UPDATE: MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti) – The investigation into the death of a 3-year-old adopted Russian boy in the United States earlier this year was hampered by overriding political concerns, Russia’s child rights ombudsman suggested on Saturday, after US officials ruled his death was an accident. “His bruises disappeared, the medicine vanished, his adoptive parents were acquitted and the authorities have backtracked,” ombudsman Pavel Astakhov tweeted. “The 3-year-old boy became a victim of big politics.”
Original: After being brutally beaten by his American stepmother, who gave him psychotropic medication for an extended period of time, a 3-year-old Russian boy named Maksim has died in Texas, Russian Children’s Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov wrote on Twitter…
Maksim Kuzmin died before medics, called by his stepmother, arrived at the scene. An autopsy showed that the boy suffered multiple injuries to his head, limb, abdomen and internal organs prior to death…
The investigation revealed that the boy was beaten by his stepmother, who had also fed him strong psychotropic medication…
The US State Department did not comment on the boy’s death, which reportedly happened on January 21. Nevertheless, the incident became known to the Russian Embassy in the US…
Russian Children’s Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov has asked the country’s Interior Ministry to conduct an impartial investigation, and to keep Russia informed of all details concerning Maksim’s death…
Around the same time this happened, Ambassador Michael McFaul said that Russian authorities would lose consular access to adopted Russian children. He blamed it on the adoption ban, but there was never any reason to stop this. How much did he know about this child’s death?
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