The Yekaterinburg Garrison Military Court sentenced Alexander Naumov, the guardian of a six-year-old Daler Bobiyev, the son of a migrant from Tajikistan, to five years in a general-regime colony. Daler was placed in the care of the Naumov family after his father, Khudjanoviddin Bobiyev, a citizen of Tajikistan, was convicted in Russia for theft.
The court found Alexander Naumov, former participants of the so-called “special military operation” (SVO), guilty of torturing a minor with particular cruelty (Article 117 (2) of the Russian Criminal Code), E1.RU reports. The verdict was handed down on September 27.
Witnesses at the trial testified that Naumov repeatedly tied the child to a chair with tape and deprived him of food for extended periods. Due to the abuse, the boy attempted to run away from home several times.
Despite the witness testimonies, Naumov did not admit his guilt and disagreed with the verdict. He claimed that until June 2023, he had been participating in Russia's military actions in Ukraine and could not have been involved in the boy’s abuse. However, according to SOTAvision, Naumov had returned home on leave during the winter and could not have failed to notice the boy's disappearance.
Before the sentencing, Naumov told journalists that if he were sent to the penal colony, he would request to return to the “special military operation” (the war in Ukraine).
On June 26, 2023, Naumov's wife, Veronika, reported the boy missing, emphasizing that he had run away from home before. Hundreds of local residents joined the search. On June 29, Daler's body was found in a bag near the guardians' home. It was later revealed that the boy had been killed back in December 2022, and Naumov claimed he had not been in the garage or seen the bag containing the boy’s body.
Meanwhile, the trial of Naumov’s wife, Veronika Naumova, and her 21-year-old nephew, Daniil Egolnikov, is going on, according to 66.RU. The prosecutor's office stated that the child had been drowned after his legs were taped and he was beaten. According to investigators, Naumova coerced Egolnikov into committing these crimes by threatening to throw him out of the house.
Both are charged with, among other things, the murder of the child with particular cruelty and on grounds of ethnic hatred, intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, abuse of the victim, illegal deprivation of the child’s freedom, and involving the child in committing a serious crime through threats and fraud when receiving benefits.
