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Mount Yegor
Drama around the fate of a stolen boy and his many parents unfolds in the Moscow Region
Two and a half years ago, in June 2014, a baby Matvey Ivanov disappeared from the maternity hospital in Dantovsk near Moscow. Mother, 19-year-old Lyubov Ivanova, even before the loss refused him.
The search for Lisa Alert connected to the search, his headquarters was on duty around the clock in Dedovsk for a month. Tens of thousands printed orientations - in Moscow and the Moscow Region there were volunteers who did it for free. The announcement of the missing boy hung in every bus of the Moscow region, orientations, like wallpaper, were glued, so that the mayor of Dedovsk began to tear them off the walls with his own hands - they say, they spoil the face of the city. There were businessmen who promised that they would pay 300 thousand for any reliable information about the whereabouts of the child.
The first days after the incident, people called the Lisa Alert hotline every ten minutes, then stably several times a day, Irina Vorobyova recalls, Liza Alert volunteer and director of the development system for the search system for missing people “Method Center”.
The theft was suspected by Lyubov’s mother Elena Ivanov and her roommate. Both were arrested in September 2014, they spent a month and a half behind bars. Then the investigation reported their non -involvement in the crime and removed the charges.
The child was found, one might say, by chance - two and a half years later, just 12 kilometers from the grandfather’s maternity hospital, in the village of Pavlovskaya Sloboda, Istrinsky district (30 kilometers from Moscow). A resident of the Pavlovsk Sloboda 40-year-old Elena Spakhova carried documents at the place of work to issue benefits for the child. (Elena works as a cook at a school in a neighboring village of Pokrovskoye, before that she worked as a nurse in the 52nd Moscow City Hospital). In the authenticity of documents in accounting, they doubted: there was no original birth certificate, the copy seemed to be a fake. Reported to the police. So the country again remembered the stolen Matvey.
On the page on the social network of Elena and Sergey Spakhovs, they began to congratulate them on the birth of their son on May 21, 2014. Matvey disappeared from the maternity hospital on June 17-the 18th, the foster family was supposed to come for him.
The Spachov family lives in a brick two -story building in the Pavlovsk Sloboda. In the courtyard of the house there are homemade wooden swings, decorated with tinsel and toys Christmas tree. The house has central heating, hot water. According to the neighbors, they are here for more than five years, but "they did not shine, they lived separately." Both have this not the first marriage. Sergey works as a driver in an assenced brigade. Friends say that he used to serve, passed hot spots.
Immediately after the truth about the truth about Matvey, she admitted to the MK newspaper: she had a miscarriage in the first month of pregnancy - in August 2013. The woman did not dare to tell anyone about this. In May 2014, her stomach was very ill, her husband took her to the hospital. The doctor confirmed that there was no pregnancy, but Elena was put in the gynecological department
The husband met Elena at the discharge. She went out without a child, said that her son was left in the hospital with artificial feeding. A month later, relatives were worried. The spouse was eager for the hospital, to find out why the child is not prescribed. Then Elena went to her grandfather's maternity hospital. I rode the elevator along the floors, as if I decided on suicide and even wrote a dying note that "could no longer lie." But she stumbled upon the children's department, without problems she took out the child from the hospital building. So a son appeared in the family.
According to Elena, the boy was named Yegor in honor of her husband who died in Afghanistan. Elena and Sergey do not talk to anyone more, they left their apartment. Teachers are constantly on duty at the house.
Spachov neighbors speak well of the family, but no one talked closely with them.
Mother, father of Elena Spakhova and her younger sister live in the village of Pokrovskoye nearby, journalists also besiege their house. They say that the crew even spent the night under the windows. Elena Spakhova’s mother refused to talk, sending a “new” correspondent to the correspondent and promising to pour boiling water. The neighbors say that grandparents did not dull souls in the grandson, constantly walked with him in the yard.
