry for human rights. From their presentation on February 18, the scandal around the death in Texas Maxim Kuzmin, a three -year -old baby from Russia, adopted by an American couple, broke out on February 18

Three -year -old Maxim Kuzmin (Max Alan Shatto) died under the circumstances that were not fully clarified in Texas on January 21. This tragic incident came to the authors of the Law of the Schools as well ...

On February 20, Astakhov was forced to admit: Laura Shatto, the adoptive mother of Maxim (in the States he received a new name - Max Alan Shatto) did not beat him to death. The child died on her oversight, and this, they say, according to the laws of Texas, is also a criminal offense. Texas in response remained silent in response. On the same day, the US State Department accused Astakhov of “irresponsible statements”. Nevertheless, on February 21, Konstantin Dolgov, speaking in the Duma and demonstrating the enviable - unlike Texas sheriffs - awareness, states: preliminary results of the opening of the baby’s body still give reason to believe in the version of violent death. A couple of hours pass, and now the Texas police officially officially refutes the statements of Astakhov and Dolgova: the boy lost consciousness, playing with his younger brother Cyril in the courtyard of the house (and not on the playground, as our children's Ombudsman assured), the mother called an ambulance, but it was not possible to save the child. By this moment, Russian diplomats in the United States have to apologize to American colleagues for the ardor of Russian officials. In Moscow, meanwhile, their line is bend: at a meeting of the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children, deputies stigmatize America with might and main, and debts say that the episode with Maxim Kuzmin will become a “key topic” at the upcoming first meeting of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with the new US Secretary of State John Kerry. “This is a very strong exaggeration,” the diplomatic source of The New Times in Washington commented on Dolgov’s information.

X -ray view

In 300 millionth America, for various reasons, many children die for various reasons, so at first the press was not interested in the news of the death of January 21 on January 21. Exactly until the moment when Pavel Astakhov did not write about it on his Twitter on February 18. “According to the conclusion of pathologists, the baby has numerous damage,” the Ombudsman writes, adding that the adoptive mother was stuffed with the baby with strong psychotropic drugs ... Already at this stage, the information presented by Astakhov diverges with reality, although it cost nothing to check it. Further - more.

The child’s body was sent to open to the next county Tarrant and on January 30 was betrayed by the Earth. There are already preliminary results of the autopsy, the police decided not to publicize them, but American journalists will try to receive them through the court on the basis of the “Law on Freedom of Information”. The final opening report will not be ready soon. The authorities talk about two or three months, which is quite normal for toxicological examination, designed to establish the use of the very “psychotropic drugs” that Astakhov wrote about. The terms of such examinations do not differ in Russia, moreover, they can be carried out after the funeral: in the morgue, parts of the fabrics are left in this case. In this light, details seem strange to the child’s cruel beating before death, which was shocked by Russian Ombuds, referring to American law enforcement agencies. “I am glad that they have x-ray vision and saw some report,” the forensic expert Sondra Wolfe sarcastically remarked the newspaper Odessa American. “I have no idea where they got it from.” According to the expert, its department did not even transmit such information even to the local press, to say about the Russians.

The police said that there were no complaints about foster parents with Max and Cyril, although the local Sheriff Mark Donaldson later confirmed the presence of bruises on the boy’s body. But he immediately stated that investigators could not say whether they were the result of ordinary boyish fun: “We will find out what happened! - said Mark Donaldson to Reuter's agency. “For me, he is a Texas boy, not Russian.”

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The police said that there were no complaints about the bad appeal of adoptive parents with children

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The mystery of "Risperdala"

The experts are also careful in assessments of the treatment allegedly appointed to the boy. On February 20, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that Laura Shatto gave him the strongest psychotropic drug Risperdal, which is prescribed for adult patients with schizophrenia. But in the USA this medicine can be spelled out for children, however, a little older than Max. In particular, the US Federal Office for the Quality of Food and Medicines in August 2007 approved the use of this drug for the treatment of schizophrenia and for “short -term courses” with bipolar disorder in patients aged 10 to 17 years. Along with this, the medicine is allowed to give to relieve irritability in children aged 5 to 16 years suffering from autism.

One of the Russian -speaking doctors, holding a fairly serious post in the hospital in Washington, told The New Times that it is impossible to compare the domestic and American approaches to treatment. “Risperdal” could be written out by a neurologist or psychiatrist who was to be well aware of possible side effects and restrictions, including heart arrhythmia, bradycardia and increased heartbeat, ”the medic said. Not receiving the final results of the examination, I am not sure of the use of psychotropic drugs and the police.

“Of course, the death of Max is terrible,” says Sarah Mraz, the director of international programs located in the state of Massachusetts, which worked until recently with Russia. - Not all cases of adoption are successful, and some parents commit violence against adopted children. Typically, countries are trying to minimize such cases together. But what is happening now in this area between the United States and Russia is more reminiscent of an exchange of blows. The historical confrontation between Moscow and Washington is projected on children. ”

As long as the American authorities are investigating the circumstances of the death of Max Shatto, and some Russian politicians are trying to cover the traces of Astakhovgate, the head of the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children, Elena Mizulina, suddenly stated on February 21 that 300 adopted children were dying in Russia annually, and the authorities simply do not know what. Is it a hint that Pavel Astakhov, perhaps, should do his immediate work, namely, protecting the rights of children at home, and not behind the ocean.

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