Pupils of a Penza orphanage said that the director beat them and forced them to “sleep with the girls”; The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case after the pupils of the Mokshansky orphanage for the mentally retarded told about beatings by the director Zaur Ivanov. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the department.

The Investigative Committee opened a case of abuse of power with the use of violence (clause “a” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code). No other details are provided.

Earlier, the YouTube channel “Left Front Penza” published a video in which unnamed pupils of an orphanage in the village of Moksha, Penza region, say that director Ivanov beats them.

“Of course, yesterday he offended our Vanya Lushin for no reason. He came to the shower and began to threaten him: “You did the tiles wrong.” Vanya Lushin did the grouting. Yesterday he strangled him, beat him, and everything in the world,” says the young man.

In addition, according to the student, Ivanov often drinks and forces him to “sleep with girls.”

The girl in the video also says that the director often insults her and threatens to beat her: “We are afraid of him, he beats us. He drove me into a corner in the summer and said: “Now I’ll hit you ***** everything, and I won’t get anything for it. I can do whatever I want with you - break your legs, break your arms. Wherever I want, I’ll take you there, and nothing will happen to me for it.” We are afraid of him."

Another student also spoke about the beating of Lushin and confirmed that Ivanov often “comes to us drunk.”

Ivanov himself the accusations in a conversation with 7x7 denied . “They cried and regretted recording this video. Yes, as a former military man - I served in the army for 30 years and participated in two Chechen campaigns - I treat them with discipline and strictness. But I never said a rude word to them, I didn’t even raise my voice half a tone. I never laid a finger on a single soldier in the army. And here are sick children - where to go?” said the director.

He believes that the video was published through the Russian Children's Fund, with which Ivanov had a conflict in the summer. According to the director, the fund’s employees promised to “remember” this to him.

After the publication of the video, Penza governor Ivan Belozertsev demanded that Ivanov be fired.