MOSCOW, February 20. /TASS/. Investigators have brought attempted murder charges against the mother of the child who had spent nearly 24 hours alone in Moscow’s Elk Island National Park, the court’s press service informed TASS.
"Charges of committing a crime under Part 3 of Section 30 and Part 2 of Section 105 of the Russian Criminal Code (‘Murder of a minor or another individual <…> committed with extreme cruelty’) have been pressed against her," the court’s spokesperson said.
In the morning on February 18, a woman born in 1985 contacted a police station saying that her six-year-old son had got lost in Moscow’s Elk Island National Park. According to the woman, the boy ran away and did not return.
A law enforcement source earlier told TASS that the boy got out of the forest all by himself at around 9am and headed to a gasoline filling station in Moscow’s eastern Golyanovo district. The employees there called the emergency services.
The story told by the child contradicts his mother’s version of what happened, according to the Russian Investigative Committee. A comprehensive fingerprint and molecular genetic forensic examination will be conducted, investigators said.