The case of a policewoman from Orenburg about slapping a schoolboy was investigated for 15 years; she was sentenced to a real term and released from punishment

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of Orenburg sentenced him to three years in prison and released a former juvenile affairs inspector from punishment in the case of slapping a child. The solution caught the attention of 7×7 .

The court does not mention the name of the accused, but the only case this year under paragraph “a” of part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code in the file is against Anna Shinina.

As stated in the release, in August 2005, the police were carrying out instructions from their superiors and arrived at the Arlan store, where teenagers were selling textbooks at a spontaneous market. There she saw a 10-year-old schoolboy with a package of textbooks and suggested that he was “involved in committing an administrative offense related to trading in unidentified places.”

The employee “expressed demands for the cessation of illegal actions”, placed the student’s right hand behind his back and, despite the child’s complaints of acute pain and requests to be released, kept him in this position. After this, the police officer hit the child on the left cheek.

The boy was diagnosed with sprained ligaments of the right wrist joint, post-traumatic neuropathy of the radial nerve on the right, soft tissue hematomas in the area of ​​the wrist joint and bruises.

In court, Shinina spoke of her innocence in what happened, asked her to be acquitted and refused to testify, citing Article 51 of the Constitution. Echo of Moscow in Orenburg The local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told that the employee was fired. The police officer's sentence was overturned due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

Shinina's case was investigated for 15 years. As Radik Galimov, senior assistant to the head of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Orenburg region, explained to 7x7 , the prosecutor’s office suspended the investigation, and investigators resumed it only a few years later.

“Years later, investigators obtained evidence indicating involvement in this crime. [This practice] is not uncommon,” Galimov said.