All with whom I managed to talk in Pavlovskaya Sloboda and Pokrovsky unanimously converge that the child should be left in the family that still raised him.
- The child has nothing to do with it, why punish him?
More recently, Elena Stakhova lived with any Ivanova, biological mother of Matvey, on neighboring streets. Three years ago, Lyuba and her mother moved to Dedovsk, Elena Spakhova also left Pokrovskoye. Lyuba Ivanova is now 22 years old. She lives with her mother, her 13-year-old son and two sons of Lyuba-the eldest 4.5 years, the youngest, apparently, less than a year. I didn’t find them at home on Friday, they left for Moscow for a talk show.
The right to sensation was privatized by the first channel: I contacted any Ivanova, but she said that she would not talk to anyone, all issues should be resolved through the producer “let them talk”.
But the grandmother Lyuba Galina still lives in Pokrovsky and is ready to talk. Lyuba left her eldest son Lyuba on Moscow on bail. Galina says she is already at home.
“Lyuba seems to be going to return Matvey to herself through guardianship, I understood that,” says Galina. “I am not an assistant to them, I don’t have enough strength.” I already help with what I can: with money with a pension, banks with salting ... I won’t pull one more.
I ask if Lyubo has funds to raise a third child.
“Enough if they rustle,” says Galina. - I have grown my three! This must be thought with a head and work with handles. Her elder is growing - a hero.
Galina regrets Elena Spakhova. The fact that Matvey was found in a foreign family, she learned from the news.
-In a way, I feel sorry for that woman. She will be planted anyway. A good lawyer needs her. They say that she stole the child after a miscarriage - you will go crazy on the nervous ground! At this age, being left without a child is the end. We ourselves endured a lot, but it is sorry for her. My daughter was under suspicion; because of this, she was not taken anywhere to work. Now this business comes out: two families are bad. There is only one joy - found.
Galina was also called in Ostankino, but she refused to go.
- Once I was when Matvey was stolen, I don’t want to. Then, of course, we were brought, we got it, they gave 15 thousand each, but for some reason everyone except love. Why Dali?
The biological father of Matvey, Alexei Honseshin, lives in the village of Bullfinch. They met with any Ivanova from 2013 to 2015. Now he has another family, he is raising two children of his new wife. His comments are contradictory: he says to one journalists that he does not want to have anything to do with any Ivanova walking, another - that he wants to pick up the child and educate him himself. Alexey refused to talk with the "New". Journalists of one of the state channels told me that he gave them an interview for money.
In the Pavlovsk Slobod, they say that the police did not check Elena Spakhova’s house after the loss of the child, because she was not listed in the lists of women in labor.
“This is an incredible case that the child was found in two and a half years,” says Irina Vorobyova from Lisa Alert. - On the orientations there was his photograph at the age of a month and a half, it would be impossible to identify him on it.
Vorobyova recalls similar cases. In the Perm Territory in 2012, a mentally unhealthy woman took away seven years old Ilya Yaropolov directly from the kindergarten, in Tomsk in 2014, a maniac also stole and killed a three -year -old Vika from the garden.
“First of all, the problem is in a very slow reaction of law enforcement agencies,” says Vorobyova.
Now Elena Spakhova is a suspect in the case and is at large under the subscription about the lower right to leave. Elena and Sergey have already visited Matvey-Ugor several times in the Dedovo city hospital, where the child was taken for examination. Before the announcement of the results of DNA expertise, it is not yet possible to say that Yegor Spachov is Matvey Ivanov. The Commissioner for the Rights of the Child in the Moscow Region Ksenia Mishonova said that after the results of the examination, Matvey will look for a new foster family.
After the abduction of the child, the chief physician of the maternity hospital of the Dedovo city hospital, Alexander Lakhov, was removed from his post. They told me that before stealing Matvey, Elena allegedly turned to him with a request to adopt the child, but he said that the woman would not have enough money for this.
Istrinsky district, Moscow region