Russia opens criminal case into sexual abuse of child adopted to U.S. - Investigative Committee head
MOSCOW. Jan 30 (Interfax) - The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal investigation involving a U.S. family who adopted a Russian child and sexually abused him, Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin said.
"The last telegram that I received just yesterday from our ambassador to the U.S. concerns another child, aged six, who is currently in a family and experiencing sexual abuse, while our diplomats and consuls can do nothing about this," Bastrykin said at a meeting of the Investigative Committee's public council dealing with assistance to orphaned children on Wednesday.
"I have issued a directive to open a criminal case against this family. Perhaps this can somehow stop American pseudo-adopters and pseudo-parents," he said.
As many as 19 Russian children adopted by U.S. citizens are known to have died since 1996.
Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin announced on December 28, 2012 that Russia was investigating nine criminal cases dealing with abuse of 12 Russian children adopted by U.S. citizens.
