The court sentenced doctors from Kaliningrad to 9 and 9.5 years in prison for the murder of a baby

The Moscow Regional Court sentenced Kaliningrad doctors Sushkevich and Belaya to 9 and 9.5 years in the case of the murder of a baby in a maternity hospital. This was reported on August 11 by a correspondent of Izvestia from the courtroom.

The prosecutor asked to recognize the chief physician of the maternity hospital, Elena Belaya, accused of organizing the murder of a baby, and the anesthesiologist-resuscitator of the regional perinatal center, Elina Sushkevich, accused of his murder, and to impose sentences of 9.5 and 9 years in a penal colony with a ban on practicing medicine for a period of 3 years.

They were also banned from practicing medicine for three years. In addition, Sushkevich and Belaya were charged 171 thousand rubles for court costs. The court fully satisfied the victim's civil claim for compensation for moral damage, collecting 1 million rubles each from both doctors.

The defendants pleaded not guilty. The defense team disagreed with the verdict of the jury.

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In November 2018, a woman was admitted to maternity hospital No. 4 in Kaliningrad, who gave birth to a boy weighing about 700 g at an extremely early stage of pregnancy. The Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation has established that Belaya and Sushkevich decided to kill the child in order not to spoil the statistics.

It was later reported that an expensive drug was needed to maintain the baby's vital functions, and Belaya allegedly decided not to waste the resources of the maternity hospital. The investigation believed that she had instructed the baby to be given a dose of magnesium sulfate, and to write in the birth history that the child was stillborn. The doctors did not admit their guilt.

In December 2020, the Kaliningrad Regional Court acquitted the doctors. At the same time, the UK stated that their guilt had been proven. The prosecutor's office appealed the decision, and in May 2021, the court overturned the acquittal of Belaya and Sushkevich.

Then, in September 2022, the Moscow Regional Court sentenced Belaya and Sushkevich to 9.5 years and 9 years in prison, respectively. They were also banned from practicing medicine for a period of three years. In December 2023, the Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeals against the doctors' verdict. Later, on October 2, 2024, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation sent the case for reconsideration, leaving the doctors in custody.

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