Three children of Yekaterinburg resident Veronika Naumova, accused of murdering her adopted son, will be given to her husband, who returned from the war in Ukraine. The man himself spoke about this in an interview with KP Ural.
The man's name has not been released. He returned to Yekaterinburg after the news of the missing child. He reported that investigators had interrogated him, but he did not know his procedural status. He said that only his own children would be returned to him, and the adopted ones, apparently, would be sent to an orphanage.
According to the military, he did not know that the boy had died in early December 2022. After the disappearance of the child, the military man came home for several days, but allegedly did not suspect anything, because his wife said the boy was with her friend. When asked if the child really had mental disabilities, according to the mother, the man said that he “did not pay attention to it,” because he was very rarely at home.
Veronika Naumova was previously arrested on charges of murdering and torturing 6-year-old Daler. On June 26, she reported the disappearance of the boy, but two days later admitted that the child was dead and she hid his body in the garage. The cause of the child's death is still unknown. At first it was reported that, according to his mother, he accidentally drowned in the bathtub, and she got scared and hid the body.
However, KP writes, citing a source close to the investigation, that according to one version, the mother beat the child with a shoe spoon. The husband, in an interview with the publication, said that he did not believe in such a method of reprisal: “This spoon was seized. But if she had been beaten to death, then there would have been abrasions or a cut. The bones of the child are small, fragile.
The woman is also accused of fraud, because by hiding the death of a child, she continued to receive payments for him. For custody of Daler, the family received a little more than 11 thousand rubles a month. The woman's husband says that she did not adopt children for selfish reasons: “I wanted to help the children. There is no financial benefit here. Have you seen what the payouts are? Is that big money?
On the day the boy's body was found, more than a thousand residents of Yekaterinburg gathered to honor his memory. To the house where he lived, and the garage where his body lay, people brought toys, candles and notes.