The Investigative Committee has almost completed the investigation into the burning of an 11-year-old boy in the village of Dubovaya Roshcha near Moscow, Izvestia learned. Several teenagers locked him in a wooden building, boarded up the door, and then it caught fire. The investigation examined several versions of what happened, the Investigative Committee said. The schoolchildren who participated in the tragedy were placed on preventive registration: at the time of the crime they had not reached the age of criminal responsibility. The mother of the deceased told Izvestia that she plans to file a lawsuit against the parents of these children, and Village residents launched a petition to lower the age of criminal responsibility. But experts are sure that this should not be donesince teenagers under 14 years of age do not always realize the social danger of their actions.
Burnt alive
The investigation into the death of an 11-year-old boy in the village of Dubovaya Roshcha in the Ramensky district of the Moscow region is close to completion, Izvestia found out. It lasted almost a year. As the Investigative Committee initially reported, the victim was locked in a barn and stabbed to death by his peers. And then the building caught fire, and the boy died.
A criminal case was opened under article of murder, the mother of the deceased, Christina, told Izvestia. However, she believes it will most likely be closed because the children who committed it have not reached the age of criminal responsibility.
“During all this time, I have to prove that my child did not set himself on fire,” she said. — There was a version that the fire started from the inside, not from the outside. But I don’t believe that my child could set himself on fire. He didn't even have matches.
Even now, almost a year after the tragedy, a memorial remains at the site of the boy’s death—dozens of toys were brought there by local residents. On May 19, 2023, he had his graduation – Albert graduated from the fourth grade and went for a walk with his classmates, his mother said.
“I had some anxiety that day, but I let him go,” recalls Christina. “My son went with the guys, he was very cheerful and happy. Around two o'clock he called, saying that he wanted to skip training. I forbade him, but then the coach himself moved it. At five in the evening I saw a message that he had paid for something in the store. They called me at ten minutes to seven, and the girl said: “It looks like your boy burned down in the barn, come.”
Christina’s husband went to the place, and after a while he told her: “He’s no longer there.” Until nightfall, the parents were at the scene of the tragedy – they left only when criminologists and investigators took away what was left of their son’s body.
“You could have thrown a match into the barn where they locked my child from outside,” the mother assures. — And inside it was lined with foam plastic, but the doors were covered with foam rubber. Polystyrene foam does not burn; it emits acrid smoke, but foam rubber flares up instantly. Therefore, it was possible to set fire outside by throwing something there.
The children told their parents that before the fire there had allegedly been some kind of fight and its participants pushed Christina’s son into the barn, hammering the latch with a nail so that the door could not be opened.
“These boys’ position is: ‘We didn’t see anything, we don’t know anything,’” she noted. “I don’t know why they did it.”
The barn in which the teenager died was located not far from the settlement administration – local residents had been demanding the demolition of the buildings for a long time. Fires often occurred in them, and marginal elements spent the night. However, this was done only after the tragedy.
Manslaughter
Christina knows nothing about the children who could have been involved in the death of her son. There were two boys and a girl at the scene at the time of the tragedy – all were between 12 and 13 years old.
“At that moment, all his friends left, and my son stayed with them,” the mother said. — When the friends returned, everything was on fire. For 10 months I did not see either the children or their parents – they did not communicate with us. When we interviewed friends, they said that one of these children abused their child: beat him, extorted money, took away their briefcases.
However The Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region found no signs of premeditated murdersenior assistant to the head of the Main Directorate of the Moscow Region Investigative Committee Olga Vradiy told Izvestia.
“But there are signs of unlawful deprivation of liberty, resulting in death through negligence,” she said. “However, the age of schoolchildren has not reached the threshold for criminal liability. Both teenagers, who locked the child in a wooden outbuilding, were registered with the preventive authorities at the request of the investigation.
During the investigation of the case, according to Olga Vradiy, several versions of what happened were checked, including the one according to which the child was locked in the annex and the room was set on fire from the outside. In addition, a version was worked out according to which the fire occurred directly inside.
— A large amount of work was carried out to answer all the existing questions from both the investigation and the victim’s parents., explained the Investigative Committee. — This includes at least ten inspections of the crime scene, interviews with more than 40 witnesses, including children. 26 forensic examinations were carried out in the criminal case, two of them are fire-technical. They confirmed that the fire was located inside the outbuilding.
But Christina still believes that everyone who could have been involved in the tragedy should bear responsibility: children, parents, the administration, which did not demolish dangerous buildings in a timely manner.
“If the case is closed, we will go to court with a civil position,” she said. “The only punishment for these children can be a special school, but this is at the discretion of the judge.” By law, they cannot be held criminally liable. But I believe that you need to be responsible for your actions.
According to Christina, the parents of the possible perpetrators of her son’s death should be punished.
“I am in favor of introducing a law on criminal liability of parents for the actions of their children if they have not yet reached the required age,” she said.
Concerned residents of the village created a petition demanding that the age of criminal prosecution of children for serious crimes be lowered. Now Christina is actively collecting signatures in her support.
Is it possible to lower the age of criminal responsibility?
Criminal liability in Russia begins at the age of 14; these are 32 articles in the Criminal Code, among which there are grave and especially grave crimes. AND It is impossible to solve the issue of teenage crime and its prevention by lowering the age of criminal responsibility, says lawyer and former investigator of the main investigative department of the Investigative Committee Andrei Grivtsov.
“Understanding all the pain of the parents of the deceased boy, it is necessary to take into account that the fate of these specific children, even if their guilt is proven, such a change will not affect in any way, taking into account the principle of the non-retroactivity of the law,” the lawyer explained to Izvestia. – Besides, There are quite a lot of criminological studies showing that 14 years is the age when a person has at least a primary understanding of social danger. Some scientists, on the contrary, are discussing the need to raise the age
of criminal responsibility.
The expert also emphasized that it is necessary to combat child cruelty first of all with educational measures and not to forget that the psyche of a problem child can be completely broken by criminal prosecution.
According to psychologist Natalya Naumova, the problem of child crime needs to be solved by involving teachers and school psychologists, but the latter often fail to cope with this task due to the enormous workload.
— School psychologists have too many potential clients. A large number of conflicts pass without their attention, which can lead to such tragedies in the future,” the expert said. “We often see that children at school do not receive any help or support. If bullying starts against a child, the school tries to make some timid attempts, but as a rule, in a large number of cases, it cannot provide quality assistance.
The psychologist emphasized that in order to identify conflict situations at the initial stage, psychological training and programs for working with conflicts should be developed for all teachers, without exception.
At the same time, Natalya Naumova noted that even for children who have not reached the age of criminal responsibility, it is possible to create a system of punishments in the form of community service. She added that children who have already committed crimes should undergo individual and group therapy to identify the reasons for their behavior.
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