{"id":3306,"date":"2013-02-18T20:26:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T20:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2013-02-18T20:26:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T20:26:44","slug":"3-year-old-russian-boy-killed-by-american-adoptive-mother-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/3-year-old-russian-boy-killed-by-american-adoptive-mother-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"3-year-old Russian boy killed by American adoptive mother in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Source:\u00a0http:\/\/rt.com\/news<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Published: 18 February, 2013, 17:57<\/p>\n

After being brutally beaten by his American adoptive mother, who gave him psychotropic medication for an extended period of time, a 3-year-old Russian boy named Maksim has died in Texas, Russian diplomats have said.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee has launched a probe into the death of Maksim Kuzmin at the hands of his adoptive American family.
\nThe boy died before medics, called by his adoptive mother, arrived at the scene. An autopsy showed that he suffered multiple injuries to his head, limb, abdomen and internal organs prior to death.<\/p>\n

The investigation revealed that Maksim was beaten by his adoptive mother, who had also fed him strong psychotropic medication. The boy was given Risperdal, an anti-psychotic drug mainly used for short-term treatment of schizophrenia and bilateral disorders and approved for prescription in the US with the starting age of 10.<\/p>\n

The US State Department did not comment on the boy\u2019s death, which reportedly happened on January 21. Nevertheless, the incident became known to the Russian Embassy in the US.<\/p>\n

Russian Children\u2019s Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov has asked the Russian Foreign Ministry to conduct an impartial investigation, and to keep Russia informed of all details concerning Maksim\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Russian MFA Representative for Human Rights Konstantin Dolgov said the US State Department failed to provide help to the Russian diplomats investigating Kuzmin\u2019s death. In a Twitter post, Dolgov called the incident \u201cyet another inhuman abuse of a Russian child adopted by an American family,\u201d and said he was expecting \u201csevere punishment for those found guilty in his death.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maksim\u2019s death comes amid heightened Russia-US tensions, which center on children and human rights abuses. The boy\u2019s death was less than a month after the \u2018Dima Yakovlev Law\u2019 banning US citizens from adopting Russian foster children came into force.<\/p>\n

Although the two countries agreed in 2012 to form a joint task force to investigate crimes against adopted Russian children, Russian politicians and law enforcement have repeatedly said the US is reluctant to cooperate on the matter. They also noted that convicted American parents were given soft sentences for their cruel treatment, or even manslaughter, of Russian kids, which was said to be one of the grounds for the adoption ban bill.<\/p>\n

 
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Source:\u00a0http:\/\/rt.com\/news Published: 18 February, 2013, 17:57 After being brutally beaten by his American adoptive mother, who gave him psychotropic medication for an extended period of time, a 3-year-old Russian boy named Maksim has died in Texas, Russian diplomats have said. Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee has launched a probe into the death of Maksim Kuzmin at the… Weiter »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}