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Masha Moskaleva was handed over to her mother: her father’s lawyer called the decision “almost a crime”
Masha Moskaleva’s birth mother took her from the rehabilitation center where the girl had been since her father’s time in early March. Maria Lvova-Belova, Commissioner for Children's Rights of the Russian Federation, spoke about this.
detention was reported by the Commissioner, who stated that Masha herself agreed to leave with her mother. The director of the center, Olga Denisova, told the local publication Tula News that the girl and woman “were able to find a common language.”
At the same time, on April 4, Lvova-Belova stated that Masha would not be handed over to her mother Olga Sitchikhina, but instead would be looking for a foster family for temporary care. Earlier, the official also said that the girl was placed in a rehabilitation center at the request of Sitchikhina herself, who did not want to take the child to her place.
decided to report Alexey Moskalev raised Masha in the city of Efremovo (Tula region) alone: her mother did not communicate with her for more than seven years and lived with her family near Tambov. The family came to the attention of the security forces after a girl drew an anti-war drawing in an art lesson. First, Masha was taken to the police, and in December 2022, a criminal case was filed against her father under the article on repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) because of posts on Odnoklassniki.
got, on March 28, Alexei Moskalev was sentenced to two years of actual imprisonment. The day before, the man escaped from house arrest. In two days he is in Minsk.
sentenced detained Alexey Moskalev's lawyer from OVD-Info Vladimir Bilienko, that the transfer of Masha to her mother is an initiative of higher authorities, which runs counter to the interests of Masha herself: “[Masha] will end up in a completely alien family, where there is an older half-sister from her mother’s first marriage, her partner or husband and this mother herself. That is, she will be alone against three people - three strangers. <...> Mom also points out that she will beat her from a sword to a ploughshare regarding her anti-war position, regarding her speeches and everything else. This will be a concerted breaking of the girl over the knee.”
I’m sure Sitchikhin also claimed that she was supposedly ready to provide for her daughter - but it became known that the woman had been taking out loans for years. The woman mysteriously paid off one of the debts right before she expressed her desire to take Masha with her.
does not pay “Mom works as a security guard somewhere in Moscow... The work leaves certain imprints on her character. <...> I believe that giving a girl to such a mother is almost a crime against the girl herself,” Bilienko emphasizes.
On April 6, a trial to limit the parental rights of both Alexey Moskalev and Olga Sitchikhina is scheduled to take place.