The key facts
- Case opened under the article on causing grievous bodily harm by negligence
- The boy's mother believes the wrongful actions of medical staff were the cause
- Bastrykin ordered Dmitry Mityaev to report on the status of the investigation
Case opened after online reports
In the Leningrad Region, the Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case after information spread online about a five-year-old boy who has not regained consciousness for more than a month. This was reported on the Telegram channel of the Investigative Committee of Russia. The case was opened under the article on causing grievous bodily harm by negligence: the child's mother believes his condition resulted from the wrongful actions of medical staff.
Bastrykin's directive
Head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin gave a directive to Dmitry Mityaev, the acting head of the investigative directorate for the Leningrad Region. He must report on the current status of the investigation and on what circumstances have already been established.
Context of the publication
The Life.ru article, which was the first to report the opening of the case, also mentions the detention in the Gatchina district of the Leningrad Region of former mathematics teacher Dmitry Nakaryakov, suspected of murdering a two-year-old boy and his 58-year-old grandmother in St. Petersburg; the wanted man was found alive. This is a separate incident, unrelated to the case of the child who fell into a coma. The available publications contain no data yet on the progress of the new investigation, the results of the review of the medical staff's actions, or the boy's current condition.
